The Odella

One of the privileges enjoyed by an odalisque is that she is entitled to her own quarters. This is not true of low slaves (memlooks). Memlooks may be made to sleep anywhere: they have no bedroom of their own. An odalisque, however, must have her own room, officially called her "odella". It is at once her bedroom and her prison. Ordinarily, an odalisque will spend a lot of time in her odella. She remains there until she is needed by her Master, or until she is otherwise given permission to leave.

The ambience of an odella should not be dank and grungy. Rather it should be sensuous and evoke pleasure and sensuality. It should be well heated and well ventilated. At the same time, it should be private. This is very important. An odalisque should be hidden and kept away from the prying eyes of the world. An odella need not be big, but it should also be more than a converted cupboard. Usually, an existing bedroom can be adapted to the purpose. Paint. Redecorate. Black out the windows. Hang heavy velvet drapes and lace features. Install a modern heating unit. A bed. A bedside table. A small bookshelf. A writing desk. Floor pillows. Rugs. Other things such as a TV or a laptop computer may be provided subject to the generosity of the Slavekeeper.

An important point regarding an odella, under the provisions and protocols of Code d' Odalisque, is that it is not an arena for sex. A Slavekeeper has his own room dedicated to that: his "saray". A saray is a Slavekeeper's playroom, and it is the natural centre of sexual activity. Under the Code, the slave's odella is not a place for sex; it is the slave's retreat. When her Master wants to use her, he calls her from her odella and takes her to his saray or elsewhere.

Accordingly, there is no need to put sexual devices or sex-appropriate furnishings in an odella. A saray will usually feature chairs, beds, benches or divans specifically for the purposes of assisting with sex. There is no need for such considerations when decorating the odella. There should be the bed - it need only be a single bed - along with basic comforts. The odalisque goes naked (most of the time) so there is also no need for wardrobes and storage for clothes. Some attention should be given to surfaces: soft surfaces, silks, cotton etc. are best.

Since the odalisque is naked (or nearly so) most of the time, it is important to have good thermal control of the odella. It should be well insulated with no draughts. It should be possible to regulate the temperature in the odella to keep it at a comfortable temperature for the slave. (Most people find a temperature around 78 deg. F. is comfortable when naked.)

It is highly desirable for an odella to have its own en suite. Bathing and grooming are important odalisque activities. An odalisque needs good bathing facilities. The provision of a decent odella, suitably heated, and good bathing facilities are among the costs incurred by the gentleman who would own an odalisque.

Sexual Creativity

The whole purpose of Code d’ Odalisque is to provide a framework for creative (male dominant) sexuality. The only reason a man might need an odalisque is because he wants to use her for the exploration of sexual pleasure. The odalisque puts herself at the disposal of a man – her Master – so that he can use her for sexual experimentation. If all a man wants is regular missionary sex, he doesn’t need an odalisque. An odalisque provides him with an opportunity to explore beyond the usual, to taste new pleasures. That is what an odalisque is for. Code d’ Odalisque is an erotic adventure, an arena for sexual creativity.

One problem with this is that the contemporary male is often very short on creativity. This is largely because the contemporary erotic imagination is almost entirely shaped by pornography. Code d’ Ode is for highly sexual men – highly sexual men today are almost certain to be regular purveyors of pornography. As we all know, the internet is saturated with pornography; it has never been more readily available, and huge numbers of men (and women) enjoy watching it. Porn is big, big business. And it shapes contemporary erotic behaviour. This is a well-established fact, backed up by numerous studies. Increasingly, husbands want their wives to do things they’ve seen done in porn movies. Often, customers of prostitutes will open their laptops to show a porn flick and ask “Will you do that?”

This can both stimulate but also deaden sexual creativity. Porn offers men a pool of new ideas. But also porn is, after all, a confection; it is (usually) staged sex and therefore contrived and formulaic. Porn exposes the wide variety of human sexual behaviour, but it is also true that nine out of ten porn movies are entirely predictable and are anything but creative. Your typical porn flick follows a basic pattern. Girl sucks dick. Guy fucks her butthole. Guy cums on her face. And variations thereupon. This is why porn gets awfully boring after a while and why the thrill of it wears off. Most films follow standard formulae. Seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all.

