Distinctions

Code d’ Odalisque, in theory and in practice, is constructed upon some careful distinctions. Such as:

Freewoman - slave

Odalisque – memlook

Slave – slut – whore

Occlusion – sojourn

Bonded – Unbonded

Shod – discalced

The Code is designed to emphasize and maintain these distinctions. This is why there are rules. A slave is forbidden to act like a freewoman, for example. We keep a careful distinction between when a slave is in occlusion and when she is on sojourn. We do not treat an odalisque like a low slave (memlook). A slave is not a slut and not a whore. A freewoman is shod (wears shoes) but slaves are barefoot.

If you keep these distinctions in mind you will find that the provisions of Code d’ Odalisque – in theory and practice – are easy, natural and logical.

A creative endeavour

I like many aspects of Code d’ Odalisque, but I find it too specific. I like to do things my way.

Code d’ Odalisque is made available for free. People are free to take or leave whatever they like. Code d' Ode is a free gift. We do not prosecute copyright with packs of vicious lawyers - its not Scientology! The complete Code along with a lot of supporting material is available for free to anyone who wants it. Code d' Ode operates in a spirit of charity, its economic aspects literally so.

There are many worthwhile aspects of the Code – the grading system, the slave postures, the system of etiquette, as well as the philosophy and ideals. People are free to take whatever elements of the Code they like, just as they are free to adapt the Code to their circumstances. The Code is comprehensive and internally coherent, but it is always possible to take some things from it while leaving others. Indeed, we hope that Code d’ Odalisque has a stimulating and positive influence upon a wide range of people, especially people in the BDSM sub-culture.

All the same, Code d’ Odalisque has a special mission to submissive women that sets it apart from ordinary BDSM – it seeks to offer submissive women an alternative to S & M and drudgery. It seeks to reinstitute the role of “odalisque” – the dedicated pleasure slave. The Code offers a complete restoration of consensual odalisque slavery and serves as a foundation for a distinct odalisque slave culture. While many people are eclectic, some people are purists. The codifications of Code d’ Odalisque offer a formal ideal. The objective is to build a community of players dedicated to that ideal and living that ideal.

You can get a free copy of the fifth edition of Code d’ Odalisque by writing to: bedroomslaves@yahoo.com

You are invited to embrace the ideals of the slave code and to join us in creating a vital community of the odalisque slave lifestyle. Otherwise, feel free to take ideas and to adapt them to your purposes. It is always a creative endeavour.

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The intelligent woman

Question: If an odalisque is to be completely focused upon cock and is to make herself just a passive cunt to be used by her Master, is the role only suited to brainless bimbos? What about women with a brain? It seems like odalisques are expected to be dumb, silent and stupid.

The odalisque has a carefully defined role. Her role is to be a pleasure slave. Her purpose is to be a compliant, willing fuckpuppet for her Keeper. When she is not actively providing sexual pleasure to her Master, her job is to be a beautiful, erotic ornament to his life. In this one-dimensional role she is distinguished from low slaves, because she does not work, and – as a slave – she is not a freewoman, a girlfriend or a wife either. A man does not purchase an odalisque for intellectual stimulation or emotional support. He owns an odalisque for the purposes of sexual adventure. That is the whole reason odalisques exist.

This does not mean that an odalisque is necessarily dumb or brainless. She need not be a bimbo. Educated, intelligent women might find fulfillment in the odalisque’s role too – but not intellectual fulfillment. A woman should not become an odalisque expecting it to be intellectually stimulating. That would be to misconstrue the whole purpose of odalisque slavery and the nature of the odalisque’s life. But there is no reason why a woman cannot find intellectual fulfillment additional to her role as odalisque.

An odalisque is a sexual slave. Sex is her work. The odalisque’s work is not intellectual at all. We should not confuse an odalisque with a courtesan or geisha. She is not expected to sit and discuss politics, diplomacy and philosophy with her Keeper. She is a slave, a captive sex slave. An odalisque does not need a great mind anymore than a prostitute needs a PhD. Put plainly, her job is to fuck. That’s all. But within the scope of an odalisque’s life there is ample room for a woman to pursue her intellectual interests additional to this. The only proviso is: These interests should not intrude into her job as odalisque. A man does not need an odalisque who is too cerebral, too complicated.

