Themes of Transgression

Many themes in BDSM are transgressive – they are based in acts of transgression. For example, many BDSM sex games involve simulated rape. Rape is transgression, and yet consenting adults can turn it into a “make believe” game. Many BDSM activities violate societal norms and make play out of things that society regards as trangressions, as criminal. In BDSM a man might tie up his partner and whip her. If a man flogs a woman like this in real life, it is criminal assault. But if he does it with her consent, it’s a S & M fantasy sex game. It is consent that makes it play. Consenting adults turn it into a game of transgression.

Code d’ Odalisque is founded upon (and makes play out of) the transgressive acts of abduction and imprisonment. An odalisque is a captive sex slave. Her Master keeps her as a helpless captive in order to use her for sex. Such things happen in real life, in which case they are highly criminal, transgressive acts. From time to time we hear news reports where a man has taken a woman captive, kept her imprisoned in his basement and has used her as a sexual object. Code d’ Odalisque takes this scenario and, through consent, turns it into a fantasy sex game.

Much as we all like to deny it, transgressive acts have a fascination that renders them “sexy”. We all have a dark side. When we hear reports of men abducting women and using them as sexual slaves, we are rightly horrified and want the transgressor punished. But there is a secret dark corner of the psyche in which we are fascinated and enticed by such acts. Men will be secretly tantalized by the fantasy of taking a woman captive and using her as a sex toy. And women will be secretly allured by such an ordeal. Many women have secret abduction and sex-slave fantasies. Transgressors – criminals – are individuals who cannot properly distinguish between fantasy and reality. In Code d’ Odalisque the fantasy of the captive sex slave is carefully controlled, defined and structured.

But we should not forget that – at root – Code d’ Ode is a transgression fantasy game. The trangression scenario is:

A perverse sex fiend kidnaps a beautiful woman and keeps her as a naked captive for his unrestrained sexual use.

If you don’t find this scenario enticing, if you don’t find this scenario sexy – despite your knowing that the reality of such a scenario is horrifying and criminal - then Code d’ Odalisque is not likely to appeal to you. Finally, it is an abduction sex-slave game.

As a way of underlining the play of it, Code d’ Ode looks to romantic, historical scenarios from days of yore when pirates and slavetraders roamed the seas and abducted women to serve as sex slaves in the harems of the old orient.

Of course, kidnapping a woman against her will and using her as a sex slave is a monstrous act of criminal violation. And yet, it is a violation that appeals to something dark and irrepressible within us. Code d’ Ode is a controlled exploration of this violation in a regulated framework of safety, legality and consent.

Men who can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality should not be involved in Code d’ Odalisque.