The Honored Matres are characterized by their extremely violent tendencies and their ability to imprint a man sexually, amplifying his orgasmic response to such an ecstatic (and addictive) height that the victim of an imprinting is a willing slave of the Honored Matre who “marks” him. Both of these qualities are presumably evolutions of the unbridled sexual energies of the Siaynoq communion once enjoyed by the Fish Speakers with the God Emperor Leto Atreides II, once those energies ceased to have a singular focus. The sexual imprinting practiced by the Honored Matres hearkens back to the obvious roots of this order in the original Bene Gesserit, from which they also took elements of the deep prana-bindu training. Both the imprinting and the prana-bindu training were modified and enhanced to give the Honored Matres much more potent abilities in these two areas than their Bene Gesserit progenitors.

PS — On the topic, I just found some sick illustrations of the Dune universe, by Mark Zug. I am sure there are other fans that frequent Tim’s site.

Do you need to “get a life” only when you start wanting to try it in real life, or should that disclaimer come way sooner?

Having not got all that much experience with dominance & submission, but some, I don’t see how it’s bad for consenting adults to do this type of thing–strikes me as a possible profound means for exploring power dynamics.