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The term BDSM is a portmanteau of initialisms intended to encompass all of the following activities: Bondage and discipline (B & D or B/D) Dominance and submission (D & S or D/s) (including "master and slave" role-playing scenarios and ongoing relationship structures) Sadism and masochism (S & M or S/M)
The dominant partner in a heterosexual relationship may be the woman rather than the man, or BDSM may be part of male/male or female/female sexual relationships. Finally, some people switch, taking either a dominant or submissive role on different occasions. Several studies investigating the possibility of a correlation between BDSM pornography ...
Counter-hegemony is an attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power. [1] In other words, it is a confrontation or opposition to existing status quo and its legitimacy in politics, but can also be observed in various other spheres of life, such as history, media, music, etc. Neo-Gramscian theorist Nicola Pratt (2004) has described counter ...
Dominatrix is the feminine form of the Latin dominator, a ruler or lord, and was originally used in a non-sexual sense. Its use in English dates back to at least 1561. Its earliest recorded use in the prevalent modern sense, as a female dominant in sadomasochism, dates to 1961. [ 1 ] It was initially coined to describe a woman who provides ...
Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [1] It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. [2] Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such ...
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking individual is sometimes called an alpha, and a submissive lower-ranking individual is called a ...
The terms top, bottom, and switch are also used in BDSM, with slightly different meanings. In BDSM, a top is the person doing something to someone else, and a bottom is the person receiving that act. [2][3] In both contexts, the terms top and bottom refer to active and passive roles, not to who is physically on top in a particular sexual act. [1]
Sadomasochism is a subset of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism), a variety of erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism. The abbreviation S&M is commonly used for Sadomasochism (or Sadism & Masochism), although the initialisms S-M, SM, or S/M are also used ...