Slave fiction is a subgenre of BDSM fiction where the object of a fictional story is to show how someone adopts to the life of being someone else's slave. These stories are normally erotic in nature which give the stories an appeal to those who read it. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ... Eroticism is an aesthetic focused on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. ...
Normally these stories begin with an unwilling captured subject who is processed and acclimated to the life of a slave. The majority of these stories are gay oriented and mostly contain "straight" captured subjects that are introduced to homosexuality by their captors. Although the word gay originally meant happy, in modern usage the term is often applied interchangeably with homosexual. However, there are important differences between the terms: while homosexual relates specifically to sexuality, the term gay is a political or social marker. ... Homosexuality may refer to: A sexual orientation characterized by aesthetic attraction, romantic love, and sexual desire exclusively or almost exclusively for members of the same sex or gender identity. ...
In most of these stories the captured subjects either willingly accept their status as a slave after time or somehow overcome the odds and become freed in some manner. The freed slaves usually must use some combination of skill, intelligence, and strength to overcome their captors. Many readers of this genre report that these stories are erotic even though the readers would not want to either be captured or be capturing slaves. The appeal of these stories most likely lie in that the reader can escape from his or her present situation when he or she reads the story. A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... Eroticism is an aesthetic focused on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. ...
Slave contracts are often negotiated for a one year term, but longer and shorter terms are possible, lifetime contracts are rare but not unknown.
Slave contracts are simply a way of defining the nature and limits of the relationship and are not intended to carry legal force.
After a slave contract is drafted, some celebrate the event with a "collaring ceremony", in which the local D/s community is invited to witness the commitment made in the document.
The "formula" of the slave narrative was something that the slave writer understood only too well, but today we can acknowledge some features of the genre that reflect the slave writers' chafing against the rules laid down by white abolitionist agenda, as well as their attending to them.
The slave narrator him or herself was encouraged to leave inner revelations, such as expressions of self-discovery and individuality, in the background and to foreground the verifiable facts of representative slave experience, without adornment.
The labeling of womens fiction as "domestic" reflects the idea that women belonged in the home, that politics and public life were inappropriate for women, and that their natural "sphere" was to inculcate, in their children, the morals needed for gendered roles in society.
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