0 abbreviation for bondage, discipline (or domination), sadism (or submission), masochism: sexual activity that involves, for example, tying a partner up, games in which one partner controls another, or giving and receiving pain for pleasure: --
Activities in BDSM are often characterized by the participants' taking on roles that involve inequality of power.
There is a big difference between consensual BDSM practices and abuse.
I read that in the BDSM community, "intense sensation" is a euphemism for pain.
In BDSM, the terms sub and dom are frequently used to mean submissive and dominant.