Paypig

About

Paypig is a derogatory slang term used in findom or "financial domination" fetish circles in which a submissive person gets aroused by the idea of being financially subservient to a dominant person. In pop culture, a paypig is typically a man with a domination kink that pays large amounts of money to a female dominatrix, often while being consensually berated or humiliated for doing so. Paypigs are also called finsubs, money pigs or money slaves.

Origin

While submissive and dominant fetish lifestyles predate the internet, personal blogs and websites, as well as internet-based money transfer systems like PayPal, led to the fetish taking on its current form. Findom and paypig culture is notably a form of "distance domination" aided by the development of the modern internet.^[1]

An early example of the word "paypig" being used on a findom website is a post from January 23rd, 2004, by a blogger called "Princess" on a dot com website named Financial Domination^[2] (seen below, left). On January 20th, 2007, an Urban Dictionary^[3] user named DirkD posted a definition for the term "paypig," gathering over 1,900 upvotes in 16 years (seen below, right).

Spread

The slang term continued to spread online over the following years, slowly increasing in prevalence. On December 30th, 2009, an unknown Redditor^[4] posted to /r/IAmA saying, "IAMA recovering member of the erotic financial domination circuit. I would pay women on cam to take from me. It nearly destroyed my life. AMA." The post received an unknown number of upvotes and over 200 comments in 13 years.

On April 17th, 2015, Sam Hyde posted a Facebook^[5] status that notably contained the word "paypig." The line read, "They have a gun that launches a net that traps you and sissifies you live on webcam like a paypig." The post gathered over 400 likes in eight years (seen below).

On June 7th, 2021, Twitter^[6] user @flamencolambada posted a tweet about recruiting a paypig, gathering over 24,000 likes in two years (seen below, left). On February 6th, 2021, Twitter^[7] user @Demi_theynd posted a tweet about an academic discussing paypigs, gathering over 5,600 likes in a year (seen below, right).

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