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Estate Protocol
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www.seekdiscipline.com
The Estate website has gone through several versions during the early 2000s, and along with the spin-off site The Grey Book, has outlined some of the service training ideas of its authors, Flagg, Soulhuntre, and SirC.
Although both websites are very incomplete, the three authors' contributions do contain enough information to fill out a composite protocol schema.
Classes
The two basic classes are dominants and submissives, with a hierarchy of status between dominants that determines some aspect of submissives' behaviour towards different dominants.
Dress and Symbols
No dress codes are laid down, although wearing a dominant's collar is used as a symbol of that dominant's authority over the submissive. Collars are also used figuratively ("worthy of a collar") to represent the privilege of service.
Speech Rules
A protocol for introductions is laid out, based on the status of the participants and also conveying information in their involvement in BDSM.
- Inferiors are introduced to superiors.
[i.e., peasants introduced to royalty] - Introductions are in the order of hierarchy (a submissive's dominant is at the top of their hierarchy.)
- "I would like you to meet X" indicates the interaction is vanilla.
- "I would like to introduce X to you" indicates the interaction is scene-friendly.
- "I would like to present X to you" indicates "a very formal scene protocol". This form shouldn't be used by submissives making introductions.
(This idea of conveying information through the form of introduction is rather like the Mafia-aware ("connected") and Mafia-member ("made") protocol described in Donnie Brasco: 'When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now, if I said instead, "This is a friend of ours," that would mean you're a made guy. Capiche?')
Deportment
Flagg gives the following outlines for low, medium and high protocols:
Low protocol:
Used in vanilla and informal situations.
- A continuous reminder of service and its responsibilities
- Permitted casual behavior, yet with specific boundaries.
- Recognition of station, orders, demands, and requests in an invisible and unobtrusive fashion.
- Behavior that reflects my intentions and desired interaction on a personal and professional level
- Awareness of accountability, despite the temptations offered by casual behavior and independence.
Medium protocol:
For most public BDSM scene environments, and during play scenes.
- Prioritize decisions in the appropriate context
- The time and place for degrees of casual behavior
- Consistent ground rules of action and responsibility
- Awareness and anticipation of my needs, wants, and desires- and those of other respected Dominants in my company as a priority
- Focus on BDSM priorities, no matter how long or strenuous the time spent in Middle Protocol
High protocol:
Normally used for short periods or during longer punishments.
- Complete attention and focus, no matter what the distractions.
- Absolute and instantaneous obedience, without delay, hesitation or question.
- Decision-making and priorities are NOT part of High Protocol; the servants wants, needs and desires are suspended.
- All extraneous movement, speech, and thought are unacceptable. If First Protocol is in effect, concentration is demanded.
- Awareness that every move, answer and behavior is being carefully scrutinized and judged.
See Also
External Links
- The Estate and Grey Book websites.
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www.slaveregister.com
The Estate website underwent several revisions during the early 2000s, and along with the spin-off site The Grey Book, outlined some of the service training ideas of its authors, Flagg, Soulhuntre, and SirC.
Although both websites are incomplete, the contributions of the three authors contain enough information to fill out a composite protocol schema.
Classes
The two basic classes are dominants and submissives, with a hierarchy of status between dominants that determines some aspect of submissives' behaviour towards different dominants.
Dress and symbols
No dress codes are laid down, although wearing a dominant's collar is used as a symbol of that dominant's authority over the submissive. Collars are also used figuratively ("worthy of a collar") to represent the privilege of service.
Speech rules
A protocol for introductions is laid out, based on the status of the participants and also conveying information about their involvement in BDSM.
- Inferiors are introduced to superiors.
- Introductions are in the order of hierarchy (a submissive's dominant is at the top of their hierarchy).
- "I would like you to meet X" indicates the interaction is vanilla.
- "I would like to introduce X to you" indicates the interaction is scene-friendly.
- "I would like to present X to you" indicates "a very formal scene protocol". This form shouldn't be used by submissives making introductions.
(This idea of conveying information through the form of introduction is rather like the Mafia-aware ("connected") and Mafia-member ("made") protocol described in Donnie Brasco: 'When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now, if I said instead, "This is a friend of ours," that would mean you're a made guy. Capiche?
