BDSM BDSM is a variety of often Eroticism, erotic practices or Sexual roleplay, roleplaying involving Bondage (BDSM), bondage, Discipline (BDSM), discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given ...

, service-oriented submission (or sometimes servitude) is the performance of personal tasks for a dominant partner, as part of a

submissive Deference (also called submission or passivity) is the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors. Deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of re ...

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 Waiting staff ( BrE), waiters () / waitresses (), or servers (AmE) are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested. Waiting staff ...

, 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 either

servile Servitude may refer to: Persons * Conscription * Indentured servitude * Involuntary servitude * Penal servitude * Service * Service-oriented submission * Slavery Property * Servitude (Roman law) * Equitable servitude, a term of real estate law ...

, or dignified ways. Bootblacking is a service-oriented task performed within the

leather subculture Leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around Human sexual activity, sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, Bondage harness, harnesses, or other items. Wearing le ...

. Bootblacking may sometimes involve boot-licking as part of the activity. The satisfaction of service submission is often combined with the pleasures of

fetishes A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent non-material value, or powers, to an object. Talismans and amulets ...

, the pleasures of

humiliation Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being Humility, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has ...

, or both. A submissive may rub his or her dominant's feet because the sub enjoys providing the service, has a

foot fetish Foot fetishism, also known as foot partialism or podophilia, is a pronounced sexual interest in feet. It is the most common form of sexual fetishism for otherwise non-sexual objects or body parts. Characteristics For a foot fetishist, points ...

, enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination.

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