CallaFirestormBW
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One question I always have when this topic comes up is "What constitutes 'tribute'?" Is it just the money thing? Money is nothing more than a form of energy. I ask my s-types to sweat for me... to bleed for me... to offer up hours of their lives for me... again... energy. In some ways, what I demand from those who submit to me seems more valuable than a few dollars. I won't take on an online-only submissive. One reason I won't do so is because there is nothing xhe can do for me online that I can't do for myself. Hir capacity to expend energy on my behalf is -extremely- limited. One thing that an online-only submissive -could- do is give me monetary tribute. If I got my d-type high from that kind of energy, I don't see that it would be any more harmful than those of us who demand a 'pound of flesh'. It doesn't work for me, so I don't do it, but really, I don't see why people get so worked up about it, and yet have few issues with a d-type demanding sexual communion at whim, demanding the right to leave an s-type's flesh striped and raw, demanding the s-type's absolute attention to cleaning the dishes or scrubbing the bathroom. I think people are -way- too fixated on little green (in the US) strips of paper with numbers and pictures plastered all over them. They've forgotten the basic concept -- that money is just an analogy for an exchange of energy between people--it makes an idea tangible. Getting hung up on one kind of energy exchange being ok, and another kind being, somehow, tainted makes no sense whatsoever. Calla Firestorm
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*** Said to me recently: "Look, I know you're the "voice of reason"... but dammit, I LIKE being unreasonable!!!!" "Your mind is more interested in the challenge of becoming than the challenge of doing." Jon Benson, Bodybuilder/Trainer
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