Feeding an odalisque

Code d’ Odalisque states:

10.46. - Quality of food

An odalisque shall be given the same quality of food as her Keeper eats, served with utensils, and shall not be made to eat like an animal. 

These are the only guidelines on this issue. An odalisque shall be as well fed as her Master and she shall not be made to eat like an animal.

In many more standard Master/slave relationships slaves are fed inferior quality food while they must watch their Master enjoy fine cuisine. This is a device to underline the slave’s subservience and low status. Moreover, the slave may be deprived of utensils and might be made to eat out of a dog bowl or off the floor like an animal. This is not permitted under Code d’ Odalisque. A memlook (low slave) may be treated in this way, but not an odalisque. An odalisque is a special type of slave with a special status. She must be fed decent food and is entitled to the dignity of utensils.

What type of food? This is decided by the Slavekeeper. It need not be the same food as he eats, but it must be of the same quality. He can’t eat chicken and champagne and feed his odalisque grits, or cook fresh meals for himself but cheap microwave meals for his odalisque. But there are no indications in the Code as to types of food. Note, however, the following article:

1.30. - Physical health

This code promotes a culture of physical health, elegance and beauty, luxury tempered with taste, debauchery with refinement. All players are encouraged to keep physically healthy, to eat well and exercise and to understand that good general physical condition is the key to potent libido. 

Code d’ Ode is about luxury and opulence. It is therefore about the fine things in life, including fine foods. But it is also necessarily about health because, as the Code says, “good general physical condition is the key to potent libido.” Accordingly, good, healthy food should be the staple of an odalisque’s diet and goes hand in hand with appropriate exercise. An odalisques is not to laze around getting obese on chocolates. She should be maintained in a healthy lifestyle where vitality and fitness are valued because they enhance sex-drive and libido. Health is an adjunct to sexuality. An odalisque is kept healthy because her role is sexual and good health is conductive to good sex.

There is also the skin of the slave to keep in mind. Note the following article:

24.18. - Attending to skin care

An odalisque shall attend to the health and care of her skin and adopt a diet and regime that has healthy skin, free of blemishes, as its objective. 

An odalisque is (essentially) naked. It is important that her skin is healthy. If she eats poorly and gets no exercise her skin – an organ of elimination – will develop spots, pimples and blemishes. To avoid this, and as a part of her skin care, an odalisque should eat fresh, healthy food (avoiding fatty, greasy foods) and also drink plenty of fluids. Foods that tax the liver place extra demands upon the skin. A clear, healthy skin is achieved not only by bathing and excoriating and the use of appropriate skin care products, it begins with diet. Odalisques are fed well, but always with an eye to general physical health and healthy skin. If an odalisque keeps breaking out in spots, blemishes and pimples it is usually an indication that she needs a cleaner, healthier diet and should drink more water.

A final consideration is the odor of certain foods. Strong foods can taint the breath and the perspiration of a slave and cause flatulence and body odor. Usually it is best if the diet of an odalisque is mildly spiced rather than full of hot, spicy or garlicky foods.