The BDSM Glossary With Illustrations - Your Guide to all BDSM

As BDSM gains popularity with the erotica of Fifty
Shades of Grey, many readers are asking themselves, "Just what is BDSM?" BDSM
is an acronym. The B stands for bondage; the D can stand for discipline,
domination, dominant or dominance; the S can stand for sadism, submission,
slave, or submissive; and the M stands for masochism or master. Like the
relationship in Fifty Shades of Grey, the most popular BDSM relationship is one
between a dominant and a submissive whereas the pleasure of the submissive is
derived from serving the desires of the dominant and submitting to the dominant
while the pleasure of the dominant pleasure is found in the gift of submission.
Submission craves dominance and dominance craves submission. This type of BDSM
is also commonly referred to a power exchange - the submissive or slave with
communicated limits relinquishes control to the dominant. BDSM power exchange
liaisons will sometimes also include bondage. Bondage is the restriction of
movement by ropes, toys, straps. Discipline is a BDSM term which is used to
describe consensual actions the dominant or Master will employ when the
submissive does not fully submit. BDSM Discipline can involve spanking and the
submissive receive their spanking by the hand of their Master's hand or a
sexual toy. A male dominant is frequently referred to as an alpha male and if
there is another male involved, the alpha male will always the dominant. The
BDSM submissive is often called slave or slut and neither slut nor slave are
derogatory terms in BDSM. BDSM also includes relationships masochists and
sadists, but they are rarer forms of BDSM. With Fifty Shades of Grey BDSM erotica
in the main stream I, a dedicated BDSM author, urge you to read about all the
different nuances of BDSM that interest you and hope you enjoy each of them.

 

However there are still questions out there about BDSM as well as about some of the terms and items used. This guide strives to answer all of them

Do you find yourself curious when an author mentions the use of a flog?
Do you wonder what the St. Andrew's Cross is?
Do you try to picture the different type of nipple clamps?
Does the Hanky Code make any sense to you?

Well, ask no more questions and use this well put together, complete, illustrated BDSM glossary for all of your answers. This is the guide to all that is BDSM.