Now 83, it’s kept as a house slave in the Network and it is profoundly grateful for that privilege. It is glad to be able to be useful, domestically and in a variety of other ways almost entirely within the Network. It is glad that it can exercise at least once a day in a gym and it has kept remarkably fit. Although it was never permitted to mature as a virile man and has been a eunuch for seventy years, the Network doctors have sometimes allowed it access to testosterone so that it has had some of the feelings of being male. The useless tackle between its legs was tidied away many years back. The surgeon made a beautiful job of smoothing its groin and it’s always been grateful for that skilled job. It had a urethral reroute so it pees between its slave legs. When its genitalia were removed it was left with a prostate gland – that means that when it is permitted supplies of testosterone, it can reach a point where it can be milked and sterile fluid can gush from that urethral hole.

Testosterone is sometimes administered when a slave undergoes intensive weight-training which may be complemented by combat training. We’re all monitored for the level of testosterone in regular blood tests.

In-house, it’s elderly body is kept naked so others do get the chance to admire its surgeon’s handiwork – he did a good job. Did it write ‘he’, it shouldn’t have done – the surgeon like the patient had been neutered. Those who milk it get a good opportunity to consider its reshaped groin and when it has been denied testosterone it still gets fisted, indeed it has become a guinea pig upon which trainee fisters practice. Apart from the smoothed groin, guys sometimes take an interest in the other evidence on its ageing skin – the marks of its past, hints of the story that it will be recounting, scars of the more severe beatings, places where skin cancers or suspicious lesions were cut out whilst it was in Australia – it spent some time on an outback property operated within the Network but rather differently from London operations. Over there slaves learn what it is like to be treated as working animals.

It has been privileged to remain basically healthy into old age and it would not wish to become a burden – it has made an appropriate submission in that regard so that this slave body doesn’t become a long term drain on Network resources.

The task of an older slave, like itself, is primarily to ensure that younger members of the Network fulfil their own potential both within the Network and in the wider world. Members working in the world receive support in a variety of ways. Part of its role is ensuring that their daily routine is as smooth running as possible. Naturally world working Members have their kit prepared ready for each morning – clean gym kit, clean shirts and underwear, pressed suit, polished shoes, their plain tie and a spare checked out.

Once this slave was a driver but now its responsibility in relation to vehicles – the van, the taxi-style car, the motor bicycles and the plain push bikes – is being one of those who ensure that they are clean and polished for the new day.

There are night duties in which this slave takes its turn – all common areas are cleaned during the night – there is bread to be baked for breakfast and sometimes there are slaves under punishment to be dealt with.

As explained, eunuch slaves like itself are generally kept naked, hairless and collared. This one has been permitted to retain nipples and both are pierced – it wears a 4mm barbell through the left nipple and a 4mm ring through the right nipple. The nipples receive regular vacuum treatment, as they have for many years now, so that they stay enlarged and have a greater area for tit torture. Its septum has been pierced and, indoors, it wears a 5mm septum ring – outside it wears a retainer.

In the morning and in the evening there is a duty urinal slave – it wears a rubber hood with no eye holes, with breathing holes and with a funnel through which to receive. In the morning that means tasting and swallowing the strong first urine flows from whomsoever wishes to offer it. Of course, being a eunuch slave of lower order means that one is always available for one’s healthy and virile betters to take their pleasure with one’s mouth or arse or to require manual relief if they prefer. One soon learns the pattern and one knows which men like to cum in the evening, which in the morning, which like both and which ones need satisfaction when they wake in the night and either summon a night slave or bugger one of the sleeping lower orders. Those of us on duty in the evening, at night and in the morning have to ensure that our bodies are freshly showered and shaved and that our arses have been cleaned out – those who choose to bugger one of the sleeping slaves have to take us as we are.

There are rules and this freedom to take a slave whenever one likes is limited to healthy, virile men. The Network has also had to face up to how to cope with those of our number who have transmittable diseases. In a community like ours disease generally and diseases like hepatitis and HIV constitute a potentially significant risk and one that has to be managed effectively. We expect every member of the Network to be open about his or its behaviour, disciplined about risky behaviour and to confess any transgression. There are routines for medical inspection, blood testing and, when necessary, quarantine. On the whole these measures prove effective but, occasionally, there is an error and the Network, always reluctant to lose a member to the outside world, has to take an appropriate action.

As indicated, slaves like this one are expected to work out in the gym six days a week, usually when those who work in the world are asleep or at work. We are also subjected to periods of electrical stimulation using a remarkable piece of equipment developed in the Network’s engineering function and designed both to tone up our musculature and to provide pain and pleasure.

The equipment looks rather like a suit of armour and it has components of various sizes to suit slaves of different shapes – inside the component shells are electrodes that can address major muscles, targeting the lower back and abdomen, the butt and thighs, the calves and the pelvic floor – there’s also a dual electrode butt plug to address the sphincter. Special nipple electrodes are included and accompany the pectoral sets. There is a special black leather helmet designed to allow breathing but otherwise to isolate one from sight and sound whilst treatment proceeds. The computer run programme of stimulation provides quite a variety of sensations and training whilst avoiding putting shocks across the heart. One’s training corporal decides upon the balance between training, pleasure and pain; then one gets a liberal application of conducting gel before being strapped into the equipment. The corporal doesn’t normally tell one how long a session will last. An hour would be typical but sometimes much longer or shorter sessions are used to ensure surprise. It gathers that slaves who still have a cock, or balls or both, can expect them to be stimulated too but that doesn’t apply to this eunuch slave.

