BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. The terms submissive and dominant are often used to distinguish these roles: the dominant partner takes psychological control over the submissive. The precise definition of roles and self-identification is a common subject of debate among BDSM participants.

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Summary BDSM BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. The terms submissive and dominant are often used to distinguish these roles: the dominant partner takes psychological control over the submissive. The terms top and bottom are also used; the top is the instigator of an action while the bottom is the receiver of the action. The precise definition of roles and self-identification is a common subject of debate among BDSM participants. The fundamental principles for the exercise of BDSM require that it be performed with the informed consent of all parties. Some practitioners and organizations have adopted the motto safe, sane and consensual, commonly abbreviated SSC, which means that everything is based on safe activities, that all participants of sufficiently sound consent. It is a distinction between BDSM and domestic violence and such crimes as sexual assault and violence. Some BDSM practitioners prefer a code of behavior that differs from SSC. Described as ‘risk-aware kink’, this code shows a preference for a style of behavior in which the individual responsibility of the involved parties is emphasized more strongly, with each participant being responsible for his or her own well-being. Advocates of RACK argue that SSC can hamper discussion of risk because it denies the right to a discrete line between ‘safe’ and ‘not safe’ activities that is truly safe and even low-risk. The term BDSM is first recorded in a Usenet post from 1991, and is interpreted as a combination of the abbreviations BD, Ds, and SM.

BDSM is now used as a catch-all phrase covering a wide range of activities, forms of interpersonal relationships, and distinct subcultures. Some have a policy of pantiesnipple sticker for women and some allow full nudity with explicit sexual acts. Explicit sexual activity, such as sexual penetration, may occur within a session, but is not essential. Such explicit sexual interaction is, for legal reasons, seen only rarely in public play spaces, and it is sometimes specifically banned by the rules of a party or playspace. The interaction between tops and bottoms — where physical or mental control of the bottom are surrendered to the top — is sometimes known as \”power exchange\”, whether in the context of an encounter or a relationship. Participants usually derive pleasure from this, even though many of the practices — such as inflicting pain or humiliation or being restrained — would be unpleasant under other circumstances. The two sets of terms are subtly different: for example, someone may choose to act as bottom to another person, for example to be whipped, purely recreationally, without any implication of being psychologically dominated, and submissives may be ordered to massage their dominant partners. Although the bottom carries out the action and the top receives it, they have not necessarily switched roles. Individuals who change between topdominant and bottomomsubmissive roles—whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship—are called switches.