One-line definition
Owned describes the state of belonging: being claimed and committed to by a dominant in a D/s or M/s relationship.
Full definition
In community shorthand, “owned” answers the relationship-status question: this submissive belongs to someone, usually marked by a collar or a standing commitment. Its counterpart, unowned, signals availability. The ownership is role language and relationship language at once, meaningful inside the dynamic and quite serious to those who use it.
Boundary reminder
Owned is relationship vocabulary, not a legal or moral fact: it cancels neither personhood nor rights, and never the principle that consent can be withdrawn.
Related terms
- Unowned
- Collared Submissive
- Master
- slave
- Collaring