“Naked Woman Lying on her Stomach”
by Edgar Degas

There seem to be as many definitions of BDSM as there are people into the scene.

One of the most common definitions is as follows:

BDSM: Bondage Domination Sado Masochism, Term for activities of BDSM: Name of a lifestyle shared by many people. The word BDSM is a combination of 3 acronyms, BD for Bondage Discipline, DS for Domination and Submission and SM for Sado Masochistic. People who share this lifestyle believe in having a relationship where one of the people by mutually agreed upon consent is in a position of Power/Domination the other person in this relationship. This relationship could be for a brief moment (a scene) or for a longer period of time (permanent relationship). Erotic-BDsM Dictionary

Although BDsM is broken into the above categories the divisions can be so blurred as to be non-existant. In our relationship, we seem to be tending towards an amalgamation of all three aspects.


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