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11 Apr 07   Slave Training

I've been thinking about training this week, partly to write the Slave Training article for the Ownership Wiki. Like the word "slave" itself it has a wide range of uses, from the profound (as another term for enslavement) to the ridiculous (for paid SM sessions with a dominatrix.) I've avoided using the term in the past because of its vagueness, but I'd now like to put these two words to work with a plausible definition. [more...]
8 Apr 07   Yorkshire to Nottingham prisons trip

Last week popi and I went on a prisons trip that I've been planning for almost a year, based on the closeness (from the point of view of Manchester) of prison museums in Yorkshire, Lincoln and Nottinghamshire. [more...]
6 Apr 07   Review of "Master Nage's Guide to Training Consens

I've been away this week and took the opportunity to read Nage's book. It's one of a sudden flurry of M/s books which have appeared in the last couple of years. I think it's clear that it's the weakest of the current crop but I'm going to try to highlight the good points as well as the rest. [more...]
25 Mar 07   Obedience dynamics

In this post, I'd like to tie together the various concepts and terms that surround obedience in Master/slave and Ownership relationships. Words like resistance, reactance, discipline, rules, submission, and obedience refer to different parts of the puzzle, but don't have well-defined boundaries, and I'd like to suggest a consistent set of definitions and some new ideas to help visualise the various processes of obedience. [more...]
16 Mar 07   Barcode tags ... really do scan!

I've now been able to try out barcode dogtags from two of the sources listed on the SLRN barcode suppliers page. I'm very impressed with the results, in particular that both types are scannable, despite being quite different in appearance to the high-contrast black-on-white barcodes you see in supermarkets and bookshops every day. [more...]
14 Mar 07   Options and choices, or lack thereof

If you're at all sick of the what gets posted to TPE/Enslavement forums sometimes, please have a read of this excellent post by kaya-s and all of the replies (especially i999shadow's)
11 Mar 07   Being Superman. Being Clark Kent.

We've watched Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films this weekend, and this is a short post I meant to write after seeing Volume II in the cinema. It's about identity and M/s. [more...]
4 Mar 07   Erostek remote box

I've had an Erostek ET-302R remote control signal generator for a couple of years, but I've not used it for a while and not written about it, so after going out with popi and it today, I thought I'd made a few comments. [more...]
2 Mar 07   The Women Who Take Their Mate as a Master

In 1992 "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel" was published by Wilson and Daly as part of "The Adapted Mind", a collection of papers which established Evolutionary Psychology as a new way of looking at the mind in terms of evolution, and attempting to identify which aspects are the result of an evolved human nature. These evolved psychological mechanisms each made a contribution to survival and reproduction in the environment in which humans evolved, although many are no longer useful or even wanted by modern humans. Wilson and Daly's paper argued that one of these adaptations is that men [more...]
2 Mar 07   Registration for MASTER/slave Conference opens

Registration for the annual MASTER/slave Conference in Washington, DC has now opened. The conference takes place over the weekend of the 27-29th July 2007, and is the only major convention specific to M/s and 24/7 D/s relationships. The Northeast MASTER/slave Contest also takes place during the weekend of workshops and talks. (The Slave Register is now a Gold Sponsor of this event )

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