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Responsibility in O&P
Posted by Tanos on Tue 17 Nov 09, 12:16 AM
I've now posted last week's (delayed) threads about Responsibility on the O&P groups
on Informed Consent,
on The Slave Register,
and
on Fetlife.
For reference, here is the first post of those threads:
Tanos wrote:
The
O&P
Manifesto tries to strike a balance between
the power acquired by dominants and the
responsibility they must possess. I've made a
deliberate attempt here to provoke more discussion
about more "hardline" types of D/s (along with M/s)
where the submissive is there for the dominant's
agenda in an unequal relationship. The concepts
already discussed which embody desirable (or
essential!) qualities of competent dominants in
O&P, of dignity, authenticity, consent, and respect
are there to provide necessary counterweights to
that power. Responsibility is the most important of
these within this kind of relationship.
In fact, I believe that almost all competent
dominants enjoy responsibility anyway, since it's
intrinsically connected to power and authority, and
being the one who makes the ultimate decisions and
deals with the consequences. However, the sense of
responsibility that is a requirement in O&P
focuses on the needs that the submissive has, since
needs cannot be left unaddressed over time, by the
definition of "needs" themselves.
The cold, hard justification is that with all
property, if it is not looked after over time, the
ability to use or own it is lost. But in practice,
I would include all sorts of things in "needs",
including social contact and even the kind of
purposefulness provided by a career in some cases.
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Possession. Ownership. Consent. Responsibility. Respect. House. Service.
Dignity. Authenticity. Rituals.
O&P (Ownership & Possession) is a new structure built from familiar
D/s and M/s concepts, defined by the
O&P Manifesto.
There are O&P discussion groups
on
Informed Consent in the UK
and
on Fetlife.
The O&P Wiki contains articles about
O&P and related D/s, M/s, and BDSM topics.
You can also follow O&P
on Twitter.
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