A Keeper meets his intellectual and emotional needs through other women: wife, girlfriend, colleague, friends. But a wise Slavekeeper will nevertheless allow an odalisque with brains to keep her intellectual interests on the side, according to her natural capacities. Becoming an odalisque should not be like having a lobotomy. When a woman becomes an odalisque she is not expected to become brain-dead. If she is smart, then that is her nature, and she should be trained and used and kept according to her nature.

When she is actively serving her Master, there is no virtue in her being smart. It is best, then, if she is single-focused, obsessive, uncomplicated, non-cerebral. When she is serving her Master – when she is worshipping cock - she is in “the zone”, mesmerized by lust, absorbed. An odalisque’s role is physical. But she may use her mind at other times.

In some ways the (full-time) odalisque’s life is almost monastic. The odalisque will enjoy a large amount of time in quiet seclusion. There is ample time for reading, study, thought, meditation. Indeed, some women might use their time in occlusion as a chance to complete a course of on-line study. For a woman who enjoys quiet reading and study, a contemplative existence away from the bustle of the world, an odalisque’s life as captive slave could be ideal.

For company, an odalisque can maintain intellectually stimulating discourse with her Overmistress and – with her Keeper’s permission – others too.

As long as she does not let mental clutter and distractions interfere with her duties to her Master, namely her duty to be a compliant and willing one-dimensional puppet in his sexual fantasies.

The training of an odalisque teaches her how to focus her thoughts into an obsessive monomania, phallic obsessions. She must learn how to put her heart and mind into her service. And her mind should not be undisciplined. This is the danger with intelligent women. Their mind will wander, cogitate, theorize, construct narratives. And this interferes with an odalisque’s ability to be in the “now”, present. In the case of an intelligent woman, slave training will need to teach her how to stop intellectualizing, how to turn the ratiocinative mind off. Intellectual people face the same problem when they try to learn meditation. Often, they do not make good meditators. They think too much. Thinking too much is a flaw in an odalisque.

But no, she need not be a bimbo. There is no reason why highly intelligent women cannot be odalisques. They don’t need to deny their intelligence, as long as they understand that the odalisque’s role is not intellectual and as long as they can put their intellectualizing aside when they are in the throes of sexual service. Intelligent women should use the institution of odalisque to the advantage of their nature. They provide sexual service to their Master and they use the solitude of captivity (occlusion) as an opportunity for reading and study.

Discalcing - removal of shoes

Contract of Submission - example

By a written Contract of Submission a freewoman becomes an odalisque. A basic example of such a contract is included in Code d' Odalisque. The contract declares the woman's intention to become an odalisque, and it sets out her "hard limits" - the non-negotiable aspects of her slavery. Here is another example of a Contract of Submission:

To all whom it may concern.

Look upon me with pity! how I am overcome with cocklust! how my obsessions have at last reduced me to this pathetic and wanton creature, groveling and begging to be used! I am helpless against my passions. It has come to this! All I can do is surrender. Otherwise, I will never be content.

Therefore, by this contract I, Miss Julie Jones, do surrender myself into sexual service as an obedient, compliant odalisque – a willing cockslave - from this day, January 1st 2010, until the dawn of January 1st 2016.

I do, of my own will, in full consent, and driven by an inner compulsion, give myself into sexual slavery, to serve and worship cock, and agree to be traded, trained and enjoyed under the rules and codifications of Code d’ Odalisque. I claim all the rights of an odalisque under the provisions of the Code.

I shall go naked into occlusion, a captive of lust. I will obey my Keeper and serve his bed. I will be the woman of his fantasies, mirror of his dreams. I claim fellatrice as my special skill and offer my mouth to his service.

I ask that I be spared from pain and torture and that I not be treated like a low slave. I ask that I be kept from toil and that I be preserved unblemished, protected and safe at all times.

It is a condition of my contract that my Keeper allows me to continue with my home studies by electronic correspondence.

It is a condition of my contract that my Keeper does not ever loan me to a Guestmaster but is always present himself if ever he wishes me to serve guests.

It is a condition of my contract that I will not by subjected to anal penetration in any circumstances.

I appoint [Sally Brown] as my Overmistress throughout the duration of my slavery.