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Service-oriented submission
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<p>In <a href="/facts/BDSM/htzW8TxT">BDSM</a>, service-oriented submission (or sometimes servitude) is the performance of personal tasks for a <a href="/facts/Dominance_and_submission/469xN71G">dominant</a> partner, as part of a <a href="/facts/Dominance_and_submission/469xN71G">submissive</a> role in a <a href="/facts/BDSM/htzW8TxT">BDSM relationship</a>. The submissive is sometimes said to be <i>in service to</i> the dominant. Service-oriented submission is part of a spectrum of submissive behaviors, and not all submissives are service-oriented. </p><p>In domestic service roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing services for their dominant, such as serving as a butler, <a href="/facts/Waiting_staff/eWHmY7MA">waitress</a>, chauffeur, maid or housekeeper. Many derive satisfaction from being focused on the needs of another, rather than themselves. </p><p>Service-oriented submission can be performed in either servile, or dignified ways. Bootblacking is a service-oriented task performed within the <a href="/facts/Leather_subculture/BMEPl7qb">leather subculture</a>. </p><p>Bootblacking may sometimes involve <a href="/facts/Boot_worship/BEHP4SBp">boot-licking</a> as part of the activity. </p><p>The satisfaction of service submission is often combined with the pleasures of <a href="/facts/Sexual_fetishism/f2UrwNMN">fetishes</a>, the pleasures of <a href="/facts/Erotic_humiliation/bUD4J2wo">humiliation</a>, or both. A submissive may rub his or her dominant's feet because the sub enjoys providing the service, has a <a href="/facts/Foot_fetishism/rcHrxozn">foot fetish</a>, enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination. </p>