Thoughts on the Chosen Submissive Lifestyle and Christianity

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.