Threads on Dignity in O&P

Posted by Tanos on Fri 30 Oct 09, 1:55 AM to the Internal Enslavement blog

Tags: enslavement, o_and_p

I've started threads on Dignity on the various O&P groups this week: on IC, on TSR and on Fetlife.

For reference, this is the first post of those threads:

Tanos wrote:
Dignity is not a very fashionable concept now. You might be thinking it's a stuffy word or even pompous. But its use in the O&P Manifesto is about self-respect and having personal standards, rather than about self-importance.
I think it would be hard to find another word that breaks down into as many worthwhile virtues as "dignity". Some people have used "honour", but that's even more ambiguous with associations of self-importance or a tender pride that must be defended.
O&P uses dignity, and the need to avoid undignified behaviour, as guiding principles for owners and dominants to promote the stability and proper functioning of the household and its interactions with people outside. Maintaining dignity requires the avoidance of lying, cheating, lack of effort, or breaking one's word. It also means not compromising on one's own freedom, including making oneself dependent on others because of lack of self-discipline, and not compromising one's self in the face of resistance from submissives and social pressures from outside the household. In short, it is beneath an owner or dominant's dignity to engage in unworthy behaviour.
These are high standards to strive for, but how do you see these concepts in relation to D/s and M/s?

Edited Fri 30 Oct 09, 8:57 AM by Tanos

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