Wine nights and bathing

The codifications of Code d’ Odalisque are quite detailed. This is because as well as defining the odalisque and setting out her rights and obligations, the Code also sets out to create a “Code culture” featuring many aspects of historical odalisque slavery. For example, the Code describes the Slavekeeper’s play room, his saray, and establishes points of etiquette designed to create a sumptuous, civilized and luxurious style of sexual slave play. The Code also describes two venues or occasions for slave play: the wine night and the bath.

A typical slave-play event in Code is the wine night. The Slavemaster might invite guests or he might be alone, but either way he spends the evening in his saray enjoying “wine”. It is an evening of relaxation. The odalisque, in this context, acts as wine attendant. She is an naked ornament to the evening as well as serving wine for her Master and his guests. The evening will usually culminate in the unbridled sexual enjoyment of the slave.

The other occasion for slave play is the bath. The slave is then his bath attendant. Baths, showers, saunas, spas – the luxuriant use of water for hedonistic enjoyment. The Slavekeeper will bathe with his slave and after she has pampered him – soaps, sponges, brushes - he will enjoy her as he wills.

In the historical cultures where an odalisque slavery was once a reality wine and water were luxuries. In the case of wine, in fact, it was often a forbidden joy. Water was a symbol of prosperity and wealth. The Code includes these elements of tradition in its modern construction of a (consensual) Code culture.