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slavery
is/not
By
slave david stein
*slave
david stein is an author and originator of the phrase “Safe, Sane, and
Consensual” (SSC). Bio details after poem
slavery
is not about suffering...
... slavery is about service.
slavery is not about humiliation...
... slavery is about humility.
slavery is not about pain...
... slavery is about being present.
slavery is not about being used...
... slavery is about being of use.
slavery is not about control...
... slavery is about letting go.
slavery is not about what is done to you...
... slavery is about what you do for
others.
slavery is not about abuse...
... slavery is about acceptance.
slavery is not about proving anything...
... slavery is about being real.
slavery is not about contempt...
... slavery is about respect.
slavery is not about how you look...
... slavery is about how much you care.
slavery is not about denying yourself...
... slavery is about being open.
slavery is not about bondage...
... slavery is about freeing your
spirit.
slavery is not about punishment...
... slavery is about discipline.
slavery is not about being unable to escape...
... slavery is about being committed.
slavery is not about submission...
... slavery is about obedience.
slavery is not about fear...
... slavery is about trust.
slavery is not about sex...
... slavery is about love.
slavery is not about pleasure...
... slavery is about happiness.
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Read
the SCENEprofiles Interview with slave
david stein
Red the
excerpt from his new book Carried
Away *This is an Acrobat file so
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Copyright 1998 by david
stein ( gorgik@aol.com ); author’s
note updated April 2003. Permission is hereby freely granted for
not-for-profit reprinting or reposting as long as the author’s name
and e-mail address are included at the end. The original version of this
piece was written on Monday morning,
October 26, 1998
, shortly before i flew home to
New York
following a week of service
with Master Steve Sampson in
Palm Springs
,
CA
,
where He then lived. That
morning, i posted it to the gl-subs list, and a few days later i posted
a revised version to gl-asb, AOL’s Leather onQ boards, the
soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm newsgroup, and elsewhere. A still later
version, very close to the one here, was posted on Master Steve’s site
(no longer available), SlaveMaster’s
site, and a few other Web pages and was subsequently published in
the newsletter of GMSMA, Lolita’s
P&P list, and elsewhere. Since then, it has become one of my
most requested pieces and is now available on dozens of Web sites. It
makes me happy to know that my words strike a sympathetic chord in so
many other hearts.
—with
respect, slave
david
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An
internationally known author of both fiction and nonfiction on BDSM
themes, david stein has been published in a wide range of current and
defunct magazines including Drummer,
Bound & Gagged, International Leatherman, Mach,
PowerPlay, DungeonMaster, Checkmate,
Prometheus, Sandmutopia Guardian, Servants’
Quarters, and the online e-zines Crawl,
RopedWeb, and All American Kink.
Pieces of his have also appeared in the anthologies Leatherfolk,
edited by Mark Thompson (Alyson, 1991); Horsemen: Leathersex Short
Fiction, edited by Joseph W. Bean
(
Leyland
,
1997); and SM
Classics, edited by Susan Wright
(Masquerade, 1999). Last May david’s epic-length novel, Carried Away: An S/M Romance,
was published by Daedalus (
Los
Angeles
,
www.daedaluspublishing.com
). Historically, david is
most associated with the coining of the phrase “safe, sane, and
consensual S/M” in 1983 for Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA), an
organization that he co-founded and helped lead for 11 years (he remains
a member but is no longer active in a leadership role). The phrase
subsequently spread throughout the
U.S.
and beyond, especially via the S/M-Leather Contingent at the 1987 March
on
Washington
for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which used “Safe Sane Consensual” as its
slogan. An essay on the history of the slogan can be found in PDF format
on his Web pages at www.lthredge.com/ds/history.htm.
~~~
Copyright
2003
This
poem is reprinted here with the explicit permission of the author. If
you would like to share it with others, please link directly to this
page or contact the author for permission. It is a violation of
copyright law to distribute or reprint this piece without that
permission, however you may include a short quote from it, not more than
20% of the total text. Please respect the integrity of this work.
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