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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1

Not factually correct. Your knowledge is not impressive.

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 neither is your size. 

 

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ORIGINAL: awmslave

I notice this kind of (hidden) bitterness towards professional dominance pops up often on this message board. What is your problem? It has little to do with pros, look into yourself.

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ORIGINAL: hardbodysub

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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx

It's called supply and demand...
You will find that many female subs and slaves are treated extremely well, also....

True, but there's something that you're missing here. If you insist on using an economic analogy, then you must understand that the supplier is obligated to provide the product or services to the buyer in return for the payment made. A customer/supplier relationship is very different from domme/sub. The two situations can coexist, but it seems very unlikely that the money doesn't change anything. While it's true that a domme is still free to decide she will or will not do, as soon as economic payment is involved the waters begin to get muddied in regard to who is calling the shots.

Pro dommes - gotta love 'em. Lifestyle dommes - gotta love them, too. Non-pro dommes requiring tribute - treading on some pretty thin ice here. Depends on the situation. The reason often stated for a non-pro domme to require tribute is to ensure the legitimacy and seriousness of the sub. Considering the number of complaints from dommes about time-wasting phony subs, this idea has some merit. Willingness to provide monetary compensation, however, doesn't necessarily correlate with sincerity. Rather than showing legitimacy and seriousness on the sub's part, it may only be a measure of who has extra cash to throw around, or who is less wary of potential scammers on the domme side. It's also possible that the opposite is true: more legitimate and sincere subs may be less willing to pay tributes, because they see this situation as a "pay for services" economic exchange, rather than a real domme/sub relationship.

In a nutshell: gotta be careful about what is assumed.

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ORIGINAL: hardbodysub
True, but there's something that you're missing here. If you insist on using an economic analogy, then you must understand that the supplier is obligated to provide the product or services to the buyer in return for the payment made. A customer/supplier relationship is very different from domme/sub. The two situations can coexist, but it seems very unlikely that the money doesn't change anything. While it's true that a domme is still free to decide she will or will not do, as soon as economic payment is involved the waters begin to get muddied in regard to who is calling the shots.

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Pro dommes - gotta love 'em. Lifestyle dommes - gotta love them, too. Non-pro dommes requiring tribute - treading on some pretty thin ice here. Depends on the situation. The reason often stated for a non-pro domme to require tribute is to ensure the legitimacy and seriousness of the sub.