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2009.01.11 11:05:48
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By Steven S. Davis "Total Power Exchange" was coined by Steven S. Davis in the newsgroup
alt.sex.bondage during his debates with Jon Jacobs in the mid 1990's. 
In 1997 Davis gave this definition (apologies for Davis' writing style and use of
"hir" as a Politically Correct replacement for "him/her" or "them"):
A TPE (Total Power Exchange) relationship, sometimes described as an
absolute lifestyle d&s relationship (that such relationships can actually be neither "total" or "absolute" is agreed; these are ideal states to be worked towards but which will not be achieved, which is why TPE may be better seen as a process or goal than as a state), is a relationship in which no impediment to the exercise of the owner's power is accepted (some may, of course, exist, and what prudent owners do is to avoid direct collisions with these impediments, while working to overcome those that can be overcome (since the laws of gravity can't be overcome, a sane owner isn't going to ask a slave to fly (w/o appropriate equipment, of course), nor will a sensible owner try
push a slave into things that are hard limits for hir (but the owner might push a slave up against what the slave thinks are hard limits but which sie can in fact overcome)). Such things as safewords, contracts, negotiated limits, and anything else which recognizes / acknowledges / formalizes limits on the owner's power are inimical to TPE.
"Internal Enslavement" and "Total Power Exchange" cover much of the same ground. However, we feel that there are some marked problems with the term TPE.
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