Outline of BDSM

Last updated February 11, 2025

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.

Etymology

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)
Sadomasochism (S & M or S/M)

Bondage

Different types of rope bondage

By material

By body part

Self-bondage
Head bondage
Neck
- Collar (BDSM)
- Stocks
Arms
- Wrists – Bondage cuffs
- Arms – Armbinder
- Stocks
Breast bondage
Crotch rope

Discipline

Dominance and Submission

Sadomasochism

Weights 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
- Nipple clamp
- Nipple piercing
Cock and ball torture
Pussy torture^[2]^[3]
Tickle torture

Types of play

Animal roleplay at Folsom Street Fair: women dressed as kitten (left) and as pony (right).

BDSM equipment

Gag (BDSM)
Bondage harness

Sexual fetishism and Paraphilia

Paraphilia
Sexual sadism disorder
Sexual fetishism

BDSM terminology

Sadomasochism in public: Woman (left) and man (right) chained to Saint Andrew's Cross get flogged at Folsom Street Fair.

Bondage
Discipline (BDSM)
Glossary of BDSM

Roles
Sexual slavery (BDSM)
Sexual fetishism
Hard limit (BDSM)
Limits (BDSM)
Negotiation (BDSM)
Contract (BDSM)
Play (BDSM)
Scene (BDSM)
Session (BDSM)

Lists

References

↑ "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.

External links

BDSM Glossary

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[1] "Speculum Play". Kinkly. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

[2] "Female Genitorture". BDSM Digest. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

[3] Jamie (6 January 2023). "Pussy Torture: 14 BDSM Pussy Play Ideas". Kink Lovers. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

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