Sunday, October 9, 2011

Femdom as an Economic Theory - Supply and Demand

The Basic Theory of Supply and Demand

Economic Theory is pretty much all based upon the theory of supply and demand.
The premise:
At a given price, consumers will demand X amount of a product.
To increase demand, lower the price.
To increase the price, lower the amount supplied (below what is demanded at its current price).



Scarce Resources and the BDSM Pyramid

It is generally accepted in the BDSM community that there is a pyramid-like hierarchy of orientation representations when it comes to BDSM preference.  The actual numbers are sometimes debatable because it's common belief that male subs are over-represented on the internet but I also believe they are under-represented at BDSM functions.  However, the order of the levels in the pyramid are never really questioned.

 
In my estimation (taken from both the internet and BDSM functions), the percentages are probably something like:
Female Dominant: ~2%
Male Dominant: ~13%
female submissive: ~32%
male submissive: ~53%

This means there is an approximately 2.5:1 femsub to Maledom ratio, but more than a 26:1 malesub to Femdom ratio. 

The inequality leads to a special type of supply and demand interaction known as scarce resources.  No matter how limited the supply, demand tends to remain the same.   The end result is inflated prices and excess demand.


Basically, Femdom Nation is OPEC and male subs are the automobile driving public.  No matter how "expensive" domination is, male subs will pay it, and regardless of the price, most male subs will be left out in the cold without it.  Unless there's a drastic societal change, this situation won't change any time soon as there's no electric car equivalent to femdom. 

Conclusion

Since the number of male subs so drastically out populate the number of Femdoms, Female Dominants have every advantage in both courting situations and D/s relationships. 

5 comments:

  1. Dynamite!
    Of course, my book aims to set this right...

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  2. I'm not sure if I will comment on each post, but for the record, the posts that I've read so far are really interesting. It's a different way of calculating and adding and subtracting in an um... scientific way this life style. Well done. I actually will be reading a lot more on your blog. It is a very unique approach to explaining all of the variations of this kind of life style mixed in with other compartments. I like it. LOL :)

    Thank you for taking the time to share this particular view point.

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  3. Thank you, Cleo.

    I'm not quite sure how I got onto this idea for a topic but I went with it. I'm very glad you have found them interesting.

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  4. Been thinking about it - don't doesn't the high "price" of wooing a female dominant create a sense of added value? Masochists, after all, being peversely attracted to things that they do not like?

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