Contract

A BRIEF GUIDE TO CONTRACT

Code d' Odalisque offers a framework of quasi-legal contract in which contemporary couples may play Master/slave lifestyle and games. Here is a summary of some simple principles of contract:

ALL CONTRACTS MUST BE SIGNED BY THREE PARTIES

1. When a cockslave enters slavery she signs a general CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION. This sets the broad parameters of her slavery.

2. A cockslave may make a PLEA FOR MERCY at any time after making her CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION. A Plea for Mercy is a contract that makes more exact and specific limits than the Contract of Submission.

3. A CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION cannot be modified once it is signed.

4. A PLEA FOR MERCY always rules over a CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION. A recent PLEA FOR MERCY rules over all prior ones.

5. Another recognized licit contract in Code d' Ode is the RELEASE FOR TRAINING by which a Slavekeeper releases his slave to a Slavetrainer for particular and specified training.

The important distinction is between a CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION and a PLEA FOR MERCY.

CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION = a general statement of sexual submission made by the slave at the beginning of her slavery. It is a fixed contract that has forced throughout the whole duration of her erotic slavery, regardless of to which Master she may belong. It sets out what are sometimes called her "hard limits".

PLEA FOR MERCY = a more specific contract that sets the slaves limits in particular scenes or for particular occasions. A slave will usually make a PLEA FOR MERCY to her new Slavekeeper when she is first purchased.

A slave makes a CONTRACT OF SUBMISSION to a Slavetrader.

A slave makes a PLEA FOR MERCY to her Slavemaster (Slavekeeper) or others placed in charge of her.

A further recognized type of contract is the PROMISE OF PEARLS made by a Slavemaster to his slave. In this document a Slavemaster will make a written promise to present his slave with black pearls if she completes the list of Ordeals itemized in the written contract. A PROMISE OF PEARLS is a Table of Ordeals where the Master sets out what he wants the slave to do in order to win her pearls. The slave must consent to the articles of the written PROMISE OF PEARLS, i.e. her program of Ordeals.

Formal Requirements

For a contract to be licit in Code d' Ode it must be signed by three parties. This is the minimum requirement. A contract signed by only the Slavekeeper and the slave has no force.

A further formal requirement is that all contracts must conclude with the words, clearly visible in upper case: CONSENT. SAFETY. LEGALITY. The signatories to the contract must sign their names directly under these words.

Code d' Ode seeks to make these firm standards of contractual practice in consensual erotic slavery. Current practice is ad hoc.

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Contract of Submission

5.1. - The Contract of Submission

Upon entering slavery a freewoman shall be required to sign a general Contract of Submission specifying the terms, conditions and duration of her slavery. Her commitment to be a sexual servant is aside from her commitment to any particular Keeper. Her Contract of Submission is separate to any written agreement she may have with any particular Keeper.

When a freewoman determines to become an odalisque she should compose a document called a 'Contract of Submission'. This is a general statement about the fact and nature of her slavery. It should formally declare her consent, and it should set out the terms and duration of her submission to sexual service. In particular, it should set out her HARD LIMITS - it should clearly state where her boundaries are.

A Contract of Submission is made independent of any particular Master. Rather, the woman should simply ask herself, why sort of slave do I want to be? and she should then compose a short written statement setting it out in plain words. It should be something she composes herself. There is an example given in Code d' Odalisque, Article 5.5.

Once it is made the Contract of Submission cannot be changed. But it can be modified in effect by a separate document called a 'Plea for Mercy.' A Plea for Mercy can be made at any trime and it has force over and above the slave's Contract of Submission.

For example, let us suppose a freewoman decides to become an odalisque. She therefore writes a Contract of Submission. But then she is purchased by a new Master and he wants her to engage in golden showers (urine play). Her Contract of Submission does not say anything about it. So, she writes a Plea for Mercy asking her Master to spare her from golden showers, because she doesn't like it and really doesn't want it to be part of her sexual servitude. The Plea for Mercy modifies (and overrules) the Contract of Submission.

A Contract of Submission may be poetic as well as factual. It may be a statement of how a woman feels about her role as odalisque. It is, in any case, a personal statement. It is quite general in scope. Specific situations can be dealt with by a Plea for Mercy.