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The Documentary Podcast

Inside the World of the Financial Dominatrix

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Financial domination, or findom, is an increasingly popular sexual fetish revolving around money and power. In this internet-based world, submissives (subs) are known as cash slaves and pay pigs. The financial dominatrices (dommes) humiliate, manipulate, seduce or even blackmail their willing “fiscal slaves” into sending them money or gifts – most have an Amazon wish list connected to their social media profiles. Who engages in such a fetish? How does a dominatrix build her online persona in order to be successful?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I've told you before not to call my telephone, unless you've made the deposit.

0:08.9

Can I confirm that the deposit has been made, yes or no?

0:13.8

Very good.

0:14.8

I still don't want to speak to you today.

0:17.6

You're entering the world of the financial dominatrix, a new and fast-growing fetish

0:22.8

in which people get a kick out of giving other people money and expect nothing in return.

0:29.0

It'll be a wonderful feeling if you hand over, I don't know, maybe $100, $200, even.

0:39.3

Online, particularly on social media platforms, there is an increasing number of people, usually

0:45.2

young women, demanding that you send them cash or gifts, or pick up the bill for anything

0:50.8

from their morning coffee to an expensive pair of leather boots or the next holiday abroad.

0:56.1

There was one man who wrote me a check for $14,000, and it came out of the mail, it really

1:05.8

turned me on.

1:07.3

It's not without risks, addiction, stalking and blackmail, as some of the possible hazards

1:12.7

mentioned by people involved.

1:14.8

And what do you get in return?

1:16.4

It's definitely not sex, if that's what you were thinking.

1:19.3

Though many describe experiencing a sexual thrill or a feeling of relief.

1:23.6

They're relinquishing control, they're relinquishing power, that self-worth and that value that

1:29.1

they have attached to their material goods, and there's a release.

1:34.8

I'm Sayon Lee, and I've been exploring the fascinating world of financial domination

1:39.6

of fandom.

1:41.3

In this world service documentary for our season on money and power, I want to speak to

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