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ORIGINAL: NocturnalStalker

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ORIGINAL: crazyml

Folks,

One of the great things about this side of the site is that it's resulted in my prejudices being challenged and my mind opened on a number of occasions.

I'm willing to admit that I carry a lot of preconceptions and prejudices (let's face it, who can help that), but I do try to remain open to those prejudices being called on, and I'm committed to growing as a human being.

I've always shuddered at the concept of the "Pay pig". It bothers me more than a lot of other things. At the heart of it is the question "who the fuck would be that stupid, that weak, that pathetic that they'd hand over money to a complete stranger in return for absolutely nothing?

C'mon team, open my mind!

I rationalize it as, if somebody has the funds to throw away carelessly and do not spend it in more productive and helpful ways but instead use it to "spoil" some random person online that they share little of a relationship with outside transaction deserve to be called out and ridiculed endlessly. 

Yes, yes, I'm aware... "your kink isn't my kink" and all that but we'd be telling ourselves a lie if we said that we did not think some of these kinks were not... in layman's terms... fucking dumb.

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I'm thinking of pay pigs as the people who waft money across the interweb in return for nothing...*

Do any of those actually in reality exist?

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It's really a silly question, they're getting something, value is being created and exchanged, it's a social exchange, and social exchanges have value, there wouldn't be all these people in here looking for "the one" if any 'ol hole or vaguely phallic object was sufficient.

Puh-leeze. I think this thread was started as semi-ill conceived satire, but it's turned into self-satirical pit of narcissistic self congratulation.

Oh well, that's what I get for lookin', huh?

Another Ten minutes of my life I'll never get back.

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I would say that wasting time worrying and ridiculing about what other people do with their valuable time and hard earned money is pretty pathetic in itself, time being money - and fucking dumb, since you're giving away for free what other people are getting paid to do, lol

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ORIGINAL: NocturnalStalker

Anytime, junior.

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ORIGINAL: amaidiamond

*I'm thinking of pay pigs as the people who waft money across the interweb in return for nothing...*

Do any of those actually in reality exist?

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ORIGINAL: Winterapple

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Not getting anything in return is what they get in
return. Not very mysterious.

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ORIGINAL: HisPet21

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I'm thinking of pay pigs as the people who waft money across the interweb in return for nothing...*

Do any of those actually in reality exist?

That's my thought. I don't think there are any men who send gifts and cash to random pictures/accounts on the internet, and then walk away from the laptop feeling good. I think that the vast majority of so-called "Pay Piggies" expect something back: A degrading phone call, a condescending email, a picture, a nice chat. Nobody just gives away money to a random stranger without getting some kind of interaction with that person, probably in the form of degradation or praise for being such a "good pay piggy."

I can understand the appeal of paying for another person. I love treating my partner to dinner, or to any other kind of date. But I enjoy making him happy. I couldn't get the same satisfaction from giving cash to a stranger. For me, giving gifts is just like giving a massage or cooking a meal.

But I guess the pay piggies get some humiliation out of it, and perhaps a sense of subordination. While I can certainly sympathize with that view (Didn't xXblushesxX say something like, money is the ultimate power in another thread?), I wouldn't feel more subordinant to my partner if he ran my bank account. Don't know why. I just don't associate being rich or having my money as making you dominant and/or badass.

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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx
You'd have to ask them the reason why.

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It doesn't seem mysterious that a man might want to reward a woman for posting something on the net that he liked.

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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1

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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx
You'd have to ask them the reason why.

I enjoy putting smiles on the faces of random strangers.  It seems as though it would be an added bonus if I could add a sexual thrill on top of natural empathy.

Not my kink though.  I've never done the hit and run, or been a finsub in other ways.  But I've bought a CD because of a YouTube video, and I've subscribed to a porn service because of the front page.  It doesn't seem mysterious that a man might want to reward a woman for posting something on the net that he liked.

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ORIGINAL: crazyml

I've always shuddered at the concept of the "Pay pig". It bothers me more than a lot of other things. At the heart of it is the question "who the fuck would be that stupid, that weak, that pathetic that they'd hand over money to a complete stranger in return for absolutely nothing?

C'mon team, open my mind!