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Vow of Devotion (Repost)

5.9. - Vow of Devotion

Once she is bound and washed an odalisque is required to make a Vow of Devotion under threat of the sword. She shall be held forcibly, made to kneel and forced to expose the back of her neck to a sword wielded by whatever man is officiating. The position of kneeling, head forward and down and with the back of the neck exposed is the essential physical pose illustrating the cockslave's submission.

When a freewoman consents to enter life as an odalisque she makes a Vow of Devotion. This is usually done “under the sword”. The woman is naked on her hands and knees, her hair thrown forward, head down, the nape of her neck exposed. The Slavetrader (or the man presiding) places the cold steel of his sword on the back of her neck in an implicit threat of beheading. In this position he makes her give her Vow of Devotion. This consists of a series of assertions. The Trader says to her:

“Say: I am a cock slave!”

In response the woman says, “I am a cockslave”

The Trader says:

“Say: I am a cunt to be fucked!”

In response the woman says, “I am a cunt to be fucked!”

And so on.

Code d’ Odalisque includes a generic Vow of Devotion that can be used, but players should feel free to write their own Vow and to make it a creative feature of the woman’s initiation into the odalisque’s life.

These same Vows can also be included in later sessions of training or play. From time to time it is advisable to make a slave repeat her Vow of Devotion. It will remind her of her initiation (discalcing).

The intention of the Vow, it should be noted, is to dedicate the woman to cockworship – for this is what defines an odalisque and what sets her apart from other slaves. An odalisque is dedicated to serving male sexuality, and specifically phallic sexuality. She makes a vow to serve and worship cock. That is, she swears to be a sexual slave, serving male (phallic) sex, a cockslave. This is what makes her an odalisque. An odalisque is sworn to cockworship, and she does this through her Vow of Devotion. Article 5.11 of the Code explains:

5.11. - Intent of the Vow of Devotion

The intent and purpose of the odalisque's Vow of Devotion is to pledge herself to Cock Worship and devotion and service to the Phallus and to obedience to the men who are placed over her. It is the Vow of Devotion, above all, that makes her a sexual slave as distinct from any other type of slave.

The Red Rose in Thorns (excerpts)

Excerpts from The Red Rose in Thorns illustrating various aspects of Code d' Odalisque:

Methods of punishment

An odalisque is protected from cruel punishments and pain. She is not a pain slave. She is spared from the whip and the paddle in order to have her beauty preserved and in order for her to be dedicated to the arts of pleasure. How then is she disciplined? How does a Slavekeeper or a Slavetrainer instil good behaviour into her? How is she trained? How is she punished when she misbehaves?

Code d' Odalisque sets out recommended modes of punishment, as follows:

19.2. - Recommended modes of punishment

The recommended modes of punishment set by this Code and those employed in normal circumstances are:

(a) bondage - to remind the slave of her helplessness
(b) caging - to remind the slave of her captivity
(c) solitary confinement - to remind the slave of her captivity.
(d) silence - to remind the slave of her passive role
(e) holding positions - to teach the slave obedience
(f) chanting - to remind the slave of her purpose.

Note that each of them has a purpose. In each case, the punishment is designed to reinforce some aspect of slavery and to teach and improve the slave. Punishment is not for its own sake. In some forms of BDSM the punishment of slaves becomes the focus of play itself. The centre of play becomes the dungeon and the punishment of the slave is the action. In Code d' Odalisque, this is not the case. Ideally, a slave does not need to be punished very often, and when she does it is always with a view to correcting her behaviour.

There is, all the same, a great deal of latitude in this. The Code specifically forbids some types of punishment - for example, a Master cannot cut his slave's hair to punish her - and it recommends types of punishment, but there is scope for a Master or Trainer to devise methods suitable to his slaves. Like all aspects of odalisque slavery, there are broad parameters but within that it is always a creative endeavour. How a slave is punished for her failings, omissions and misdemeanours is a matter of creative slave play. 

The Non-Sadomasochistic alternative

The original impetus for Code d' Odalisque came from women who, while sexually submissive, did not want to be subject to sadomasochism. This is the main characteristic of Code d' Ode: it offers slave play without SM. Recent contacts reiterate that this is still the main motivation behind people who are interested in this style of slave play; they are looking for fem sub play without SM. While true odalisques are rare, and it is hard to find women who are suited to the odalisque lifestyle, it is surprising just how common it is to find women who are in the submissive-but-no-SM category. It is a very common sexual orientation. Remarkably, it is not well catered for.

This fact was illustrated to us recently when, in the company of several young (and not so young) women, we were looking for female submissive erotica on-line. It is a simple experiment. Open google and search images for search strings such as "female submissive sex." You will find that such searches yield a high proportion of images such as this:

Search results for "female submissive sex" yield very few images of female submissives having sex and quite a lot of images of women having their nipples tortured or their backs flogged raw with a cat-of-nine-tails. It raises the question: since when is this sex? Obviously there are people who find such images stimulating and presumably they get aroused by them - which is fine. But the women who were perusing this material with us found it quite the opposite. I paraphrase, but one of them put it like this:

That is exactly the problem! I'm a submissive, but I don't want to be treated like this. When I say I'm a submissive, I mean a sexual submissive. I like to be used for pleasure. But as soon as I say I'm a female sub, guys and so-called "doms" think I'm saying that I want to be tortured and beaten and spat on. That's not my idea of submissive!

The other ladies all agreed. They all described themselves as "submissive" but they all found these images a turn off. Why, it must be asked, does a search string like "female submissive sex" turn up hundreds of images of pain maids? Why is there so little content concerning submissive females who are not into pain? Why should the word "submissive" be synonymous with sadomasochism? 

Code d' Odalisque offers female submissives a clear alternative. It is a different mode of slave play that draws upon different traditions of slavery. It is essentially hedonistic, devoted to sexual pleasure, rather than to "power exchange". It is essentially non-sadomasochistic; an odalisque is regarded as a creature of beauty and is protected from abuse and violence. Instead, an odalisque is a female sexual servant - not a pain slave. It is a defining feature of odalisque slavery. It is about pleasure, not pain.