I got slightly confused when I 1st looked at this because top didn't show up, but I've played with "fluffy tops" which is something else they're called. They love to give you want you want, whether it's a spanking or something like that. They can be lots of fun, but I'm more into the ones that tell me what to do and do things because it makes them happy and not necessariy me-ok kinda me too! :-)
So that's my little ole 2 cents worth.

I was collared to someone briefly who for all intents and purposes was my service top. In that relationship the service was in that he served as kind of my mentor and taught me how things were done and insisted they be done that way, so while there was that DS/MS aspect, there was also a mentor/mentee relationship there.

I have been called a fluffy service top more than once. I do like to take care of my bottoms.

*shrug* I'm a switch, so that might have something to do with it, but I never assume Top = Dominant. I've seen masochistic dominants and submissive sadists. I often top people as a service to them (which doesn't make me one ounce less cruel to their flesh) and the term "fluffy top" grates on me. I've known a top or two that were fluffy but not at all service oriented. I've seen service domination that was cruel enough to make me wince.
Meh.
Play however you want so long as nobody ends up in therapy or the ER as a result of it.

Service top is one of the titles that fit what I do.


I have put on events, shows and receptions for the community.

I have volunteered at many many play parties, served as a volunteer coordinator and
participated in community panels and events.

I have volunteered along side with my personal submissive at events that I have either put on or helped out with.

Service is something at all of the community can do. One does not have to be a submissive to offer service.

I first learned the term when I arrived in CA 1.5 years ago. I do not fall into the fluffy service category in the slightest. I warm up as little as I can get away with, and leave heavy marks. I do like to enable and shape those who serve me, but I see this more as maintenance and creation than as service because I'm doing what I want to have happen to them and it is certainly not out of a desire to please them. I do desire that the one serving me be happy, but I see that as being purely practical. I also have no remorse when it comes to taking every last ounce of what is available to me from the submissive person. I hunger for submission, devour it even. I love having someone scrub the floors, stack my paperwork, or even suck the sand off of my toes after a walk on the beach. Zero misgivings about what is a happy experience for me, provided it is a happy experience for the one serving me as well.