littlesarbonn
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TammyJo's point is important to think about because I, too, know a number of people who present classes on bdsm activities, and I can name maybe a tenth of the ones that I know that see it as any type of profitable activity, and quite often because it introduces people to the woman putting on the class, who happens to be a professional dominant, so it has the ability to drive future business, even if the class doesn't make any money.
What I normally see are experienced individuals who devote a great deal of time to trying to educate people in the community about aspects of bdsm and D/s activities. The "profit" is so minimal when you compare it to the costs of producing the event they normally put on. These people do this because they are leaders of our community and want to help grow the community, something not a lot of people are capable of doing, as a lot of name recognition people create cliques and become exclusionary rather than open to helping others in an altruistic manner.
Now, back to the whole "money" thing. I will admit that my personal beliefs these days feel that the prices that a lot of dominants charge are astronomical, compared to what I used to remember in the older days. But that's what their market is supporting, so I really don't have any cause to say that prices should come down. If the women working today can continue to charge such prices (and I'm referring to the $250 and WAY up types of prices for an hour), and survive, then all the power to them. However, it does mean that I don't do sessions anymore, and I'm the only one that suffers in that circumstance, because I'm sure there's no huge outcry happening in the professional dominant community about a lack of little sarbonns doing sessions. Personally, and this is just an economic guess on my part, I have a strong feeling prices are going to have to come down because I don't think the market can support the number of up and coming dominants versus the ability, and willingness, of potential submissives to continue paying for such sessions.
I do work in the bdsm community on a peripheral basis (supporting someone else's bdsm business that she has been running for close to two decades now), so I keep a close eye on the bdsm market, and I've been seeing some very dangerous signs that I don't think people who are so locked into the current paradigm are capable of seeing themselves. It's going to become harder and harder to support oneself in the bdsm community in the near future, and I sometimes wish I had the ear of a lot of the women working in this community, but I discovered a long time ago that no matter how many economic predictions I make that come true, no one listens to a "random" submissive male because there are so many around that can be listened to, even if the rest of them are guessing based on their interactions with a small, tiny subset of a much larger and bigger picture. Fortunately, the woman for whom I have been working for the last twelve years does listen to me (even if she doesn't always follow my advice...she's a pretty good businesswoman herself, so she's pretty good at filtering what works for her), which indicates to me why she has been successful this long in an atmosphere where two years can destroy a career in an avalanche that no one ever saw coming.
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