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.
In BDSM, the terms sub and dom are frequently used to mean submissive and dominant.
I read that in the BDSM community, "intense sensation" is a euphemism for pain.
There is a big difference between consensual BDSM practices and abuse.
