Looking backwards at my training at the Academy for slaves

I am a man with submissive feelings. I knew this from a very early age. I didn’t do anything with it until i was in my forties. Now, it feels like i have found ‘my way’ to give this submissive feelings their right place in my life. In a kind of ‘retrospective diary’ i want to share ‘my way’ with others. The bdsm-community is very diverse, and i just want to add my story to that diversity.

For me, it all started when i had the courage to enter the Academy for slaves. I found the Academy during one of the periods of have bdsm surfing, mostly leading to sites with huge collections of fetish pictures. The Academy was different for me from the outset. Of course, the pictures of the Mistresses of the Academy appealed to me. But for one reason or another i understood the Academy wasn’t just another website that was built to give quick release to my fetish desires. I felt this was about real submission, and that was what i wanted.

So, i decided to enter the Academy by paying the entrance fee. And to write an application to the HeadMistress of the Academy to start my training... I didn’t know what to expect, so when i pushed the ‘send’-button i was quite nervous. I remember how i was surprised by the quick answer of the HeadMistress, that was certainly something i didn’t expect. My application pleased Her, so i was allowed to start directly with the first course, the Basic Obedience course.

The first thing i had to do (along with learning the other slave training rules) was learning the slave training oath: ‘In everything i do i have to serve my Mistress.’ That’s an easy one, i thought, sounds nice for a submissive male, it is easy to remember, easy to say... but very difficult to comply with, as i found out a little bit later. ‘Serving the Mistress’ is truly at the core of the training at the Academy for slaves. Supreme Goddess Lorena, Who founded the Academy, became aware that much on the bdsm-scene is about submissive man seeking Dominant Women to fix their fetish. And in that case, it is the ‘so called’ Dominant Woman Who serves the needs of the ‘so called’ submissive man. If you enter the Academy you soon learn that true submission is not about your fetish needs but about the Superior Needs of your Mistress. It is in that kind of true slavery you are trained at the Academy.

Next thing i had to do is... to acquire a notebook, a pen and a ruler. Are these the supplies for my training? I do not need at least a cane? Or some fetish underwear i have to wear during the training courses? A notebook and a pen? Is this all i need to become a good slave in the opinion of the HeadMistress? And a little bit silly, isn’t it? A notebook and a pen, that is for school boys entering primary school at the age of six, not for an adult living in the computer age... But at the same time, easy to do, so why not? But i never guessed at that moment that the notebook i bought would be my close companion for the next few months...

So, this way my training at the Academy had started...

At the end of this first entry about my training at the Academy, just a few quick answers to ‘Frequently asked questions’.

Q. Slave training through the internet, does it work? Do you not need the ‘real life’ presence of a Mistress, at least to give you a good whipping from time to time?

A. The least thing i can say: it worked for me, so if you are looking for a good training opportunity, why not give it a try? Of course, if you have no intrest at all in developing the psychological component of submission and slavery, and you really long for physical pain, the Academy is not your ‘place to be’. But if you feel that submission has to do with a ‘state of mind’, then be sure the Mistresses of the Academy are very good in moulding that state of mind.

Q. You really did/do pay for it? Are you mad?
A. If i want to be a good horse rider, i pay a trainer for some good lessons. If i want to be a computer expert, i pay expensive training courses. If i want to learn how to prepare some delicious salads, i pay a little fee to the local association that organizes some salad preparation courses. So, if i want to be a good slave, and i feel i need training, i don’t have to pay anything? Are you mad?

Q. Okay, but if you have to pay, it is a commercial site after all, it has nothing to do with ‘life style’?
A. i know many horse riding trainers, to whom horse riding is a life style, and as part of that lifestyle they give some lessons. I know many nerds to whom the computer is a lifestyle, and they earn a living by giving courses. And i know many housewives to whom preparing salads is a lifestyle, and to whom sharing their experiences adds to their pleasure, even if it is with silly males in their community who never really will understand the true delights of salad preparation. So i can imagine some ‘life style Mistresses’ who at a certain moment want to make a ‘summary’ of the experience they have build up during the years, and –because They care about the lifestyle- do the effort of creating training courses for newbies and more experienced slaves, just to raise the quality of the slaves in the ‘life style community’.