Slave and Master (S&M) is a form of sexual roleplaying, where one partner plays the "Master" and the other the "Slave". Bondage play may be involved, where various objects can be used to. Sexual roleplaying is the sexual behavior of playing some kind of character during a sexual encounter, in order to evoke a sexual fantasy in oneself and/or ones partner. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The slave typically surrenders control to the Master for the duration of the roleplay scene, using safewords to signal the cessation of the scene In some cases, the idea may be for the slave to beg for what they want from the Master (for example, certain types of pleasure or pain, or body parts on or in them). In other cases, the slave may seek to please the Master In BDSM, a scene is a complete encounter. ... A safeword is a codeword or series of codewords that are sometimes used in BDSM to mean that a bottom or submissive is reaching a limit or for the Top/Dom to stop the sceneplay. ...
To verify that this wasn't a hoax or an internal joke which mistakenly escaped to the wider world of the Internet, we called the Purchasing and Contract Services division for the County of Los Angeles, and they informed us that yes, they did issue this message, and yes, it was meant seriously.
a fl employee of the county's Probation Department filed a discrimination complaint with the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance after spotting "master" and "slave" labels on a videotape machine, whereupon the Internal Services Department was obligated to issue notification requesting that vendors refrain from using the master/slave terminology.
Sandoval said that he had already rejected a suggestion that the county stop buying all equipment carrying the "master" and "slave" labels and had no intention of enforcing a ban on such terms with suppliers.