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In the virtual world of Second Life there are a few ways that these D/s relationships become established. There are BDSM gathering places where Dominants and submissives can go to meet. In these locations, a person can identify themselves as Dominant or submissive by the look of their avatar, the way they dress, and what they write in their profile. Dominants can approach submissives, or the other way around, in a predictably in a ritualized way. There are also slave auctions. These are places where a person who wishes to be submissive can go to the owner of the auction house and list themselves for sale to the highest bidder. The act of being sold into slavery enhances the experience of submission for many people. The financial act of buying a person enhances the act of Dominance for many people. When the economy of Second Life was better, there were people who made their real life living running virtual slave auction houses in Second Life. Occasionally, there are submissives who will sell themselves to a Dominant directly without going through an auction house, but these transactions are risky because the person has not be vetted through the auction house management.

Into the virtual world of Second Life comes Yaelle. Yaelle is a prostitute. Yaelle uses the model of selling her sexual services to many men for money. Specifically, Yaelle is a cam girl. She provides live nude sex shows for an Internet webcam network. The way that these networks function is that customers sign up through a common commercial web site which then connects to the girls’ homes where they do their performances. From the poor quality of Yaelle’s webcam and the angle she looked at the screen, it is likely that all she had to serve her customers was a laptop with an integrated camera and a fairly slow Internet connection.  On camera, she took off all of her clothing, exposing her breasts and aiming the camera at her crotch as she spread her vaginal lips.  Yaelle told me she wanted to sell herself to me as a virtual slave.

Yaelle had explored some parts of Second Life, but did not fully understand everything she saw. One place she must have visited was a place where women and men sold themselves as virtual slaves in a Second Life slave auction. What she saw was that the prices that these slaves could sell for was as high as $300.00, and she wanted this money. What Yaelle didn’t understand is that Dominant and submissive relationships in Second Life function the way that they do in real life, old-guard, Master/slave relationships, and not the way that they do with cam girls and their customers. Depending on their agreement, a Dominant may require that their submissive be online at specific times, that the submissive follow daily physical regimens when they are not online, but most importantly, that submissives are monogamous property of their Dominants. A submissive does not have the option of serving more than one Dominant unless their Dominant specifically instructs them to.

More importantly, what Yaelle did not understand is that the motivation of a submissive to serve a Dominant is not money at all. A submissive seeks the care and protection of a Dominant because they need to feel the experience of vulnerability and being under the control of another person. If a Dominant is good, they can provide the experience of making a submissive feel genuinely vulnerable, even remotely. A person who is not familiar with the D/s scene might ask the question, what would motivate a submissive to follow the Dominant’s instructions when given over electronic media. The answer is they are already motivated by their own fantasies, and all that a Dominant does is help them live what they are already fantasizing about every day.

Yaelle also did not understand enough about the technology of Second Life. On the night that I met Yaelle and paid for her as my Second Life property, she made it clear that I could lock a slave collar on her. In Second Life, a slave collar is an object that an an avatar can wear like a piece of clothing. But more importantly for BDSM play in Second Life, a slave collar contains a script, a piece of computer programming that extends the functionality of Second Life, that gives the owner of the collar control of their slave who is wearing it. When the owner is in-world, they have a control panel that allows them to pose a slave in a variety of submissive positions. The owner also has the option of blinding the slave, preventing the slave from wearing clothing, and even of preventing the slave from communicating with anyone but their Dominant.

More important than the way that the Dominant can control the slave when they are in-world is that the Dominant can monitor their slave whenever they are logged in to Second Life. When I purchased Yaelle, I turned on the monitoring feature on her collar that allowed me to see what she was typing to other people in-world, and what other people were saying to her in both public and private chat. In two of these conversations, it was clear that Yaelle was trying to sell her services as a submissive to other Dominants. It is possible that these Dominants who saw Yaelle’s collar asked her to remove it using voice chat. I was then notified in my email when Yaelle took off the collar that I had locked onto her avatar the night before. When I received this notification that Yaelle had run away, it was clear that she was not the submissive she represented herself to be, but a whore who was trying to sell her services to other men as a cam girl.

My Image of Yaelle.

Webcam image of Yaelle.

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