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Be cruel in your erotic
play: snap on handcuffs, neck-collars, and chains, lock pins and clips on
nipples, administer meticulous floggings; or, be a slave for a night and, with
your master's help, mimic the ancient 'art of unbearable sensations', tremble
with the most exquisite agonies, savor the disintegration and humiliation of
the self in the joy essence of exploded limits.
--James Miller The Passions of Michel Foucault p.237.
A quick search online combining the two unlikely terms
Christian and SM bring up to some a disturbing number of hits. There are now
many publications and groups looking at the over all spiritually of BDSM as a
lifestyle. If you are a new submissive or slave you may believe you must give
up your traditional spiritual practice to cater to your chosen lifestyle.
The truth is looking for scholarly or orthodox legitimate
reasons to participate in the BDSM will leave any new submissive or slave
confused. Your real spiritual reasons for seeking this lifestyle and being
fulfilled by it lie within you. You can not "biblically' or
"religiously 'justify your lifestyle choices. This choice is no more
damaging or uplifting of your soul then deciding to be a health fanatic or
taking on a political cause. You reason you must admit is personal and to some
degree selfish. The BDSM satisfies some deep need inside you to serve, be
corrected, and be protected by the Other.
The Other for most of us on the highest spiritual plane is
God. The other for the satisfied slave or submissive in day to day life should
ideally be their Dominant. This is why it is very important that you and your
Dominant share some like spirituality. A true Christian Dominant does not
encourage their slave or submissive to put their interests before the interests
of Christ.
The Christology of BDSM lifestyle is almost infantile in
it simplicity with the dynamic of service and sacrifice. Soon new submissive
and slaves learn quickly that the greatest sacrifice and service in their
relationships comes from their Master or Dominant. It is this knowledge that
fosters such adoration from slaves and submissive to their Masters. If the
slave or submissive is a Christian this brings home the message in a very
personal way the sacrifice of the incarnation of Christ. That anyone who is
higher lowers themselves to the lowest inspires great devotion from those they
are ultimately caring for.
The Christian lessons of BDSM should not ever be taken as
literal religious truth, only as truth that speaks to your experience as a
Christian and a slave or submissive. The spiritual truth that Christian
teaching and practice bring to your personal life can not be projected into
wider Christian thought and teaching. These lessons are in the end only for the
slave and submissive and the wider community of sisters in service to which
they belong.
Below are scriptures that encourage slaves to be good
servants especially to their Christian Masters. These scriptures addressed
slaves who had no choice of servitude and who had not said about their service.
They address the issue of a real slave in the context of a society where real
slavery was common; and issue of being free in Christ and bound to someone by
law had to be addressed.
Those who seek to be slaves or submissive consensually can
read the same scripture and take a way a message of the rightness of their
chosen service and their ability to call themselves Christian This is a very
legitimate use of scripture for the Christian slave or submissive as long as
they understand the true message to real slaves these scriptures addressed. 1
Timothy 6:1-2 reads:
All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their
own masters as worthy of all honors so that the name of God and our doctrine
will not be spoken against? Those who have believers as their masters must not
be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the
more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach
and preach these principles.
Ephesians 6: 5-9:
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters
according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your
heart, as to Christ; not by way of eye service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves
of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will render service,
as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good thing each one does,
this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. And masters, do
the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their
Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
Titus 2: 9-10:
Urge bond slaves to be subject to their own masters in
everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing
all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every
respect.
Those who look for spiritual justification for the
submission of the female to Males will be just as disappointed if they believe
that scriptures or historic practices teaching the submission of women have
legitimate value in this day of sexual equality .The idea that the submissive
or slave is lacking and need s the improvement or protection of the Dominant is
part of most slaves or submissive personal belief system. We as slaves or
submissive can give credence to the superiority of the male (or butch) to edify
our own choice of submission but we can not act as though this is a larger
truth outside of our own choice or lifestyle and sexual practice.
So the Christian submissive or slave can engage in a
spiritual search within the confines of traditional Christianity it can improve
their submissive attitude and relieve guilt about their lifestyle choice. One
should keep the confines of spiritual study within the degree the Dominant
wishes it when they are in service
Taking to heart as a submissive the personal message that
it is within the will of God for you to submit as a female to a Butch/or Male
dominant or as slave can enhance your time in submissive space. The only
personal spiritually that matters to you at that time is the one that speaks to
you being uplifted by your chosen state of submission.
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