Initiating a New Slave

by Aramock Nanuck

March 1983 (original)

March 2020 (last rewrite)

This article explores the concept of organizing our thoughts on this lifestyle and what it truly means to be "Extreme," as well as how the few can handle it. In one way or another, the life of any person has some level of bondage, structure, and discipline associated with it.

Vanilla Parallels

Even in the vanilla world, rules, customs, and social stigmas bind us to our families, other individuals, jobs, and social norms. The fetish world, though, sometimes appears more like "vanilla" hazing rituals than initiation rites.

The Package Deal

The life many submissive people crave is a mental and practical implementation of control in their lives. A dominant will exert absolute control, encompassing both psychological and physical aspects. The physical is merely the application of the cognitive aspects. Now we may be forced to conform to social sensibilities, as today's society interferes with this lifestyle. In many cases, bondage sees limits placed on the treatment of slaves only to the point at which they can accept the uses. Modern sexual slavery is also contrived to exert a level of denial and violence (even if only mentally). Acts are perpetrated by the Master/Mistress and their friends, guests and sometimes even their clients upon the supplicants, submissives and sometimes slaves.

Fetish versus Historical Reality

Therefore, the life of a true slave is a harsh reality that few would want. The existence of a consensual or lifestyle slave is an entirely different matter. Pain slaves and masochists, however, that living with a sadist is not a fantasy but takes this to a much harsher and demeaning reality, however, again, nowhere near the level of what former "real" slaves historically suffered.

Surrender is the Ultimate Shame

Life in a fetish setting is about control and, to some extent, the dehumanization of a “submissive” by a “dominant.” Entering one's own volition is more humiliating and demeaning than being dragged in chains/forced. The person submitting can not deceive themselves into thinking, nor claim they had no choice. They had a choice and made it "freely" to surrender.

Dismantling Free Will

The difference is that a level of free will is imposed on the next step. Removing that free will is essential to a fantasy situation. A person enters enslavement to begin their humiliation; service is merely how that humiliation is exacted. Some are allowed to undress in a dignified arena; others, shackled, have their street clothes forcibly removed or cut from their bodies. Serious dominant takes action towards the latter, as it begins the process of shredding not only the clothes but the dignity of their subjects. Inevitably, free will is dismantled in a public setting, stripping the person of aspects of their former life. They are then disrobed, exposed and inspected like farm animals, showered or hosed, and prepared for use.

In the Extreme

In the case of forced servitude (even today with human trafficked sex workers) or the extreme enthusiasts of the lifestyle resisting the dismantling of Free Will results in beating into submission the subject. Lowly and dehumanized, the slave becomes oriented over the next few days to a regimen of strict rules, inspection and particular activity windows.

Solitary and Isolated

In many cases, isolation from everyone else in solitary conditions is the key to breaking a new slave. Placing the newbie on a restricted diet further demonstrates their lack of control, choice and removes the chance for alternatives. Initially subjected to harsh conditions and handling many newbies, they find a total lack of human warmth. The removal of the emotive pronoun "I" and replacing it with "this object" supports the dehumanization and replacing it with their role as property. Used how, whenever convenient by whoever wants them without recourse. The person becomes a tool, a toy or an object; effectively, a plaything.

Routine Punishment

All sadistic (and many not so sadistic) dominants include routine corporal punishments for the mildest of infractions— disconnecting from "rights," essentially, degrades the individual and reinforces obedience as an absolute requirement of being a slave. Slaves are bereft of morals, dignity, and humanity. Accordingly, the treatment of slaves must be the same as that of witches in the inquisition, subject to the most serious forms of degradation. Removal from the slave's cage is merely the beginning of their torment, as with the Inquisition, the intent is to discover the sins and validate them through torment and torture.

Caging the Mind

There was no imaginary cell for the slave, but a cage for a dog, big enough for the subject to move around and sleep curled up. A bucket for their waste, and a steel bowl for their food or water, both on the floor. When taken from the cage, shackles and chains further constrain the slave. Occasionally, suspended from the ceiling, chained to the wall, or to the floor. Over time, the weight, size, and strength of the bindings are lower; the slave still refuses to struggle as their mind breaks. Even an unlocked cage becomes more comfortable than any area beyond it, for outside the cage awaits suffering, pain, degradation, and abuse.

Restricting Contact

Slaves have no access in the beginning to the outside world, except when taken to various events to demonstrate the abusive techniques a sadist uses. A rare treat will be when they are chaining a slave in their master’s (mistress's) or a guest’s bed, but at the cost of a further denial of personal dignity.

The Results

Conditioning is customarily complete in extreme cases and causes severe psychological trauma. We tend to take on aspects of these forms in our lifestyle without ever truly pushing them to their extreme. They become ritual and, for a short time (minutes, hours, even sometimes days), become a form of living that supplicates the sensations of what it is truly is like to be a slave. Note: This is the same method used to train special forces personnel and commandos worldwide to resist such conditioning attempts.