On the origin of the pet girl

This will be a storyhub that contains stories that are all set in the same world. The idea is to have a timeline represented in the main thread that starts in the roman empire and continues into the present (or maybe even the future?) and details an alternative history in which petplay has become an integral part of society.

Each time period will have its own mini storyhub containing threads that take place in that time period. I will try to focus on the main thread containing the world building first, but have already started writing short stories set in the world. You are very welcome to add your own stories as long as they are set in the same world. I have now finished the main historical time line, though it is very focused on western and central Europe, simply to make it easier for me to finish. You are very welcome to expand on that focus and add more lore. The thread is now PUBLIC!

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The first recorded instance of keeping women as pets can be found during the early roman empire. A roman senator, well liked around the upper crust of rome's elite is said to have employed a number of slaves to act as dogs and cats during one of his lavish orgies. The stunt, originally just intended as a novelty, turned out to be extremely popular. So much so, that the 'pet' girls became a staple of the senators orgies.

The **** girls themselves, soon trained to crawl and behave like the animals they impersonated, became popular as well and turned into highly sought after gifts. This in turn only served to increase the senators high standing and influence.

It didn't take long for the other powerful and wealthy to imitate this new fad and create their own staples of pet girls. Some of them gifts in the form of the originals, most newly trained slaves that took on the forms of an ever increasing number of different animals.

The trend only ballooned in popularity once the owners of these pets started experimenting more. While the first generation of pet slaves were simply naked **** girls, crawling and imitating their chosen form nude, further evolutions were fitted with fake ears and tails. More and more accessories were developed and increasingly ornate designs produced. Whole industries creating custom made collars, leashes and other decorations sprang up.

The prestige of owning a pet girl only increased as the craze seemed to grow with every orgy and every year. Pets were no longer just fixtures of orgies, but regularly paraded at public events. Their looks, training and accessories became contests of wealth and style. And with this, the trend that were pet girls was introduced to the more general public of Rome.

The next big step was undertaken almost two decades after the first appearance of the pet girl hype. A young patrician from a fallen family unexpectedly began showing of his own pet girl. Strange, as his associates were sure that the poor noble didn't have the means to support a **** girl in addition to his own family.

Which was why the news soon spread throughout high society that the lad had trained his own wife, a pure-blooded roman woman, into his pet.

It caused an uproar.

Keeping slaves, non-romans, as pets was one thing. Those barbarians were not cultured and honestly barely human anyway. But treating his own wife, a citizen from a minor pratrician famioly at that, like a pet ****? Many were outraged and the young patrician soon lost his low-ranking post as a tax collector. That said, while the rich and mighty of Rome felt affronted, the well-off but not quite rich were more open to the idea. It didn't take long for others to copy him. Within only a few years it became more and more common for the young middle class of Rome to have their wifes act the part of pet during public outings.

Soon enough even the higher class of rome started to follow suit.

It was in 99 CE that the now well aged tradition of pet girls reached a new stage and spread outside of the city of Rome itself.

The caesar himself, Trajan, made a public appearance in the senate. At his feet, his wife Pompeia Plotina kneeled naked on a plush pillow with an ornate golden collar adorning her neck. The message was clear and within a week, the senate was no longer filled with senators and their **** pet girls, but instead senators leading their pet wifes by their leashes.

In the same vein, the practice quickly spread throughout the empire. Only 50 years after their first appearance, pet girl's had conquered the roman empire.