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BDSM
BDSM is a term that is
much common among people who engage into certain sexual practices, but it is also a complete unknown and mysterious
field for most people. In fact, the term stands for
a series of sexual practices that are commonly
considered unpleasant or even undesirable. BDSM stands for Bondage & Discipline, Domination &
Submission, Sadism and Masochism. Those practices
include servitude and submission from at least one of
the parties involved, and not rarely, infliction of
pain and physical restraint. For the majority of people, BDSM may seem inappropriate or completely unattractive,
but in fact when what would be considered normally a
suffering it's practiced with the mutual consent between
the partners and more surprisingly for some people,
for their own enjoyment.
Much of the BDSM play involves combinations of power exchange. The use
of power to dominate a person or the submission to the
power and the orders of the other person are the real
psychological elements of BDSM play, and what
attracts so much people interest in such combination.
While some people only enjoy being the dominant part
(or what in BDSM slang is called being a "top"),
there are those who enjoy only being inflicted pain
(or "bottoms"). There are also a third group
of BDSM enthusiasts for each the best part of sexual play is the role-switching between the two
behaviors.
One of the most
important aspects of BDSM play is safety, since
there's a very thin line between pain and suffering
that may be desirable for a person and something that
really hurts and would feel unpleasant. As this concept
varies according with the person, sometimes it's difficult
to the dominant part in BDSM to realize he's
actually causing pain. BDSM enthusiasts have
created several codes and safety words by which the
submissive part may warn the partner that playing is
going too fast or too far. A common belief is that most
of the couples who practice BDSM are male-dominating,
while actually it is estimated that the number of female-dominant
couples is very similar.
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