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Title
Within the Ownership and
Leather subcultures, titles are often placed before
a name to indicate status.
This is more common amongst dominants and owners, with titles such as
"Master", "Mistress", "Mr", and "Sir". For submissives and property who
do use titles, "slave", "boy", and "girl" are the most common.
A title prefixing a name is distinct from a term
of address such as "master" in "yes, master"; and from a role,
such as being a master, or serving as a
slave.
There are two views on the appropriateness of using titles: first, that
they are part of the individual's name and their own choice; secondly,
that titles have to be conferred by someone else - for example, that
"master" as a title is only granted by one's peers at the cap stage of
"earning your leathers", or that "sir" and "lord" can only be inherited
or granted by a monarch.
These differences of opinion can raise etiquette
problems, as offence can be caused by the refusal or insistence on
including a title when using a person's name.
The word "title" is also used to refer to Leather contests which grant a
title such as
International
Master/slave to the winners.See also
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