undergroundsea -> RE: Oral Servitude (10/30/2008 3:55:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CdnExplorer I don't really follow the concept of sex as service. I like sex to be a bit romantic and sensual, and calling it service makes it sound more like a transaction. I don't think acts of service and romance and sensuality are mutually exclusive. There is a book that presents five different ways people express affection: physical affirmation, verbal affirmation, spending quality time, gifts, and acts of service. I think cunnilingus has potential to span physical affirmation, spending quality time, and acts of service. While some posts in this thread ask whether providing oral sex is an act of service, I think the real question is whether oral sex is an act of service that expresses submission. Let's consider acts of service in general versus this specific act. I think an act of service is that that has one person expend physical or mental energy for the sake of providing comfort, convenience, or pleasure to another (or others) without receiving the same type of comfort, convenience, or gratification in return through this activity. I think such an act is an act of service even if one enjoys providing it. An act of service may be provided for one or a combination of the following reasons: to express fondness or regard, for joy of pleasing another, for sake of compensation or reward, for recognition, towards ingratiation, or to express or to execute (upon command) submission. If anyone has a different definition for an act of service, and a different explanation for why people like to provide acts of service, I invite you to share the same. If we accept this definition, in most cases cunnilingus is an act of service; one person expends energy to provide pleasure to another without receiving the same type of pleasure in return from this activity. When a vanilla man provides oral sex to his vanilla lover because he wants to make her feel good, it is an act of service but one that expresses affection rather than submission. When a submissive man provides oral sex to a dominant woman with whom there is not a relationship of lovers but one of power distant statuses, it is, amongst other things, an act of service that expresses submission. There are shades of grey in between the two. The scenario when it is not an act of service is when the recipient does not enjoy the activity period and accepts it only for sake of the giver. If the recipient generally enjoys receiving cunnilingus but does not enjoy it from a given provider who sees it as an act of service, it is still an act of service but a failed act of service. If a recipient enters into the activity knowing she will not enjoy it from the given recipient and accepts it for his sake, she is providing an act of service. If a provider provides oral sex knowing that the recipient does not enjoy receiving it and is agreeing unenthusiastically for his sake, what he is doing is then not an act of service. If service comes from different motivations and one of these motivations can be to express submission then it is fair to say that some subs enjoy cunnilingus for its submissive value. Sure, there might be other motivations in addition to expressing submission but that does not remove this motivation. It is for each person to decide what are their motivations and whether for this person it is an act of service that expresses submission. Cheers, Sea
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