Editing Service-oriented submission

{{Short description|Erotic practice}}
In [[BDSM]], '''service-oriented submission''' (or sometimes '''servitude''') is the performance of personal tasks for a [[Dominance and submission|dominant]] partner, as part of a [[Dominance and submission|submissive]] role in a [[BDSM|BDSM relationship]].<ref name=V>{{cite web|work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/slutever-lifestyle-slave-bdsm-karley-sciortino/|author=Sciortino, Karley|date=January 31, 2018|title=A 'Lifestyle Slave' Is More Than a Sub Who Does All Your Chores for Free}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shahbaz|first=Caroline|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/960040878|title=Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist.|date=2016|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=978-1-315-29532-9|oclc=960040878}}</ref>

In domestic service roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing services for their dominant, such as serving as a butler, [[Waiting staff|waitress]], chauffeur, maid or housekeeper.<ref name=V/> Many derive satisfaction from being focused on the needs of another, rather than themselves.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Easton|first=Dossie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793001222|title=The new bottoming book|date=2001|publisher=[[Greenery Press|Greenery]]|others=Janet W. Hardy, Angela Beck|isbn=978-1-890159-87-0|edition=New|location=San Francisco, Calif.|oclc=793001222}}</ref>

Service-oriented submission can be performed in either [[wikt:servile|servile]], or dignified ways.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} Bootblacking is a service-oriented task performed within the [[leather subculture]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-12|title=Bootblacking by Niki Smith|url=https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bootblacking/|access-date=2021-10-12|website=Oh Joy Sex Toy|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-11|title=A Top's Guide to Being in the Bootblacking Chair|url=https://www.devianceanddesire.com/2016/05/bootblacking/|access-date=2021-10-12|website=Deviance & Desire|language=en-GB}}</ref>

Bootblacking may sometimes involve [[Boot worship|boot-licking]] as part of the activity.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-18|title=Inside the Surprisingly Intimate Fetish of Boot Licking|url=https://www.out.com/sex/2019/9/18/boot-licking-fetish-leather-bdsm-bootblacks|access-date=2021-10-12|website=www.out.com|language=en}}</ref>

The satisfaction of service submission is often combined with the pleasures of [[Sexual fetishism|fetishes]], the pleasures of [[Erotic humiliation|humiliation]], or both. A submissive may rub his or her dominant's feet because the sub enjoys providing the service, has a [[Foot fetishism|foot fetish]], enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

==See also==
*[[Erotic humiliation]]
*[[Financial domination]]
*[[Male dominance (BDSM)|Maledom]]
*[[Master/slave (BDSM)]]
*[[Service top]]
*[[Sexual roleplay]]
*[[Top, bottom, switch (BDSM)]]

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