Slaves are kept on pretty strict diets to ensure that we remain in good physical condition. For eunuchs especially, care is taken to keep us from getting fat and to try to avoid osteoporosis – the combination of diet, stimulation and exercise along with stretching is designed to keep us looking and feeling good – and, for this 83 year old, the Network seems to have done a good job !

The Network has been working on the issue of old age and corporal punishment – slaves are used to corporal punishment by the time they’ve reached its age but the skin and underlying flesh isn’t quite as resilient as it was…amazing to recall that this is the aged body of the boy that grew up taking a great deal of punishment, at home, at school, in the gym and out in the forest. It continued to take a good deal of punishment through the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s, even into the 1990s but then the corporal surgeon decided to slow the pace.

First thing in the morning, before most resident members are awake, lower order slaves are encouraged to use the gym and, echoing the Greeks, do so naked but for modern shoes and socks. Each of us has a routine set by a corporal slave and we’re expected to record our performance – we are permitted to pair up for exercise and often do so to provide encouragement. Normally a corporal slave is on duty to supervise us and to ensure that we maintain our style, strength, suppleness and stamina. Its own regime includes 10 minutes on a rowing machine, a circuit of weight training exercise and stretches.

We’re normally paired for washing and shaving after that. It gets showered thoroughly by a fellow slave, including washing out its back passage and shaving any hair growth not that this old eunuch grows much hair. It reciprocates – we enjoy both feeling each other and being felt – and it enjoys being permitted to shave the genitalia of slaves whose tackle is intact. We have to be careful not to infringe disciplines about slave sex; a slave who offends might get a warning type punishment once or twice but persistent offending would probably lead to partial or even radical penectomy – in the latter the root is taken sometimes along with the prostate gland. As a eunuch for most of its life, it has been trained to assist in surgical procedures carried out on members of the Network and it has witnessed a variety of adjustments being made in members’ groins, usually the surgery is elective in that the member seeks the adjustment. When adjustments are made as a reinforcement of discipline, the member to whom an adjustment has been recommended can elect to proceed or seek an alternative way forward. On an interim basis a member may ask to be placed in a secure chastity device or to be temporarily neutered whilst reaching a decision on a surgical intervention that is normally irreversible. Members, including slaves, facing surgery are offered both counselling and opportunities to inspect and talk the possibilities and probabilities through with those who have had similar treatments. Sharing showers with other slaves, it has washed and shaved the results of earlier surgery and admired the skill with which aesthetically pleasing results can be achieved.

We have to ensure that the showers are left clean and tidy for those getting up to work in the world and the night team should already have ensured that each worker’s kit is ready for the day.

Our own indoor dress which is simply our slave collar worn with white socks and polished boots – those who still have some genitalia usually have a cock ring and may wear a chastity device or ball weights as prescribed. Most of us are pierced and wear thick steel rings or barbells through at least one of our nipples and our septum and through our genitalia where still attached. Each of us lower order slaves now get issued with a black utilikilt (www.utilikilt.com) if we have to go out or when we shall be seen by non-members. We wear the kilt with a belt and heavy stainless steel key chain on the right hip as well as with a white singlet in summer, a black T-shirt in cooler weather topped off with a black donkey jacket and a simple black hat for wintry days. Apart from a pair boots for which we are personally responsible, kit is issued as and when required and we never get to wear underpants, shorts or trousers save shorts or overalls when required for particular work. For full dress occasions, we are issued with rubber or leather chaps to wear with our collars, socks and boots and that characteristic right hand keychain.

It is possible that readers will have spotted this slave or one of its slave brothers around and about in scene venues. We enjoy being guinea pigs for sm demonstrations. In some venues, we are permitted to serve as cloakroom clerks. In some, we are quietly around clearing up bottles, glasses, used condoms and their wrappings. Most of us are limited in the services that we can offer outside the Network because of strict safe sex requirements.

Just occasionally a slave asks to submit totally on the basis of accepting the risks, indeed the probability, of disease and injury – that has inevitable consequences for its life in house and it has to live in relative isolation with a steel chastity belt when in house. However, once submitted, such a slave lives without limits in the scene – any one can do anything to it for as long as its life like that lasts. Quite apart from contracting sexually transmitted diseases which most of such slaves do – and they tend to pass diseases on so do beware of using them - a lot of the personal risks are associated with abuse - careless fisting, over-enthusiastic cbt and bondage left on too long. Medical care is usually limited to sufficient to get them back on scene suffering as they wish.

This slave appreciates that some slaves want that level of subjugation but it has been content with growing old healthily and offering a better class of service to healthy members of the Network. One real privilege of its position is being permitted physically to engage with brother slaves and with members of the Network whether its showering, shaving, servicing, massaging, paired exercise including combat even at its advanced age and being permitted to share a bed – it values the joys of physical companionship.