Professional Dominatrixes in Action: Paid BDSM Services and Financial Domination

Much like other sexual services, sadomasochism has succumbed to the process of commodification. In case of BDSM, the paid services mainly concern professional domination. It is currently developing not only as a service provided in face-to-face encounters but has also entered the online sphere, to which it has quickly adapted. The digital age has played a major role not only in the provision of these services themselves but also in the dissemination of information about this sphere to the general population. The phenomenon of online financial domination and financial slavery even developed into a completely digitized sphere of dominant-submissive behaviour and the fulfilment of erotic and fetishist needs for pay. Professional BDSM services, much like prostitution in most Central European countries, occupy an economic and legal “grey zone” and do not officially exist as a profession.