My Afternoon as a Slave in Training

I realize that isn't a question. The question is:
What was your oddest SL experience? My afternoon as a slave in training has to be the oddest I have experienced in my nearly a year on the grid.

It started when I was offering my best friend in SL some tea and sympathy after breaking up with her SL partner. She was the one to suggest, "Maybe I'll start a slave market." I picked up the idea enthusiastically, partly to take her mind off of things, partly because I was stricken with temporary insanity. But...I have no experience with the practice of slavery. My friend provided a LM to a slave market. Well...if we're thinking of opening a slave market, I had better find out what a slave market is, was my thought.

The slave market covered an entire mainland sim. It is run by a Texas photographer who found that he couldn't make a living as a photographer, but he could make quite a decent living runing a slave market. Slaves are auctioned for $L 30,000 to $L 40,000 per week. The auctioner brags that his sales have been over L$2.9 million since January.

He "modestly" claims that other people have tried to run slave markets, but that he is the best. He has experience in sales. He has over 15 years experiencein RL BDSM. He runs it as a business. He is essentially essentially running an internet porn site. He is making a living as a cyber-pimp.

I was asked if I wanted to learn to be a slave and be sold at auction. I skated around the idea of being sold at auction, but told him I wanted to learn what he could teach me. I was told to strip and wear the collar and cuffs. So began my afternoon as a slave in training. I was actually given the freedom to change the color on the collar and cuffs to anything I liked. The woman explaining them to me suggested that I "take advantage of the freedom. Slaves don't have many choices."

I was doing this out of curiosity. Why were the other people there? I IM'ed a few. One woman who was auctioned off soon after I arrived told me she wanted to find a RL master. The auctioneer advertised her as very sweet, a woman who would do voice and web-cam. I asked her if web-cam wasn't risky. She said she hoped it would help her to find a RL master.

Another woman told me she liked to hang out with the people in the slave market sim. A woman arriving, fresh from Help Island in her noob skin told me she really was into the BDSM thing.

I reached my limit when we were told to do the pole dancing with lots of emoting. I swung around te pole a few times, emoted a couple of things, and realized that this wasn't any fun at all. I've never been into the "hurts so good" sort of thing. I explained to the auctioneer that this just wasn't my thing, thanked him for the hospitality, and bid him live long and prosper before TPing out and leaving the group.

On the flip side, people who sell sex in our society are looked down on. It's our puritan heritage. Isn't the very forbidden nature of the slave auction a large part of it's allure? And no, there's nothing wrong with it.

I don't begin to understand why people choose BDSM in SL and certainly not in RL, but we're all different.

I second what Trevor says. in fact anyone selling sexy clothing in Sl is as guilty of selling sex if that is the criteria used

I would have been wrong in that statement if all BDSM was was sex.
It is not!!!!!!
You wouldn't know that as you didn't let your "curiosity" take you far enough.

For instance;

I have 4 slaves, each have different tastes in what they like, what they do that is special, what they feel about certain things.

I enjoy going and having a dance with my girls.
I enjoy discussing their day.
I enjoy being their friend and sharing my home with them.
We laugh together, we cry together.
We know each other in a way you could not phathom because you ARE LOOKING DOWN YOUR NOSE!

You see bdsm as sex only.....maybe you should read a book.

Rose, i understand that BDSM is not for you, however you have enflamed a lot of people who do enjoy this lifestyle in RL as well as SL, because you criticise and condemn from a position of ignorance.

Also, Rose, you came to the sim under false pretences, was treated with respect and it grates on those of us who are here openly and honestly enjoying our lifestyle. <parp>

My opinion. for what its worth .. You keep on about selling sex and being a pimp.So by your analogy. every single dating agency in this world is run by pimps.am i correct??.
speed dating is speed pimping

Ok, where did I say I look down my nose? Are you assuming that "looking down my nose" is implied in such things as labelilng a sim that peddles sex as what it is? Unlike the USA, there are no SL laws against buying and selling sex. It is not illegal. If you bring with you the mores you were raised with which labelled the RL pedalling of sex as wrong, that is not my fault. Why do you have a problem with calling a spade a spade?

As far as you and your four slaves go, I am sure there is much between you beyond sex. Sex is good for...a day or two? Then you have to talk to each other. However, the relationship you and the women RPing being your slaves have is a different sort of relationship than exists between a potential buyer of a slave in the slave auction sim. The key selling point there is sex. Why are the slave avies nude? Why is it insisted that they always kneel with their knees apart facing their "master"? Does the auctioneer emphasize the building skills of the slaves he is selling? This doesn't make it wrong or inferior, but don't pretend it is other than it is.

As several people have previously stated BDSM is not all about sex. As a matter of fact a lot of people absolutely forbid sexual contact during BDSM scenes.

The person in question is also known to me and would suggest the last thing he is selling is sex.

However there are plenty of places in SL that openly sell sexual favours by the hour and have escorts specially employed for the purpose

Its about time people got on with their own lives and stopped poking their nose into others lives.

If you can tell me any way in which this is harming you then please do.
Its like a bad TV program. If you dont like what you see there are plenty of other programs to watch.

OK...Rose, do you have a problem with sex? You seem a lot more hung up on it than the rest of us!

The slaves are naked, facing their Master, knees apart because yes, they are stating by their position that they are sexually open and available to Him (or Her if a Domme). So what? Sex is a part of a BDSM relationship, but it is not the primary function, just as in any relationship it is a feature. When you first meet someone, the attraction is purely physical, which is why on SL we create physically appealing avatars. What is so wrong with that? It may start with sex, or sexual attraction, but it certainly doesn't end there.

Oh and my Master, Trevor, is the best publican pimp ever. I am so proud to be His!

I just keep waiting for Master Bull to start a rl auction, I want to be the first one on the auction block. we all have choices and this is the liftstyle I choose. I love it!
Thank you MASTER BULL!

No, I don't have a problem with sex.

I have a problem with people telling me that a situation that is clearly about sex is not about sex.

can you tell me that a room filled with nude pole-dancing women emoting about what they are doing to the poles is NOT about sex?

I do not believe that sex=bad. Yes, the sim is about sex. No, that doesn't make it bad.

I"m not claiming BDSM is all about sex. I am claiming that the slave auction is about sex.

You are correct that most relationships begin as physical in nature. If there is nothing but the physical, they don't last. If you have a relatinoship that has lasted, then you have a lot more betweenyou than the physical. Again, this isn't a blanket condemnation of all BDSM relationships, or a condemnation of the slave market at all.

It is women like L1sa that most shocked me at the slave auction. This was my first exposure to BDSM, and yes, some aspects of it shocked me.

L1sa openly wishes to find a master in RL. While I wish her every success in her chosen lifestyle, it is not the goal of anyone I had encountered up to that point.

AGain, tell me that naked women pole-dancing while their skills in emoting what they are doing to the poles are praised by a group of fully clothed men is NOT about sex. Tell me that with a straight face, if you can.