This comes from The Leatherman's Handbook II, Updated SecondEdition, by Larry Townsend, (c) 1983, 1989 Larry Townsend, Pub-lished by Carlyle Communications, LTD, 462 Broadway, New York, NY10013. It can be purchased in lesgay-oriented bookstores. Writeme if you want a mail-order address. This is a tentative credo for the Master: 1. I am a Master, and I accept this slave into my loving care and protection.2. I will provide the physical and emotional necessities of life for my slave, and he will know my love as I choose for him to know it.3. I will use my slave's body as I wish, such usage to be limited only by my responsibility not to damage either his physical or mental being.4. I shall establish a clearly understood set of rules for my slave and I shall enforce them in a firm but responsible manner. These rules will be for his protection as well as his discipline, and will - to the best of my ability - foresee every eventuality and control the most minute aspect of his behavior.5. Within the self-imposed limitations above, I undertake to train and discipline my slave in a manner calculated to guide him toward a perfection of obedient submission that I know he can never achieve. In doing so, it will be my goal to reward his efforts by dispensing the punishment he requires and deserves.6. I shall endeavor to provide for my slave's necessities of life, even in the event that I should die or otherwise be rendered incapable of caring for him. --ÿ