Answer: Yes, high heels are sexy. They come in and out of fashion but in contemporary Western society they are persistently associated with sexiness. The root of this seems to be because they denote an element of female submission. A woman in high heels is relatively immobile. She can’t easily run away. High heels are restrictive in this way. By extension, high heels are a sign of sexual availability. If a woman can’t easily run away, she is therefore available, easy prey. Such associations explain why high heels are common attire for prostitutes and why they also feature in soft and hard pornography. High heels are associated with prostitutes because they signal availability. In porn women will often be seen stark naked but wearing ridiculously tall high heels or platforms. These signal that she can’t walk away. They restrict her mobility. She is going nowhere.
For the same reason, high heels have been historically worn by concubines and other submissive women. Unwieldly, impractical and awkward footwear prevents a submissive woman from moving around with ease. There is some evidence that odalisques in the Ottoman Empire sometimes wore platform shoes as a restrictive type of footwear.
In Code d’ Ode, however, odalisques are barefoot. Barefoot and naked. In this case it is the lack of clothing and footwear that acts to restrict her movement. Without shoes and clothes an odalisque cannot go far. Some men find barefooted women sexually attractive; bare feet are a sexual signal. In that case, bare feet signal helplessness, submission, immobility. This is the case in Code ‘ Ode. That is, in Code d’ Ode, the barefootedness of the slave – rather than any particular restrictive footwear – is the mode of restriction. Barefeet, too, are emblematic of submission. Indeed, in Code d’ Ode, freewomen wear shoes, slaves do not. Shoes in general are a sign of the freewoman, of mobility. In this context, high heels are seen as signifying the sexually lose freewoman, the slut.
The parameters of slave play in Code d’ Odalisque are defined by contrasts and distinctions between (1) the slave, (2) the slut and (3) the whore. Sluts and whores, of course, are both freewomen. Sluts give sex away free. Whores are for hire. Slaves are neither sluts nor whores. In Code d’ Ode slave play it is important to maintain these careful distinctions. It is important, for example, not to treat a slave as a whore. This includes not dressing her like a whore. Slaves should not be dressed up as prostitutes.
For these reasons, slaves – under Code d’ Ode – should not wear high heels. Shoes in general are a mark of a freewoman. Slaves are naked and barefoot. And high heels are a mark of either the whore or the slut – the sexually available freewoman. High heels are sexy, yes, but it is the sexiness of the whore or the slut. Whores and sluts are sexy, of course. But they should not be confused with slaves. Code d’ Ode is about slaves. A slave is not a whore or a slut. If you want to enjoy the sexiness of women in high heels, do so with a whore or a slut. But it is inappropriate for an odalisque. Similarly, an odalisque is not a worker; women dressed as French maids are sexy too, but it is wrong to dress an odalisque in this way because it is important to maintain the distinction between odalisque and domestic worker (or low slave, memlook.)
There are some types of attire and some types of fantasy play that are inappropriate for odalisques. High heels are not for odalisques. They signal the sexually available freewoman instead. Sexy, yes, but not part of slave play.
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