The History of Beauty's Awakening

Beauty's Awakenhing is a BDM or D/s Role-Play enviroment in the online world, Second Life, and based upon the three Beauty book by Anne Rice. Those books are: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release. They are a guide, not a script for our play, and ALL actions are between consenting Adults. We neither condone nor tolerate unvoluntary acts or any involvement by those under age. Our aim is mutual pleasure,satisfaction and fun.

In order to fully understand Beauty's Awakening, one must first know what led me to create it....

On January 1, 2007, a one-sim place called Bonds of Beauty opened. It featured the Kingdoms of Netherlands and Sodomy, the Village of Midian and a forest. Bonds was my first Beauty RP experience, and it was there I met my dear friend, Leslie Lightworker, who was Queen of Sodomy.

All was not to my liking there, and in February, Jasmine Dae (who died in RL, December 2007) took me to a not-yet opened place, called simply Beauty. Beauty was owned by Jan Ogg, a Dutchman, who was himself owned by Duchess Juliana. The Queen of Beauty was Allure Somme. Originally, Allure was to be the Queen in Bonds, but had been banned. Allure's reputation on the Bonds forum was so bad I almost did not even apply there when I learned she was Queen.

I decided not to let others tell me what to think, and applied. It was the beginning of a deep and lasting friendship. I promised Allure I would always defer to her in public, so some who knew neither of us well thought I was her sub. In fact, I was her confidant, her counselor in public and private and her dance partner until she died (in RPI. I arranged her 10-day Coronation celebration (with much help), an auction that raised $182,000L for Give Kids the World (Google it). And edited the newspaper.

When the stress became too much, our Queen died. I conducted her funeral. She was the heart of Beauty and with her passing there began a decline, and Beauty closed at the end of September, 2008/ The last event was another auction that raised another $100,000L for the same charity.

I was but one of the more than 530 members of Beauty and could not be in all places or see it from all vantages. It would be good if others posted memories as well.

I bought the sim now named Beauty in April, 2009, and opened Beauty's Awakening in late June. In later posts I will share items I wrote for the Colchester Courier.

Before I close, I want to mention Reenie Eiren and Gypsy Delicioso, without whom much that is and will be in Beauty's Awakening would simply not exist. Thank you!

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