Service-oriented submission

In BDSM, service-oriented submission (or sometimes servitude) is the performance of personal tasks for a dominant partner, as part of a submissive role in a BDSM relationship. The submissive is sometimes said to be in service to the dominant. Service-oriented submission is part of a spectrum of submissive behaviors, and not all submissives are service-oriented.

In domestic service roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing services for their dominant, such as serving as a butler, waitress, chauffeur, maid or housekeeper. Many derive satisfaction from being focused on the needs of another, rather than themselves.

Service-oriented submission can be performed in ways that are either servile, or dignified. Bootblacking is a service-oriented task performed within the leather subculture.

Bootblacking may sometimes involve boot-licking as part of the activity.

The satisfaction of service submission is often combined with the pleasures of fetishes, the pleasures of humiliation, or both. A submissive may rub his or her dominant's feet because the sub enjoys providing the service, has a foot fetish, enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination.

See also

• Erotic humiliation
• Financial domination
• Maledom
• Master/slave (BDSM)
• Service top
• Sexual roleplay
• Top, bottom, switch (BDSM)

References

1. Female submission
2. Body worship
3. Male submission
4. Dominance and submission
5. Kink (sexuality)
6. Pegging (sexual practice)
7. Top, bottom, switch
8. Sexual roleplay
9. Male dominance (BDSM)
10. Erotic sexual denial
11. Forced orgasm
12. Urethral sounding
13. Erotic spanking
14. Cock and ball torture
15. Erotic asphyxiation
16. Discipline (BDSM)
17. Erotic humiliation
18. Servitude
19. Figging
20. Breast torture