It is important for Slavekeepers who are blessed with the services of a willing odalisque to realise that an odalisque is not a pornstar. A Slavekeeper should not treat his odalisque as if she is his private pornstar. And he should look beyond porn for inspiration and ideas as to how to enjoy her. Slavekeepers should ask themselves, ‘To what extent is my sexual imagination being shaped by pornography?’ It is all very well to enjoy porn and to find new ideas and stimulation in porn, but a Slavekeeper should not let it control his sexual imagination and his erotic response. Rather, he should look into his own inner resources for his sexual imagination. He should shape his own sexual creativity.

An odalisque is raw material, putty in a Slavekeeper’s hands. Within the limits set by her Contract of Submission and by the slave Code, she is his to use and enjoy. It would be a waste to use such a treasure to merely replay scenes in common porn flicks. A Keeper should be more creative than that. Slave play should rise above the level of porn. For a Slavekeeper, owning a willing odalisque is a chance for deep, honest self-exploration, a chance for a man to explore the wide dimensions and subtle pleasures of the erotic. Porn offers erotic clichés. The challenge for gentlemen involved in odalisque slavery is to bring a new spirit of real sexual creativity to a contemporary sensibility increasingly saturated and deadened with porn.

Night devotions (repost)

One of the erotic practices included in Code d’ Odalisque as one of the arts of the odalisque is called “night devotions” or “nightly devotions” or just “devotions”. It is so called because it consists of an act of cockworship. The odalisque engages in a prolonged, slow oral caressing of her Master’s phallus (in worship) – but she does this while he is asleep. It is performed as follows:

The odalisque waits until very late at night (say, 3am) when she is sure her Master is sound asleep. Deep sleep.

She tip-toes to his bed and very, very slowly obtains a position where she can caress his cock without waking him (usually with her head under the covers).

She caresses his cock with her mouth and tongue very, very slowly and carefully. The objective is to keep the cock erect without waking him up.

This takes considerable sensitivity and skill. It is hard to do.

The odalisque fails if she cannot keep his cock erect.
And she fails if she wakes him up.
She also fails if she makes him cum.

Rather, she should try to keep him stimulated – very gently – for a long period while he sleeps.

Ideally, the Master will be brought to the threshold of consciousness and will drift in and out of an awareness of her mouth at work, but he never surfaces into wakefulness.

Done correctly, it delivers to a man delicious dreams. Gentlemen who have enjoyed being subject to the nightly devotions of a skilled cockslave attest that it is an experience of deep delight. It stirs the blood and the imagination. It is good for a man’s libido. For the man, he wants his hormones stirred while sleeping. Over time this will stimulate his imagination. It is Deep Tease. He will bring erotic images, ideas, motifs, from his subconscious life into real play.

But it is important that he not be woken. The slave must lick, kiss, breath on, play with his penis, stirring it to an erection, with precision gentleness. For the slave, it is a time to be devoted to phallic worship, to enjoy the presence of her god. She should think of it as a communion, an act of submission and devotion.

Like other Code d’ Ode techniques, this method distinguishes between the cock and the man. In this case, the cock is awake while the man is asleep. That is what the odalisque tries to achieve. She wants the cock awake but the man asleep.

Try the practice of night devotions. Command your slave:

*You will come to my room very late at night or the early morning when you are sure I am in deep sleep.
*You will engage in cockworship without waking me.
*After a while you can finish and leave (without making me cum).
*You will do this every night unless I tell you otherwise.

Ordinary slaves and odalisques - cockworship

The most important difference between an odalisque and an ordinary consensual slave is that, in odalisque slavery, there is no concentration upon the personality of the Master. This is summed up in the motto: Man is her Master. Cock is her god! She serves her Master and she obeys her Master, but she does nor revere him.

In ordinary consensual slavery it is very common for the slave to become absorbed in the personality of her Master. She loves and trusts her Master with complete and utter devotion. She reveres her Master. Indeed, this is the beauty of consensual slavery. It takes love and trust to deeper levels of submission. The slave is often lost in the aura of her Master, consumed by him. In some cases, Masters ask to be revered and to be treated as demigods.

