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Encyclopedia > Servitude (BDSM)

In BDSM, servitude is performing tasks and following orders as an aspect of being submissive. A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ... Submissiveness is the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force. ...


Some submissives gain pleasure and satisfaction from performing services for their dominants, such as serving as a chauffeur, butler, houseboy, or maid. In human sexual behavior, a dominant is one who enjoys performing any of a variety of BDSM practices upon a submissive; or one who holds a dominant position within a relationship based upon dominance and submission (DS). ...


The pleasures of servitude are 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 or enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination. Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Sigmund Freud though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a persons body. ... In BDSM, humiliation is one psychological technique a top may use on a bottom. ... Foot fetishism is a pronounced fetishistic sexual interest in human feet. ...


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Will (NYC)
25th April 2008
Wikipedia has updated its "servitude (bdsm) page. Might want to follow suit. Thanks, Will

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servitude_%28BDSM%29

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