This list of BDSM terms defines terms commonly used in the BDSM community. A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ...

BDSM activities are described as play in BDSM terminology.

The BDSM term is a portmanteau acronym intended to take in all of the following activities: A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two words. ...

• Bondage and Discipline play (B & D)
• Domination & submission play (D & S) (including "master and slave" role-playing scenarios or ongoing relationship structures)
• Sadism and Masochism (S & M)

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Some BDSM terminology:

• Abrasion: Using something rough (such as sandpaper).
• Aftercare: The time after a BDSM scene or play session in which the participants calm down, discuss the previous events and their personal reactions to them, and slowly come back in touch with reality. Failure to engage in proper aftercare can lead to subdrop.
• Age play: Usually referring to Daddy/daughter or Mommy/baby role play. Does not usually include or infer aspects of incest, but rather the nurturing relationship of Parent/child or Teacher/student.
• Anal torture: The BDSM practice of inflicting pain on the anus.
• Animal Play: The sub acts or dresses like an animal (puppy, pony, cow, etc.).
• Auctioned off: Dom/me auctions off the Slave to the highest bidder (usually supervised and for temporary use).
• BDSM: Bondage/Discipline/Sadism/Masochism
• Bottom: submissive or one who gives up control, or simply one who receives physical sensation from a Top in a scene.
• Breath Control: The Dom controls the sub's breathing.
• Butt plug: Much like a dildo, only shaped slightly differently. They come in a variety of sizes; some can vibrate.
• CBT: Cock and ball torture
• Collared: Submissive or slave who is owned (usually in a loving intimate relationship)
• Collaring: Ceremony when a Dom commits to a sub (much like a wedding)
• Contract: A written-out agreement between the Dom/me & sub. It can be either formal or non, and is usually written after much negotiation by the Dom/me and the sub, outlining what structure, guidelines, rules and boundaries to the relationship are agreed upon by the two . It is NOT legally binding but should be taken seriously.
• DM: Dungeon Monitor, a person who volunteers to supervise the interactions between participants at a Play Party to ensure their safety.
• Dom: Man who takes control (from Dominant)
• Dominant (dom/domme) (also dominatrix)
• Domme: Female who takes control (contraction of dominatrix)
• D/s: Domination/submission
• Dungeon: Usually referring to a room or area with BDSM equipment and play space
• Edgeplay: SM play involving blood, permanent marking, knives, or fire, sometimes with a greater risk of danger.
• Fetish: A specific obsession or delight in one object.
• Fire play: Using flammable liquids to create quick, fleeting instances of flame on the skin of the bottom. Risk of injury is increased and the Top should be learned with fire play skills.
• Genitorture: Torture of the genitals
• Golden showers: Urinating on, or being urinated on by, another person.
• Handkerchief codes: visible signs to indicate to others your area of BDSM interest
• Hard limits: What someone absolutely will not do, usually non-negotiable.
• Harem: A group of subs serving one or more Dom/mes.
• Infantilism: Parent/child or parent/baby role playing.
• Knife play: Slow, methodical sensation of the bottom with the edges and points of knives, usually without cutting the skin. Fear of the weapon plays a large part in the stimulus of the bottom.
• Limits: What someone "won't" do or is hesitant to do
• Masochism: Act of receiving pain for sensual/sexual pleasure.
• Masochist: Person who enjoys pain, usually sexually.
• Munch: A group of people that are into BDSM meeting at a vanilla place. Sometimes this is a club. You might see an announcement like, "This weekend's munch is at Denny's"
• Needle play: Temporary piercings done with sterile needles of varying gauges, usually only for the duration of a scene.
• OTK: Over the knee (spanking).
• Painslut: A person who enjoys receiving a heavy degree of pain but may or may not necessarily enjoy submitting.
• Paraphilia
• Play Party: A BDSM event involving many people engaging in Scenes.
• ProDom: Male professional Dominant (charges money)
• ProDomme: Female professional Dominant (charges money)
• Ponygirl or Ponyboy: Sub is dressed in a pony outfit, with mouth bit and anal plug with a tail. They are told to prance or behave like a pony.
• Puppy Play: Sub is made to act like a puppy. Sub barks, whines, eats from a bowl, etc. Such play is almost never sexual, but rather focuses on the altered mind-space of bottom/pup.
• RACK - Risk Aware Consensual Kink
• Rape fantasy: The pleasurable fantasy of inflicting or being a victim to an act of consensual play-rape.
• Sadism: The act of inflicting pain.
• Sadist: Person who enjoys inflicting pain, usually sexually.
• Safe, Sane and Consensual - SSC
• Safeword - When a participant utters a safeword, BDSM activity stops.
• Scat play: Feces play
• Scene: A time period of BDSM activities.
• Session: A time period of BDSM activities with a ProDom/me.
• Slave: Person who gives up a great degree of control in an ongoing D/s relationship, sometimes with few remaining limits. Often those who identify as "slave" have a great desire for being of service to their dominant, sometimes referred to as "service-oriented submission."
• Slave Position: Also called The Pleasure Position. Sub is kneeling, legs spread, head down and hands on thighs, with palms up
• Soft Limits: Something that someone is hesitant to do or nervous to try. They can sometimes be talked into the activity.
• Subdrop: A physical condition, often with cold- or flu-like symptoms, experienced by a submissive after an intense session of BDSM play. This can last for as long as a week, and is best prevented by aftercare immedietly after the session.
• submissive, or "sub" for short. Person that gives up control either all the time or only during a scene
• Subspace: A "natural high" that a sub gets during a scene or when being controlled.
• switch: Someone who likes being both Dominant and submissive, either in one scene or on different occasions.
• Top: Dominant person either all the time or only during a scene.
• Training: Either referring to a short period of time (a scene) or an ongoing effort of the Dom/me teaching the sub how to act. Can either be a playful thing or a serious thing, depending on the couple.
• Vanilla: Someone who isn't in the lifestyle. Alternatively, sexual behaviour which doesn't encompass BDSM activity. The term is sometimes used in a derogatory sense.
• Wax play: The Dom/me drips hot wax on the sub.

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In addition, high protocol refers to groups that adhere to strict roles and role-based rules of conduct, whereas low protocol refers to groups that are more relaxed. Old Guard refers to high protocol groups, particularly gay leather BDSM groups.

See also:

• BDSM
• List of BDSM topics