In both cases, the submission of slavery takes on a religious tendency. Service is worship. The slave is devoted. The emotions involved and the level of submission involved is of religious proportions. For some people, indeed, consensual slavery is regarded as a spiritual lifestyle because slavery is the exercise of reverence and devotion.

In the case of the odalisque, however, her devotion is not fixed upon the person of her Master. This is an all-important distinction. Man is her Master, but he is not her god. Instead, as the motto says, cock is her god. She obeys her Master but it is cock that she loves and reveres. That is, the odalisque worships cock. Odalisque slavery is an arena for cockworship. Phallic worship is its theme.

This is how a Slavekeeper ought to conduct the keeping of his slave. He does not demand to be worshipped. He does not ask or expect to be treated as a god. The slave need not love him even. But she is to love cock. Her Master’s cock and what other cocks he might require her to serve. A Slavekeeper requires that an odalisque is devoted to serving cock. This is what a good odalisque loves to do. She wants to devote herself – her body, her passions – to serving cock. She is obsessed with cock. She is enthralled by cock. A Slavekeeper should deflect his slave’s attention away from his personality and direct it to his cock.

Submission, then, is not synonymous with falling deeper and deeper in love with “Sir”. The urge to be a slave is not rooted in a transcending love a slave has for her Master, as it often is in ordinary consensual slavery. Odalisque slavery is specifically sexual. The emphasis is not on “Sir” but on cock. When a slave is eager for her Master to come home from work in the evening, it is because she longs to serve and please his cock. She wants him to come home and use her sexually. That is what she is for. 

The Importance of Purchase (Repost)

Couples in a Master/slave relationship will usually just agree upon the terms of that relationship or, at most, draw up a contract setting out the terms and limits of play. In Code d' Odalisque there is a contract system, too, but there is also a method by which a slave is “purchased” by a Master.

Needless to say, the real buying and selling of people is completely illegal and it must be stressed that Code d' Ode is a consensual game/lifestyle that in no way condones or legitimizes human trafficking. But for the purposes of slave play a slave is purchased, not taken freely.

This is important and it is one of the things that makes a slave a slave. A slut gives herself away for free. A whore is for rent. But a slave is purchased. Odalisques should be purchased. To take an odalisque for free is to treat her as a common slut and an insult to her. An odalisque should be proud of the fact that she is an odalisque and proud that she was purchased and not taken for free. Every odalisque has a slave price. Odalisque's are expensive items.

But, while the slave price prevails in theory, in practice these days the slave price is routinely commuted to alms. That is, the slaveprice is turned into charity. The requirement of purchase can be met in that way, and in fact this is how it is now done in every case. For legal reasons, no money can change hands. Instead, the slaveprice is converted into charity.

The Code d' Odalisque sets out the provisions for this. The Purchaser (Slavekeeper) must make a donation to a specific charity. This acts as the sale. It is only when he has made such a donation that his ownership and use of an odalisque is legitimate. The appropriate charities are those dedicated to fighting female genital mutilation and forced prostitution. The Slavekeeper makes a donation to the charity – this acts as the slaveprice.

See the Code for details. But it is important to understand the principle. By definition, slaves are purchased. In Code d' Ode we are always careful to distinguish slaves from sluts and whores. It is the slaveprice that makes a slave a true slave and not just a slut or a whore. It is the slaveprice that bestows the dignity of slavehood upon the slave. Odalisque is a noble institution. Paying for an odalisque is an important gesture that recognizes the nobility of the odalisque institution. To fail to pay for the ownership of an odalisque is an abuse and degrades the institution.

Again, gentlemen are urged to grasp the principle and consult the Code for details. Don't treat a slave like a slut.

A slut gives herself away for free. 

A whore is for rent. 

A slave is purchased.

These distinctions are fundamental to Code d' Odalisque. 

On male sexual fantasy

One of the reasons Code d’ Odalisque is so detailed and so particular about regulating the role of Slavekeeper is that it is founded upon realistic insights into male sexuality. In the real world not all guys are sensitive, docile, harmless. The Code aims to provide a web of protection for sexually submissive females who, otherwise, often fall victim to violent and abusive men. The Code is designed to put off women haters and psychopaths. But, more generally, there is the reality of a man’s inner turmoil to be considered. Not all guys are simple, well-adjusted do-gooders. In fact, most men are complex creatures with varying amounts of inner rage, insecurity, uncertainty, egoism, self-hatred and sexual ambivalence. That is, the sexuality of most guys is anything but simple, and it is the whole purpose of Code d’ Ode to provide an arena in which a gentleman can explore and discover his sexuality with the aid of a willing slave.

