Heterosexual? (Repost)

We receive many email comments from people with gay or bisexual preferences as to why Code d’ Ode is presented as a purely heterosexual adult “game”. Is there room in it for other sexual preferences? they ask.

The answer is that in its present form - and following directly from its historical precedents - Code d’ Ode is resoundingly hetero and unashamedly celebrates male/female sexual desire. It follows quite traditional forms. It is hetero and it is male dom. There is nothing to prevent others from adapting it to other sexual preferences but in its present form it reflects the orientation and interests of the people who wrote the Code, as well as the traditions of the historical institution of ‘odalisque’.

We hasten to add that just because the Code in its present form is hetero, this does not mean it is anti-homo. Each to their own. There is a lively gay Master/slave community to service the needs of gay subs and doms. Code d’ Odalisque is designed to offer another alternative, and it has the specific aim of offering hetero sub women a non-violent alternative to the dominant styles of BDSM. It has a mission to such women. It is very consciously and deliberately based around reviving the institution of female odalisque. If others would like to extend it into homosexual forms, all the best to them.

It should also be said that the driving force behind Code play is COCKWORSHIP and as this is understood in Code d’ Ode it is essentially a female’s love of and fascination for the phallus. This love and fascination has to do with the cock as OTHER to the feminine, and so, by definition, only a female (a non-male) can experience this. A woman can NEVER know what it is like to have a cock. The phallus must ALWAYS seem strange and ‘other’ to her in a way that is not true of a man who does know what having a cock is like. That is to say, cocks are not such strange and remote objects to men because they have one. But they are necessarily strange and remote objects to women who have no first-hand understanding of what it is like to be a phallic being (man).

It follows that - as it is conceived in Code d’ Ode - a man is not really capable of true cockworship. The fulcrum of worship is the strange OTHERNESS of cock to the female, and a man is not capable of it because cock is not Other to him. In Code d’ Ode a woman worships cock because it is everything she is not. No man can say this about himself and so cannot really worship in the sense understood in Code d’ Ode.

No doubt lots of gay guys will disagree and claim that they fully worship cock. But that is a different thing, a different mode of worship. The cock is SELF to man. It is only to woman that it is forever OTHER. The proper response to COCK by a cockslave is to become CUNT, to make herself a cunt to be fucked and used. Again, a man cannot do this - he doesn’t have a cunt. That is the physical reality. We make no apology for asserting that COCK and CUNT are a matching set.

Despite this very hetero orientation, there is plenty of room in Code d’ Ode for same-sex play if that is what players are into. A woman may specialize in bi-sex play as an ambiphiline, in order to satisfy the male lesbian fantasy. And there is nothing stopping a Slavekeeper being bisexual and to include M/M play into his orgia. There is nothing homophobic about Code d’ Ode’s heterosexual orientation. If players want to introduce same-sex play - it certainly extends the range of sexual possibilities to explore! - then there is nothing in Code d’ Odalisque to prevent it.

In the first instance, though, Code d’ Ode is for cunt crazy males and cock crazy women. The motive force of play is the Slavekeeper’s pursuit of phallic pleasure and the slave’s devoted worship of mysterious COCK.