Archive-name: Slaves/contract.mas
Archive-author: Larry Townsend
Archive-title: Master's Contract

 
This comes from The Leatherman's Handbook II, Updated Second
Edition, by Larry Townsend, (c) 1983, 1989 Larry Townsend, Pub-
lished by Carlyle Communications, LTD, 462 Broadway, New York, NY
10013.  It can be purchased in lesgay-oriented bookstores.  Write
me if you want a mail-order address.
 
This is a tentative credo for the Master:
 
1. I am a Master, and I accept this slave into my loving care and
   protection.
2. I will provide the physical and emotional necessities of
   life for my slave, and he will know my love as I choose
   for him to know it.
3. I will use my slave's body as I wish, such usage to be
   limited only by my responsibility not to damage either
   his physical or mental being.
4. I shall establish a clearly understood set of rules for
   my slave and I shall enforce them in a firm but responsible
   manner.  These rules will be for his protection as well as
   his discipline, and will - to the best of my ability -
   foresee every eventuality and control the most minute
   aspect of his behavior.
5. Within the self-imposed limitations above, I undertake
   to train and discipline my slave in a manner calculated
   to guide him toward a perfection of obedient submission
   that I know he can never achieve.  In doing so, it will be
   my goal to reward his efforts by dispensing the punishment
   he requires and deserves.
6. I shall endeavor to provide for my slave's necessities
   of life, even in the event that I should die or otherwise
   be rendered incapable of caring for him.
 
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