Today's Thought: Clarity of Self.

In any endeavor, be it dominance, submission, or even just the doldrums of every day life, the first understanding should always be, "Why do I do this?"

Beginning from a subset of self-understanding and clarity of thought, all other actions and choices become extremely simple and direct.  Knowing, in intimate detail, the motivators in our lives allows a fulfillment that religion and sex only pretend to.

So, then, in subjugating a slave, the first action must always be understanding.  Not the soppy, watered down, emotional forgiveness of "understanding" that is always thrown around so casually in our world - but a deep, thorough, analytical, almost surgical understanding of what drives her to action, what terrifies her to stillness, and what will bring her to be the creature desired.

Honesty, in even the smallest dose, is often among the largest pain that can be imparted.

And, when embraced, the largest freedom.

To thine own self, indeed.

Today's Thought: Torture

Some form of torture is used in most any attempt to retrain a personality.  The most generalized and crass is, of course, physical pain.  While this is a useful instrument to be applied liberally and generally, in the case of the masochist the pain itself needs to be reinforced.

The most direct route of torture that can bypass the masochist's pleasure response is psychological.  Sleep and and sensory deprivation, forced re-visitation of past traumatic events, unpredictable and unattainable standards:  These all serve to decrease confidence in a situation, remove the sense of safety of self, and increase the fear response.

Many fear that such a scenario will make a slave too timid and withdrawn - but they have ignored that all of these effects massively increase suggestibility and reliance, leaving the slave more readily molded into the creature of her Master's choice.

Today's Thought:  Fear

Another tool in the destruction and recreation of a human animal, fear.   Deep, primal fear is a fairly easy thing to accomplish in a cruel relationship.  Sustaining it, however, is an important and often neglected aspect.

A slave may often fear the pain she knows will follow mistakes, but if the pain is random and unpredictable, the fear becomes a more constant.   The human body, incapable of sustaining the emotional intensity over so long a time period, becomes chemically inured to the fear reaction, the brain chemistry adjusting to the higher intensity.   In short, addicted - the fear becoming her drug of choice.

The stronger, the more sustained, the greater the fear - the sooner the girl becomes a creature who eagerly seeks out the fearful situations - the beatings, the humiliations, to satisfy her physical addiction to fear.

Today's Thought: Humiliation.

I've encountered many slaves who say they enjoy humiliation.  To me, this is paradoxical.

For an act to be truly humiliating, it must be beyond the realm of enjoyment.  It must be something that the victim of feels is so basely wrong, so incredibly degrading, that the mere thought of it is something they would fight against.

Of course, over time, a slave will become accustomed to and inured of the deeper abasement.  At this point, it is the Master's role to delve deeper, find the next dark corner of the slave's mind and force her into it.

Many argue that eventually this would lead to a slave incapable of shame at any action, who would literally do anything.

I say that the goal is accomplished at that point.

In example:  A slave I met here claiming to be a humiliation enthusiast, but felt her sisters were something she could be proud of.  By the end of the session, she was offering them each up in turn, begging that she be allowed to be useful in bringing the sisters to be used.

Being pissed on, she was proud.  Being made to lick cum from the floor, she was proud.  Hearing her own voice begging for those two family members to be made into the same things she was - then she knew what it was to feel shame.  And she came like a machine at the sensation.

Obviously some clarification is needed from some of the messages.

I am abusive.  Verbally, physically, mentally.

I am not looking to fly out to you tomorrow.  I will torture you online, find your limits, and force you to break them long before I decide if you're worth spending my physical time on.

I will demand everything.  I will give nothing.

All of the above - because I can, and because you will let me.