Sensualists

The Sensualists Guild primarily focuses on training slaves and thralls for sensual uses. The Guild trains slaves for non-sensual uses as well. More broadly, the Guild studies and teaches sensuality to any Passionate. The Guild offers its training partly as a public service, to foster greater passions. Many Guild classes are open to the public, and some Guild trainers give lessons to citizens as well as slaves and thralls. However, only slaves and thralls can receive the full training program, since it's based on bondage and submission.

Lower-level training focuses on obedience and personal health, while upper-level training focuses on sensuality. Many slaves and thralls are only given lower-level training, because they aren't intended for sensual uses. Some Guild students are owned by the Guild until they are sufficiently trained. Other students are owned by citizens, but are sent to the Guild for classes. It's not uncommon for a citizen to become a thrall to receive full training. In some families, including some aristocratic houses, when a young person comes of age, he/she is made a thrall of the Guild. At the end of the training, he/she is more eligible for marriage: a passionate marriage is a prosperous marriage.

Guild training is divided into Circles of Sensuality, like levels. There are five Circles:

Self-Discovery Presentation Connection Sensual Arts Intimate Arts