![]() A slave submits more of themselves (all of themselves?) to their owner.Īh, but, what is “more”? “More” than who’s less? Just like that, we’re back in sticky territory once more because everyone wants to quantify and measure the degrees of submission (and even of mastery). So if we follow this “common ground” to its natural conclusion, then a submissive and a slave are really the same except for the extent to which they submit. They most often “need” this because pleasing and/or offering service to a Dominant who has earned their trust, their respect and (generally) their love, is an integral part of a submissive/slave’s fulfillment and satisfaction. Both have a deep need/desire to submit/surrender/give up at least some part of their will/control/power to a Dominant. Maybe we might get further asking what a submissive and a slave have in common. ![]() But this gets me no closer to a final answer. Some of them are completely true for the way a particular person lives and functions and perceives themselves as either a slave or a submissive. Some of them are things I’ve subscribed to at one time or another. This is about the point where the fistfights and hair-pulling begin, and someone eventually is provoked to lob the ultimate holy hand-grenade of judgment: “You’re not a real submissive/slave!”Īll of the above definitions are something I’ve actually heard people say, or read in various books or websites. Slaves are crazy, because who in their right mind would want to be a slave? ![]() A submissive has more self-respect than a slave.Submissives are just playing slaves live the lifestyle. A slave is more submissive than a “mere” submissive.Being a submissive is just a step on the way to the “ultimate” state of submission, which is being a slave.A slave must be a submissive, but a submissive is not necessarily a slave.A submissive has a safe-word to end play, while a slave has consented to no-consent.A slave is not allowed to sit on furniture or wear clothes, and always kneels at his/her owner’s feet.A submissive is owned, but a slave is possessed.A submissive has retained some rights within the context of the D/s relationship, whereas a slave has given up all rights and becomes, in effect, property.A submissive accepts submission, while a slave accepts obedience. ![]() A submissive obeys and serves by choosing to do so each time and retains her will. A slave initially makes a choice to obey his/her master/mistress at all times and then submits to the will of his/her master at all times.A submissive has limits a slave has given up all limits except those which his/her owner sets for them.A submissive is someone who negotiates a slave does not.I could begin by telling you what others might say, or have said: So what is the difference between a submissive and a slave? Lately I’ve resisted the urge to answer this question, because I know someone else will argue every conceivable explanation and I can put my time to better use on other more definable philosophical arguments, like how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?īut since people will still be asking this question (and I’ll still be unable to resist the compulsion to answer) when I’m 97 and senile, I might as well go ahead and write my “definitive” answer to this question now that way it won’t matter if I go all soft in the brains department, I can just refer to my notes that say, “This is your opinion on such-and-such, remember?” Well, if I had a dime for every time someone asked this, I’d be writing this on a laptop on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean.
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