gooddogbenji
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Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Toronto Status: offline
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Here is my view on it for myself personally: I agree with Michelle on the abuse thing, but I will disregard that aspect in this post and focus on the people for whom this is a kink, not a source of easy income. Service is about giving something valuable to someone. That is not necessarily money, but could be time, effort, thought, emotion, or money. If your Mistress asks for breakfast, toast and butter isn't service. Toast, butter, homemade jam, a fresh fruit garnish, a little note saying thank you or what not is service. I can understand financial domination from the perspective of someone who says that money is valuable to them, it makes the world go 'round, etc. It is giving up something they really need for someone else, a very deep kind of servitude. "I have been saving up to buy a new car, but I will give that up for you." To explain my situation, I come from a wealthy family, and have more than enough money. So money, to me, is nothing valuable. In keeping with my statement about service and value, I am not really giving up anything for her; it is not service in my books. I could give $100 to her, turn around, give the next one the same, and go from Mistress to Mistress without ever feeling servile, because I have invested nothing of value. Time, however, or emotion, or effort, I do not have more of than others. If I spend a weekend doing housework for a Mistress, that is my time which I can never get back, time which I could have spent with friends, and I gave it up to make her happy. I have served. Granted, the house would have gotten just as clean if I had sent a maid over, but then I have given nothing valuable. So, to end my long and incoherent rant, if a submissive places a high value on money, then giving it up is a very special thing, and getting it makes you know you, as a Mistress, are special. If money is no factor in their lives, then giving it up doesn't show any "real" submission, because they could give it to anyone. *Throws away soapbox, gets on all fours, and writes, "I am a soapbox, stand on me, Mistress" on his back* Yours, benji
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