The Joy of Collars and Collaring 1: A Collar For Everyone Who Wants One

"That enough collar for ya, girl?"

Collaring has a great deal of psychological meaning for many kinky folks. For some it is an analogue for a wedding band for kinksters, symbolizing the collarer's ownership of the collar wearer. And for others, it's just another bit of bondage gear. There are no civic structures for kinky relationships like there are for vanilla relationships (i.e., marriage) so these things vary.

This turned out to be important and useful when I decided to create an alternate world where everyone is into dominance and submission. I figured most would be into maledom/femsub stuff, like here on Earth, but there would also be femdom/malesub relationships, as well as gay relationships, asexuals and so forth. There just wouldn't be any, or very rarely, vanilla sexual relationships. It's not that there is any bigotry against vanilla sex, it's just that most people on Collar World wouldn't find it nearly as fun and sexy as kinky sex.

Plus, I didn't want bigotry to be a major theme in the world. “Bigotry is bad”is a good lesson but one well known to most who are into kinky sex. I wanted it to be more of a thought experiment: what kind of world would a world with just kinky people in it be? How would kink culture express itself if it were the dominant culture?

And that's where collaring comes in. To start with, of course, there's a personal collar, where a Master or Mistress gives a sub a collar proclaiming her or him the property of said Master or Mistress, with text that typically says, “XXX, property of ZZZ.” It would probably be the most common sort of collar, and the most sought-after collar.

There would also be Free Use collars, for women who want to have sex with just about anyone, anytime, with some kind of clearly visible hatching that lets Free Use collars be easily identifiable in a crowd or on the street.

There would also be institutional collars, or work collars, that let people know the wearer is on business. Women who have personal collars might have a work tag they hang from one of their personal collar rings, or maybe they'd wear two collars. It would be a matter of taste and practicality.

But work collars would also serve to let women who want a collar but aren't currently in a relationship go about their day without being collared by Masters looking for slaves.

And there would be asexual collars for men and women who don't want to be bothered, or whom are actually asexual, and Temple of the Collar collars for those in service or claiming shelter at a Temple of the Collar, as in the opening of Collar Dread. (I'll save a full explanation of the Temple of the Collar for another post.)

Of course, most Mistresses and Masters wouldn't wear collars at all. They'd be putting collars on the submissives. The lack of a collar would suffice to declare their status.

The point is, on Collar World most people can find a collar (or lack of one) that they are psychologically comfortable wearing. Everyone who wants to feel owned, and most women on Collar World do, can feel owned, generally by a personal Master or Mistress.

I did do one thing in my Collar World stories that I had to for the sake of their salability in the marketplace. And I made some other changes as a result, but more about that in another column. I think I've laid the groundwork here.

Collar World Is The Fetish Fuel Future

So this is the definition of a fetish fuel future from TV Tropes:

>Any fictional setting where the sexual kinks of the author are considered normal by society.


Well, in Collar World everyone considers maledom/femsub sex slavery to be absolutely normal. So, got me, Collar World fills that bill. But I think where Collar World may differ from your garden variety fetish fuel future is that I play with it, parodying Earth normal sexual institutions with their Collar World equivalents.

For example, on Collar World, instead of marriage, we have a Personal Collaring, either done privately or in a big public ceremony with a Worst Man to have a fake sword fight with the groom as he claims his bride as she kneels shackled at the Auction Post while the moms cry and the dads comfort them.

Or instead of elopement, a young man kidnaps the apple of his eye when she turns 18, hooding her and binding her and taking her to the nearest police kiosk to register it as a collaring so no one will think it's a kidnapping, followed by several days or weeks of balls-to-the-wall sex.

Or there's the tradition of Scary Aunts and Crazy Uncles. In traditional Deep Southern Gothic culture, they used to lock up unmarriageable aunts and uncles in the attic to keep them from being a social embarrassment. But on Collar World, crazy aunts are enslaved to scary uncles, with the hope that they'd hit it off sexually and sane each other up, killing two birds with one stone, as it were.

And of course, there are all sorts of collars o Collar World, not just personal collars for the marrying sort, but free use collars for the promiscuous, business collars for the corporate go-getters and asexual collars for those who don't want to be bothered. Fitting in on Collar World is mostly a matter of finding a collar that fits comfortably on a woman's neck.

Collar World was originally conceived by me as a thought experiment. Kink exists in our society in contrast to vanilla sex, i.e., “normal” sex. But what if kink was the norm?.What kind of world might you have.

Well, you could look at such a world as a utopian ideal, which is what I suspect most fetish fuel futures are.  But you could also look at it as a fun way to parody our Earth institutions.

And that's what Collar World is.