So an odalisque offers herself - her body - to a man and gives him permission to use her in her personal erotic explorations. We cannot pretend that this might take many men on a journey into confusion and darkness. His slave is willing to be the woman of his most secret fantasies. What dark secrets does he have? What secret desires? What perversities will he impose upon his slave in his quest for self fulfillment? An odalisque’s life is not all hot spas and massages. The whole reason for owing an odalisque is to explore a level of sexual intensity only a willing cockslave can provide. So an odalisque’s life can be sexually intense. A Slavekeeper may be sexually demanding. There may be all sorts of dark secrets and perverse dreams lurking in his subconscious and which owning a cockslave will bring to light. Slavekeepers can use their slave to penetrate into the hidden corners of his erotic nature. Owning an odalisque is a journey in search of exquisite pleasures, but that search inevitably leads a man to confront his sexuality, to ask “What is it that I really, really want? This quest will lead a Slavekeeper far beyond vanilla missionary sex. An odalisque can - and should - be used to explore beyond the usual boundaries. Otherwise, why have an odalisque? An odalisque allows for an exploration of male sexual fantasy. That’s her purpose.

But male sexual fantasy can be a strange and murky world. That is the fact of it. And so, accordingly, Code d’ Odalisque is quite specific in setting limits and parameters for slave play and making the duties of Master and slave perfectly clear. This is why slaves have an Overmistress and why there is such an emphasis on safety throughout the Code. This is why there is a flexible contract system written into the Code. The Code regulates because, in sex, we are dealing with real and potent forces. Sex is an area of psychological sensitivity. Some people get a bit weird when it comes to sex. Code d’ Ode offers a situation that is potentially dangerous. A young, erotic female offers herself as a willing sex toy to a man and is bound to obey him and to tend to his whims. There is potential here for guys to take their slaves into dark places, into the stranger dimensions of male sexuality. This is OK, but the Code is at pains to protect the slave from abuse. The reality is that not all guys are living sweetness. Many aspects of the male sexual response have to do with power, domination and even degradation. Such things can be explored in Code d’ Odalisque, but only within the set limits. Such as no sado-masochism. Some men feel an inner rage towards women. They get off on slapping a woman around or inflicting pain on her. That has no place in Code d’ Ode. But within the set limits, a gentleman can certainly explore themes of control, obedience. He can turn his slave into a cock-obsessed sexual servant who wants to be used as a cunt. He can take her into wild, lewd, outrageous scenes. Make no mistake ñ an odalisque can be used for very wild, very outrageous sexual adventures. But she is protected from brutality.

Sexual energies are potent. The Code attempts to create a framework for safe play where the odalisque is protected from brutality but where there is still the freedom for a Slavekeeper to explore his libido. The Code recognizes a tendency in male sexuality towards the animalistic and the brutal. The Code regulates Slavekeepers and imposes a code of chivalry and decency upon them to try to mitigate and soften these brutal tendencies. The Slavekeeper must find ways to explore his most secret fantasies within the framework of play set by the Code. In short, we recognize that males are a bit brute-like and so they need the Code to keep them civilized.

Self-control and self-understanding are two vital traits in good Slavekeepers. A man must know what hornet’s nest of desires and dreams he is stirring up. He must be prepared to confront those things within him which might be dangerous if he let them out of control. Is there inner rage he won’t acknowledge? Does he harbor a secret hatred for women? Maybe even - Is he still in love with his Mom? When a man buys an odalisque he sets out on a journey of discovery, uncovering elements of his own sexuality, following his imagination, seeking a confrontation with that all-sexual cock-crazy “fantasy female” within. An odalisque is there to help him on this journey. That is the whole process of fantasy projection. The Code attempts to create a safe, civil, courteous environment in which the process of “fantasy projection” - a potent and deep exploration of heterosexual male eroticism - can take place. 

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.