There are days when Fet­Life brings me the greatest joy. Recently I have had the pleas­ure of indul­ging in a con­ver­sa­tion with a curi­ous, and by her own admit­tance, new to the life­style individual.

She has many ques­tions and engages in her own soul search­ing to under­stand whether she has a sub­missive nature and whether the sexual crav­ings she is exper­i­en­cing are more fet­ish than any­thing else.

I recom­men­ded that she read this blog and my slave’s web-site as well, which she par­tially did and many inter­est­ing ques­tions popped up because of that. One of the ques­tions centred around my abil­ity to remove my slave’s free­dom at my whim. As someone that is inde­pend­ent and smart it is import­ant to her to express that inde­pend­ence through her free­dom and her drive to reach her own goals.

This lead me to a rather philo­soph­ical ques­tion lurk­ing in the back of my head. If free­dom is the expres­sion of choice or to put it as the dic­tion­ary puts it:

the power to exer­cise choice and make decisions without con­straint from within or without; autonomy; self-determination. Com­pare neces­sit

then is my slave’s choice of her slavery to me and expres­sion of her free­dom?
Have we been taught, through his­tory les­sons and the per­ils our par­ents had in the past that free­dom auto­mat­ic­ally equates to the more com­mon defin­i­tion you can find in a dictionary:

exemp­tion from external con­trol, inter­fer­ence, reg­u­la­tion, etc.

If free­dom is truly the expres­sion of choice and free­dom enables us as indi­vidu­als to make those choices than pla­cing her free­dom in my hands is my slave’s choice and thus her free­dom.
While that sounds com­plic­ated I do not believe it actu­ally is. Her slavery is an expres­sion of a free­dom given to her by the soci­ety she lives in, includ­ing the cul­tural and state assist­ance she receives by being a Cana­dian citizen.

It is also part of her free­dom and part of the slavery model I engage in with her, that she can remove that free­dom she gave me at any time.Our rela­tion­ship is unique in that she has chosen to give me some­thing that is inher­ently unique to each indi­vidual in a soci­ety and usu­ally is not shared.

Per­sonal freedom.

She chooses to restrict her free­dom and what part she does not engage in, she gives to me. By that very action she is actu­ally extend­ing my per­sonal free­dom, includ­ing her­self in a bubble that usu­ally only applies to me.

I believe that my slave and I are empowered to sus­tain a rela­tion­ship as com­plic­ated and fra­gile as this, because there is a trust model built into shar­ing free­dom which is much more demand­ing than the model we would usu­ally see in a tra­di­tional rela­tion­ship. While we care about our part­ners and admir­a­tion, love and accept­ance lead us to take many respons­ib­il­it­ies, I believe I have more.  I take respons­ib­il­ity for my slave’s phys­ical well being. That goes down to the n-th degree where I need to decide whether to send her to the doc­tor or not.

Trust is a fun­da­mental ele­ment in a suc­cess­ful envir­on­ment that thrives on free­dom. I will stip­u­late that the United States and each indi­vidual in the United States is going through this very pre­dic­a­ment at the moment. Where does per­sonal free­dom end when it comes to pro­tec­tion from ter­ror­ism and if I trust the gov­ern­ment to limit my free­dom for the greater good, how can I verify that they are doing what they say they need to do?
As a mat­ter of fact does trust not define the degree of free­dom that you engage in your­self and grant to oth­ers? I know that my trust is fun­da­mental to the way I per­ceive the world around me.  I nat­ur­ally lack trust,m so it always has been an uphill battle for me to become com­fort­able enough to allow oth­ers and myself freedom.

To me free­dom is the expres­sion of our choices and my slave has more free­dom than most people in this world. Not only because she does not have to live with an oppress­ive regime and is allowed to express her­self as an equal mem­ber of soci­ety, but also because she has the choice, the free­dom to turn a Mas­ter back into a nor­mal man.