BDSM is a variety of erotic practices involving dominance and submission, roleplaying, restraint, and other interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves as practicing BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture is usually dependent on self-identification and shared experience. Interest in BDSM can range from one-time experimentation to a lifestyle.
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to BDSM:
Etymology
editThe 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)
- Sadomasochism (S & M or S/M)
Bondage
edit- By material
- By body part
- Self-bondage
- Head bondage
- Neck
- Arms
- Wrists – Bondage cuffs
- Arms – Armbinder
- Stocks
- Breast bondage
- Crotch rope
Discipline
editDominance and Submission
editSadomasochism
editWeights hung from nipples using nipple clamps, along with waxplay, at Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Germany (left) and Pussy torture by pulling a labia piercing ring (right).
- Enema play
- Erotic spanking
- Speculum play[1]
- Breast torture
- Cock and ball torture
- Pussy torture[2][3]
- Tickle torture
Types of play
editAnimal roleplay at Folsom Street Fair: women dressed as kitten (left) and as pony (right).
BDSM equipment
editSexual fetishism and Paraphilia
editBDSM terminology
editSadomasochism in public: Woman (left) and man (right) chained to Saint Andrew's Cross get flogged at Folsom Street Fair.
Significant BDSM people
edit- Peter Acworth
- Jeff Gord
- Laura Antoniou
- Maria Beatty
- Barbara Behr
- Theresa Berkley
- Gloria Brame
- Böse Buben
- Richard Francis Burton
- Patrick Califia
- Vanessa Duriès
- Dossie Easton
- Bob Flanagan
- Maîtresse Françoise
- Matthias T. J. Grimme
- Janet Hardy
- Alfred Kinsey
- Irving Klaw
- Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
- John Norman
- Bettie Page
- Pauline Réage
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet
- Gayle Rubin
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Marquis de Sade
- Dita von Teese
- Jay Wiseman
Media
edit- A Defence of Masochism
- Belle de jour (novel)
- Belle de jour (film)
- Billions (TV series)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- Bonding (TV series)
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
- De Usu Flagrorum
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- The Ethical Slut
- Fetishes (film)
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Image (film)
- The Image (novel)
- Imaginative Sex
- Mano Destra
- Maîtresse
- Moonlight Whispers
- The Piano Teacher (Jelinek novel)
- Preaching to the Perverted (film)
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Romance (1999 film)
- Secretary (2002 film)
- Seduction: The Cruel Woman
- Shrimp (film)
- Skin Two
- Spanking Love
- Story of O
- Submission (TV series)
- Tokyo Decadence
- Venus in Furs
- A Woman in Flames
Lists
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Speculum Play". Kinkly. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "Female Genitorture". BDSM Digest. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Jamie (6 January 2023). "Pussy Torture: 14 BDSM Pussy Play Ideas". Kink Lovers. Retrieved 20 January 2024.