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John's avatar

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This community is lucky to have you helping to build it.

On the subject of aftercare done wrong, I only have 1 experience to point to, my first and best flogging I ever had. Master Dre read my body like a book. He took me off the St Andrew's Cross. He had a slave girl cover me in a blanket. All I wanted was a water. Slave girl brought me water. Then Master Dre sends slave girl off to fetch my Master for aftercare. and I instantly think "Why? He's not going to care." and then the slave girl returns with Master Franc in tow looking annoyed at being disturbed from his drink by the pool and he proves me right saying "What's happened?" to Master Dre. Master Dre responds "Aftercare" and gestures to me. Master Franc looks me over and says "He's fine." and returns to the pool side. I instantly come crashing back down from my high in subspace. It's funny how the mind works in that trance-like state, aware of everything and not really caring about any of it, until you do.

For those that are into degradation, dehumanization, and the like, maybe that experience would have been just fine for them. To be discarded to casually? A Master showing up with drink and cigarette in one hand annoyed that he may be needed for something concerning the property he auctioned off that night in a mock auction to another Master. It is interesting to look back at that with the knowledge that I was right, and I was proven right, because now it's like well what happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way because it was all true. What would have been more a more appropriate response? How could Master Franc have proven me wrong in that moment the way I obviously hoped to have been proven wrong? He could have given me an order to follow. Even if it was "stay there and sip that water" That would have made me feel owned and acknowledged I suppose. He never would have given "comfort" in any sort of traditional sense, but he could have at least made a one-liner to the effect of "Did you destroy his back and make him worthless? I like whipping this slaves back." I don't know.

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Giles English's avatar

This:

> He could have given me an order to follow. Even if it was "stay there and sip that water" That would have made me feel owned and acknowledged I suppose.

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