The importance of charity

Code d'Odalisque works against forced prostitution

One of the unique features of Code d' Odalisque is that it codifies an ethos of charity and compassion into what is otherwise an entirely hedonistic culture of self-indulgence. Odalisque slave play under Code d' Ode is about sex, pleasure and captivity - but always in a safe, legal and consensual framework. Consensual slavery is post-slavery slavery. In the modern world the institution of historical slavery has been abolished. Only consensual slavery - as a mode of reverence and submission - remains. 

An important part of this under Code d' Odalisque is an active sense of charity directed at combatting the remnants of historical slavery and especially the sexual abuse of women and girls. The sad fact is that women and girls in many parts of the world are still used as sexual slaves or, more correctly, are lured into forced prostitution. This is an inhuman and barbaric trade that has no place in the modern world. The revival of odalisque slavery on a consensual basis under the Code acknowledges this fact and seeks to counter it. People who indulge in consensual sex-slave play ought to have a keen awareness that there remains non-consensual sex slavery today and they should denounce it and work against it. Eradicating non-consensual slavery is a noble cause. 

When a woman is taken as a (consenting) odalisque by a Master, she is "purchased". This takes the form of a donation given to an appropriate charity. Under the Code, the "slave price" is said to be "commuted to alms". For legal purposes, no money ever changes hands between players. It is, of course, illegal to actually buy and sell people. Instead, there is a play sale of the slave. Her Master pays a small sum of money to a charity and this suffices as the "slave price". The Code includes details of the formal steps by which this is done. The slavewoman decides what charity will benefit from the donation and the Slavekeeper decides how much he will donate. All donations are directed at campaigns to eradicate forced position and related abuses against women and girls. 

Charity is an important part of Code d' Odalisque culture. Code culture is luxurious, decadent, debauched, hedonistic - but this is off-set by a genuine concern for the plight of women and girls who are suffering under forced prostitution. There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of women and girls in this situation today - even in so-called Western countries. While Code d' Odalisque may be an exercise in sexual self-indulgence for all involved, it is not without conscience. The Code seeks to build a civilized, urbane institution of consensual slavery in a fully post-slavery world.