Domestic discipline (abbreviated DD) is discipline (the enforcement of order, usually by punishment for infringement of rules applied in a domestic context, normally between members of a household.

See also Domestic discipline (lifestyle) for the practice of interspousal discipline with an emphasis on spanking as a punishment. Domestic discipline (DD) is the practice of interspousal discipline with an emphasis on spanking as a punishment. ...

General meaning

In education, it is discipline applied by the educator (usually parental, mainly the head of household, other care-givers -e.g. babysitter, guardian, day care staff-, or older sibling) as part of the education of the minor, mainly at home, but also anywhere both are present, and sometimes interacting with other eductors, e.g. punishment at home for bad school results or misbehaviour at school.

By extension, it is sometimes said of disciplining of the same minors by similar means ('in loco parentis') in other rather informal private contexts other than school, normally subject to parental consent, such as summer camp.

The distinction may be a gray area, e.g. when boarding school kids are disciplined by staff and/or older colleagues (such as prefects) as they might be at home. A prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficio, to make in front, i. ...

In adult relationships

In the generally voluntary context of adult relationships, it is specifically said of the practice of interspousal discipline, in BDSM and some other erotic contexts with an emphasis on spanking as a punishment. Practicioners argue that domestic discipline is distinct from both domestic abuse, and activities such as erotic spanking and BDSM-style domination and submission. Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction. ... Spanking (or smacking) is the most used traditional form of physical punishment, consisting in a beating applied on the buttocks. ... sexual abuse is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a wrongdoer as a response to something unwanted that the wrongdoer has done. ... Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. ... Erotic spanking often goes hand in hand with other fetishes, such as for erotic clothes or sexual humiliation. ... A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ... Domination and submission (also known as Dominance and submission, D&s, Ds or D/s) is a set of psychosexual behaviors, customs and rituals relating to the dominance of one individual over another. ...

Sources

• Wipipedia

See also

• Power exchange
• Head of Household
• Taken In Hand
• Domination and submission
• Discipline (BDSM)
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