What the Hell is a Djinn ?

"Please allow me to introduce myself
I am a man of wealth and taste"

From The Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil"


Don't believe the hype, I'm not the Devil in disguise even if a few people see me as "the Ennemy Within" of the community because I sometimes bring to the light some internal problems that they don't care about and that they would prefer to stay ignored by most...

I consider myself very wealthy of the gifts of submission I received over the years from the great subs and slaves who serve or served me on SL, and  also of the number of quality Dom/mes and quality Subs who honor me of their friendship and  the insights of their own experience.

I always felt that something was missing in my life, until I came across the SL BDSM scene in 2007 at Lady Genvieve Hutchence's now legendary Supreme Fetishist Club.

I started my journey in the art of Dominance among all the great people who were connecting there in the good old times and are doing it again now since we recently reopened it  in association with the BDSM School of Submission (owned and brillantly managed by our long-time friend Angelica Pickles, who proves you everyday that you can be a submissive and run a sim successfully if you ever were biased to the point of doubting it) where I was already teaching each Tuesday with great pleasure !


Let's now answer the title question, after all that's the goal of this post, sorry for the long introduction but I am in wordy mood !

Djinns are spirits with magical powers in the oriental myths, like the one in Aladin's lamp. They are usually called "Genie" in english, "Djinn" or "Jinn" being the old oriental word for them that  the mythology specialists use.

They are the masters of shapechanging and can take  the form of any human, animal or vegetal. They can also become invisible at will and can control human minds if they wish so. They are born never good or evil and like humans are free to choose their side in the fight between Heaven and Hell.

I choosed to design my avatar around a "Djinn" metaphore as  I see an strong analogy between that powerful creature and the kind of Dominant I aim to be for my subs, using my "Sensual Magic" (cf Patrick Califia's book) to fulfill their kinkiest secret wishes, guiding their mind with the power of my words, taking control of their actions when needed...

I see also a very interesting parallelism with the Djinn myths in the way a Cyber-Dominant sitting in front of his computer do handle his subs remotely though his avatar without  any visual or physical contact between the RL individuals, like if he was an invisible spirit taking possession of their submissive souls...

Djinn having as I said before the power to take  an animal form if they wish,  I picked the one of a Tiger for my avatar body,  as I have a strong affinity with all felines (I sometimes growl, meaow and purr in RL too, my RL partner even nicknamed me "The Man who speaks with Cats" because I exchange animal sounds with all the kitties I meet)  and the Tiger is the feline species that in my view matches the most my roaring and unbending personality...

Final point, legends also said you can recognize Djinns by the strange and mysterious way they talk, so that gives me a lazy excuse for my bad habit of making complex lenghty sentences full of innuendos that are too often more confusing than clear !