manservants: bowtiedboi:I’m often asked where I draw inspiration from, and I can tell you exac
manservants: bowtiedboi:I’m often asked where I draw inspiration from, and I can tell you exactly where: reality television.I’m not joking.There was a short-lived UK show on in the early 00s called Masters and Servants. It would take two families, most of them not very well off, and play a game. One family would be the ‘servants’ to the ‘Masters’ one week, and then they would swap places. A disaster of a show. They tried to capture what made Wife Swap or those types of reality shows work, and it just didn’t. No one would play ball in the second week. Most Masters-turned-servants gave up and refused to carry on with the game. And the servants-turned-Masters were too interested in getting revenge. I remember the young men would be dressed like this. Red bowtie, red waistcoat, white shirt, black trousers, shiny black shoes. I’ll never forgot watching it as a teen, and seeing one episode. This 19-year-old guy normally used to trackies and sweats was forced to dress up to the nines to serve an older son of a different family. This one guy, a tall blond guy, behind that masculine bravado was a little meek. A bit nervous, even. Putting that bowtie around his neck changed him. You could just tell. He got into it. He liked it. He wondered what it would be like to shine a Master’s shoes and dress a Master each day. Serving him lunch. Waiting on a Master. Begging to please him on his knees. Each time the camera caught him, I saw someone getting off on the idea of submission. His dirty post-pubescent brain was probably going wild. But unlike my own enraptured horny self, his transformation was all caught on camera. There was one scene where he pleaded with his sister to keep calm and carry on doing her chores. And then when she didn’t do them, he did them and his own himself. I wondered how far and how fast he fell into the idea of being owned.Some nights I hope, after the cameras and lights all left, that this guy found a true Master that gave him what he needed. A place in service. Just where he belonged. This show is indeed a disaster, but if you have a taste for this kind of stuff it’s good enough. Here’s the link for the first episode. On mobile it asks for a password, but it doesn’t on desktop. https://vimeo.com/channels/mattreidshowreel/26609848If anyone can find episodes 2, 3, and 4, please share them with me! -- source link