Deportment
Flagg gives the following outlines for low, medium, and high protocols:
Low protocol:
Used in vanilla and informal situations.
- A continuous reminder of service and its responsibilities
- Permitted casual behavior, yet with specific boundaries.
- Recognition of station, orders, demands, and requests in an invisible and unobtrusive fashion.
- Behavior that reflects my intentions and desired interaction on a personal and professional level
- Awareness of accountability, despite the temptations offered by casual behavior and independence.
Medium protocol:
For most public BDSM scene environments, and during play scenes.
- Prioritize decisions in the appropriate context
- The time and place for degrees of casual behavior
- Consistent ground rules of action and responsibility
- Awareness and anticipation of my needs, wants, and desires- and those of other respected Dominants in my company as a priority
- Focus on BDSM priorities, no matter how long or strenuous the time spent in Middle Protocol
High protocol:
Normally used for short periods or during longer punishments.
- Complete attention and focus, no matter what the distractions.
- Absolute and instantaneous obedience, without delay, hesitation or question.
- Decision-making and priorities are NOT part of High Protocol; the servants wants, needs, and desires are suspended.
- All extraneous movement, speech, and thought are unacceptable. If First Protocol is in effect, concentration is demanded.
- Awareness that every move, answer, and behavior is being carefully scrutinized and judged.
See also
External links
- The Estate and Grey Book websites.
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www.ownership-possession.com
The Estate website has gone through several versions during the early 2000s has outlined some of the service training ideas of its authors, Flagg, Soulhuntre and SirC.
Although the website is very incomplete, the three authors contributions do contain enough information to fill out a composite protocol schema.
Classes
The two basic classes are dominants and submissives, with a hierarchy of status between dominants which determines some aspect of submissives' behaviour towards different dominants.
Dress and symbols
No dress codes are laid down, although wearing a dominant's collar is used as a symbol of that dominant's authority over the submissive. Collars are also used figuratively ("worthy of a collar") to represent the privilege of service.
Speech rules
A protocol for introductions is laid out, based on the status of the participants and also conveying information in their involvement in BDSM.
- Inferiors are introduced to superiors.
- Introductions are in the order of hierarchy (a submissive's dominant is at the top of their hierarchy.)
- "I would like you to meet X" indicates the interaction is vanilla.
- "I would like to introduce X to you" indicates the interaction is scene-friendly.
- "I would like to present X to you" indicates "a very formal scene protocol". This form shouldn't be used by submissives making introductions.
(This idea of conveying information through the form of introduction is rather like the Mafia-aware ("connected") and Mafia-member ("made") protocol described in Donnie Brasco: 'When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now, if I said instead, "This is a friend of ours," that would mean you're a made guy. Capiche?')
Deportment
Flagg gives the following outlines for low, medium and high protocols:
Low protocol:
Used in vanilla and informal situations.
- A continuous reminder of service and its responsibilities
- Permitted casual behavior, yet with specific boundaries.
- Recognition of station, orders, demands and requests in an invisible and unobtrusive fashion.
- Behavior which reflects my intentions and desired interaction on a personal and professional level.
- Awareness of accountability, despite the temptations offered by casual behavior and independence.
Medium protocol:
For most public BDSM scene environments, and during play scenes.
- Prioritize decisions in the appropriate context.
- The time and place for degrees of casual behavior.
- Consistent ground rules of action and responsibility.
- Awareness and anticipation of my needs, wants, and desires- and those of other respected Dominants in my company as a priority.
- Focus on BDSM priorities, no matter how long or strenuous the time spent in Middle Protocol.
High protocol:
Normally used for short periods or during longer punishments.
- Complete attention and focus, no matter what the distractions.
- Absolute and instantaneous obedience, without delay, hesitation or question.
- Decision-making and priorities are NOT part of High Protocol; the servants wants, needs and desires are suspended.
- All extraneous movement, speech, and thought are unacceptable. If First Protocol is in effect, concentration is demanded.
- Awareness that every move, answer and behavior is being carefully scrutinized and judged.
See also
External links
- The Estate website.
Archivist Note: The Estate website has been inactive for several years; multiple entries in archive.org show the same main page. The OP is no longer in control of the live website.
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