This is the prelude to the story of Robert Web. The story contains Dom/Sub, BDSM, Pet Play and in later chapters Insest, Warfare, and death. If any of these subjects are not your style, don't bother reading.
The year is 2399. It has been well over two hundred years since the Pet Association laws were passed around the world and in all off world colonies and effectively became the law of the land. This action had brought the world together, and a world government was agreed. It also made all lawyers and politicians unemployed, which is, in itself, an achievement not to be considered lightly. This only occurred due to the heroic actions of the Owner of the Pet Association, Robert Web, when he identified, and fought hand to hand with the enemy. He commanded the Owners and Pets that fought by and died by his side, accompanied by AI Androids that he had designed and the PA had created for that purpose. And an army of animals, that somehow he could communicate with. The coordinated actions of the PA had saved all of humanity and all life on the world and on all of it's off world colonies.
Now under PA laws, then as now, there is only one type of slave in the world. Only those who have been caught committing specific crimes against other humans or Androids, can become a slave. Those crimes are reviewed by a Judge, and if upheld, the only sentence is permanent slavery. Crime is now almost non-existent, and the world now has the lowest number of slaves per percent of the population in recorded history.
Slaves are so rare, they are hardly ever seen. And it is shocking to those who see one for the first time. They are the only individuals who wear the golden coloured cloth shackles on wrists and ankles and neck collar of the same unbreakable material designed and created by Robert Web. Powered by the renewable batteries designed and created by the same man, they were capable of shocking the wearer to insensibility, without causing permanent damage. A verbal, electrical, or sign language command by their owner, will cause the shackles to snap together, making it impossible for a slave to escape their fate.
There are now many Pets who wear collars of their Owners, and many of these Pets are always in the nude, but while slaves were always technically nude, only they wear the golden coloured shackles. No Pet would ever consider wearing them, and no Owner would ever consider asking a Pet to do so, just as no Owner would ever insist a Pet be nude. That is because Owners, are chosen by the Pet, not the Pet the Owner. And a Pet may leave an Owner that doesn't provide them with what they need or want, at any time.
Owners are there to help Pets learn from their Spirit Animals or their Spirit Vocations. Taking care of their Pets, helping them with their needs and wants is the Owner's only job. Some Pets needs are entirely of a sexual nature, but since Robert Web, no Owner, Pet or non-owner, would ever consider trying to force another person to do something they didn't want to do, be it to have sex or anything else. That is the crime almost all slaves have committed, forcing themselves on others, or forcing someone do anything they did not want to do or believe. And belief is part of the key. Owners fill the same role of Shamans, the keepers of what may be and is often considered to be the oldest religion in the world.
On our world society, every individual is allowed to believe their own beliefs, as long as they do not cause harm to anyone else, than at any other time in the world. I know of no one, who doesn't believe anyone else in the past, had more freedom then they do now. Today, there are no rich, there are no poor, and there is no one who is uneducated or hungry. If someone needs or wants something, and it doesn't harm anyone else or society, they are provided it.
Every child is taught every religion, we have been able to identify, from past records. Every child is allowed to determine which religion, they want to follow. We have Christians, Muslims, Jews, Witches, Wizards, Hindi, all the ten thousand known religions, including of course, Shamans and those who follow the Shamanic faith. It takes years for these to be taught. Schooling is not divided up into different schools, collages, universities, but is continuous with patient Android teachers, and starts when the child is three, until their brains stop their growth, at around the age of twenty five.
In the past, students were taught specific subjects. Today they are taught all subjects. In the past, if someone couldn't be taught by the same methods, they were classed as special needs. But now all children are taught, in the way each individual learns, as no one, learns in exactly the same way. Occasionality, a brilliant mind, like that of Robert Web, is found, and encouraged to learn more, as he did. Some do, and some don't. But everyone who can learn, is taught as much and for as long, as they wish. Some insist on learning to their dying day, which now, is expected, with the medical compounds provided by Robert Web, to be well over three hundred, and all of it healthy and youthful. We do not yet know how long we can live.
The world population had surged by the time of Robert's birth, to over fifteen billion, over half were living in fear and hunger. The rich few, less than one tenth of a percent of a percent, owned eighty five percent of the worlds wealth. The a few off world colonies existed on the Moon and Mars, Venus was being terraformed, without success until Robert stepped in, and a colony existed on Europa and Titan.
During the time he was growing up, the PA, a secret society devoted to the Shamanic religion, had been growing in influence, and their practice of Owner and Pet, had been developed thousands of years before, as a way to allow a few individuals to continue their ancestral practices. At the time of his birth, the PA owned million of acres of lands through controlling companies that they owned. They had enough influence, through charitable contributions, to convince governments to ignore their worship.
There were other secret societies that followed the PA example, when they finally recognised what the PA was doing. Several societies of Dominants and their Submissive partners, where participants were often called master or mistress, daddy or mummy and slave, bitch, or whore. Other societies followed BDSM practices, and their participants often used the same nomenclature to define those who participated as the previous society. And while these others continue to exist, much reduced, they must all follow the same rules as society as a whole, where no, means no. No longer does a dominant or Master call their submissive a slave or whore however, as whores no longer exist, and neither do slaves, except for that one category of slaves.
Slaves, such as my former wife. I don't know what she committed, only that she did break that law of forcing someone to do something they didn't want to do. She admitted she did, as they had enough evidence to prove she could not refute the charge. After her trial, I purchased her at auction, for grand sum of one hundredth of a credit, the smallest sum of money we now use world wide.
The rules for keeping slaves were and are ridged. Owning a slave is expensive in time and care, and in the past with Money. No one can kill a slave and not go unpunished. The Penalty for doing so is to become a slave. No permanent damage can be inflicted on a slave, without permission of a Judge, and all such actions are carefully monitored and recorded by and with the PA. If a slave owner wants to, they can apply to have all limbs of a slave removed, and if approved, the slave will have the approved surgery. Then the owner needs to ensure all the slave's needs have to be taken care of. But not wants. A slave has no wants, only needs. Only their Master's or Mistress's wants count.
A slave can be rented out, for instance, as a labourer, secretary, crane operator, almost anything, including a sex toy, and their owner, will get whatever money they earned. Many slaves labour not in offices, farms, or industry, but in sex centres. But the owner determines how a slave is to be treated, or used.