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Bdsm (Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadomasochism), Margot Weiss
Bdsm (Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadomasochism), Margot Weiss
Margot Weiss
BDSM is the consensual exchange of power for pleasure. BDSM is an acronym made up of three term-sets: bondage and discipline (B&D), domination and submission (D/s), and sadomasochism (SM, S/M, or S&M). Although practices similar to those in contemporary BDSM communities have existed in most places and times, BDSM communities are a phenomenon of industrialized capitalist societies.