Code d’ Ode is not only about erotic indulgence. It is also about raising money for relevant charities. Decadence and indulgence - with an ethical side.
Charity, like generosity, is an important value in Code d’ Odalisque. The decadence and luxury of Code play is balanced by an ethos of charity directed against all forms of non-consensual slavery, chattel slavery and forced prostitution. Those who are wealthy enough to enjoy the services of an odalisque have an obligation to those less fortunate. Code d’ Ode is about a civilized, consensual form of slavery, and stands opposed in principle and practice to archaic and barbaric forms of slavery. It would be indecent and insensitive to indulge in a sex-slave lifestyle and swedx-slave games and not acknowledge that there are thousands of women and girls subject to real slavery today. Charity in Code d’ Ode works to help those unfortunate women.
The Code includes regulations for a simulated slave market. Money from this – the slaveprice – is commuted to alms and given to an appropriate charity. The idea is that when people indulge in consensual sex slave play they should at least spare a thought for – and make a donation towards helping – all those women in the world today living under conditions of actual sex slavery, forced to be involved in an illegal, violent sex trade.
Basically, the system works in this way:
*An odalisque must be purchased. She is not for hire like a whore or taken free like a slut. When a man takes an odalisque he must pay for her.
*This is done by “commuting the slaveprice to alms..” In practice, the Slavekeeper makes a donation to an appropriate charity.
*The slave is graded and valued. The slaveprice is worked out in terms of a fictional currency for play purposes only.
*A charity is nominated by the slavewoman. It should be a charity devoted to eradicating forced prostitution, human trafficking, child prostitution, etc.
*The Slavekeeper makes a donation to that charity. He determines the size of the donation. He “commutes the slaveprice to alms…” He makes an anonymous donation to the charity. He is not obliged to reveal the amount to the slave.
*Once the alms has been paid, the transaction is complete and the Slavekeeper thereafter “owns” his odalisque. He has satisfied the slaveprice by commuting it to alms.
Similarly, the provisions of slave auctions under Code d’ Odalisque direct the slaveprice to alms as a way of raising money for appropriate charities.
It is important to note that at no point does any money change hands between players. The only transaction that takes place is that the Slavekeeper, of his own accord, makes a donation to a charity. The slavemarket in Code d’ Odalisque is entirely simulated. Through almsgiving, the consensual sex slavery of Code d’ Odalisque works to help those who are victims of non-consensual sex slavery.
1.27. - Charity
The more advanced the slavekeeping culture the more slavekeeping is moderated by institutions of charity and almsgiving and regulated as a luxury to be turned to socially beneficial ends.
The socially beneficial end in Code d' Odalisque is the fight against human trafficking. Consensual slavery is against non-consensual slavery. This is another device that underlines the principles of Code d' Ode: CONSENT, SAFETY, LEGALITY.
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