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There is one commonality across differing nations of the world. They all now structure their laws and etiquette on the proven fact that everyone, every single person is either a Dominant or a submissive.
It started in the United States of America.
In nineteen forty six the ‘Societal Structure Amendment’ was enacted; the bill passed both the senate and congress. It was based on the preliminary findings of Alfred Charles Kinsey’s research on human sexual behaviour; his research covered human sexuality, sadomasochism, and dominance and submission. All persons over the age of eighteen were evaluated and their identification documentation updated with their classification profile. As each person reached the age of eighteen they received a letter detailing the date of their evaluation.
In the nineteen forties there were seven profile classifications; two submissive (D/s 0-1), two dominant (D/s 5-6) and three switch (D/s 2-4).
This changed in the fifties.
It was deemed that some submissive were not having their needs met; they needed someone to take more control over their lives. There were also Dominants who were not being allowed to take as much control over their submissives lives as they needed. So the classifications were amended. The D/s 0 was renamed slave, and the D/s 6 renamed Master.
Rights were removed from ‘slaves’, so that, for example, they were not able to own property, or sign lease on property, without a Dominant being the co-signatory of the agreement. It was also when the new classification of ‘Master’ was given the right to ignore their submissives, or ‘slaves’, soft-limits.
The classifications were amended again in the nineteen sixties. It was felt that too many people were being classified as slave and Master; the classification profiles changed from D/s 0-6 to D/s 0-8 to help. D/s 1-2 were submissives, D/s 3-5 were switch and D/s 6-7 were Dominants. D/s 8 was now Master and D/s 0 remained slaves.
The classifications didn’t change again until the eighties. By this point the gender that you are attracted to is of no importance; in theory being submissive or Dominant is not important either, in theory. The evaluation profiling now needs twenty-five classification instead of the existing nine; two for slaves, two for Masters and still only three for switches. The rest split between submissives and Dominants. There was no change of the rights a person had whether they were D/s 00 or D/s 01; both were slaves and both had the same rights, the same was true for the different profile submissives, Dominants and Masters. No, the reason for the expansion of the classifications is not for any legislative purpose, it is only to allow individuals to better identify compatibility with each other; it will not affect how you are treated in your life in any way.
It was also in the eighties that the evaluation processing changed. Now at the end of freshman year in high school everyone received their letter to attend the Submissive Dominant Testing Centre; the testing takes place during the first semester of their sophomore year, the results received before the start of the second. The SDTC ran all the testing centres in the continents of North America, Australasia and Western Europe. Other regions and countries had their own government approved evaluation centre and system, they had variations on the rights that slaves, submissives, Dominants and Masters had, on when a person was evaluated. They were all variations of the SDTC evaluations and procedures. The SDTC acts as a consultant in those other countries.
It is now twenty twelve; there are propositions in several states for changes to the Societal Structure Amendment.
‘Prop-31 would require that the SDTC not only provided your profile; but that they also assign you a mandatory match. This would mean that you would be automatically collared to a Dominant; and that the collaring could not be overturned for a period of six months.’
‘Prop-32 would change the conditions of who can initiate the rescinding of a collaring; so that it would have to be requested by the Dominant. The submissive who had been collared could not seek to have the collaring annulled.’
Whether these propositions will pass the ballot no-one is sure; the debates are heated and support is strong both for and against them. It is also the first time in thirty years that the classification profiles will change.
It is being simplified; and expanded again. There will now be twenty eight D/s classifications; D/s 00 to D/s 27, slave to Master. D/s 01 is submissive-1, through to D/s 26 Dominant-12. There is no-longer a classification of switch.
It is also the first time that with the D/s classification the letters sent will also inform you of your SM classification, masochist or sadist.
The sophomore class of Beacon Hills High School has just received their first letters, informing them of the dates of their evaluation. They are eager to be tested; will the results be what they want?