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BDSM is a psychosexual subculture based on an erotic exchange of power and other forms of sexual relations affecting role plays in domination and submission. Physiologically, BDSM is based on raising the level of a person’s sexual arousal and getting them psychophysiological pleasure as a result of conscious violation of certain socially-determined conditions or taboos, as well as (although not always) certain physical influences. In this case, BDSM can be both a self-sufficient practice, not related to direct sexual contact, and be a part of sexual activities.

The differences between BDSM and socially aggressive and / or criminal actions are determined, first of all, by strict adherence to the SSC framework by participants in the BDSM-relationship (an abbreviation for the English words safe, sane, consensual) – principles of security, intelligence and voluntariness. Since most BDSM-activity presupposes moral and physical influences, special mechanisms are used to differentiate natural human psychomotor reactions to discomfort and pain from the conscious desire to stop BDSM actions.

In particular, at any time a participant in a session can pronounce a prearranged stop signal (stop word, gesture or motion), which means demanding an unconditional instantaneous termination of all impacts. Some pairs use a more complex signaling system, which also allows the subordinate partner to report the admissibility of a particular type of exposure or force of impact.

In the composite abbreviation-acronym BDSM, the names of the main components of this phenomenon are included: BD (Bondage & Discipline – bondage and discipline, education) – bondage (binding, limitation of mobility), disciplinary and role games, game submission, humiliation, punishment; DS (Domination & Submission – domination and submission) – domination and submission; relations in which, as a result of a preliminary agreement, there is a disparity of partners; SM (Sadism & Masochism – sadism and masochism) – sadomasochism; practices associated with obtaining pleasure from causing or experiencing physical pain. The emergence of the abbreviation BDSM instead of SM was caused, inter alia, by the fact that initially Bondage / Discipline (BD) and Domination / Subordination (DS) were considered a subdivision of sadomasochism (SM), which did not suit the representatives of these directions. Sadists are pleased to cause pain, masochists – to test it.

But domination and subordination is manifested more at the psychological level, the erotic exchange of power, and in smaller – at the level of physical action. Not all masochists obey, and not all subordinates like to experience pain. Not all sadists are dominant, and vice versa, not all dominants are sadistic. After some discussions with all interested parties, the national abbreviation BDDSSM was introduced, almost immediately shortened to BDSM. The appearance of the abbreviation is attributed to the early 1990s.