BDSM - bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism
BDSM is the umbrella term for sexual practices in which the participants feel pleasure or satisfaction through dominance and submission, bondage and educational games or by preparing or receiving pain. The abbreviation is derived from the English terms Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission and Sadism & Masochism. BDSM therefore includes all sexual behaviours that have anything to do with these terms. The term BDSM can only be understood as an attempt at categorization in the form of a model. There is no exact scientific definition of where BDSM begins and where it ends. Therefore, the individual preferences of individuals can affect all three areas as well as only one aspect. However, all variants have in common that the participants voluntarily give up their equal rights in order to either exercise power and/or cause pain as an active person (top) or to submit to and/or endure pain as a passive person (bottom). In the ideal case, both parties achieve a pleasure gain, which can reach up to sexual satisfaction, but does not have to.
The practices are as varied as the people who practice them. The living out of sexual identity and preferences takes place with the help of role plays, in which the participants make arrangements beforehand about the respective role and especially about boundaries and taboos. No one is forced to do anything they do not want. However, so-called non-agreement elements can also be part of the role play by imposing punishments and punishing disciplinary violations. Statements such as begging or pleading can therefore also be part of a role play and do not lead to abortion. A safety word has been agreed upon beforehand for this, with which the session can be ended immediately and unmistakably. The safety of the participants above all else is an essential part of this sexual practice. Their principles were defined in the scene with the terms safe, sane & consensual (SSC).
The spread of BDSM practices extends through all strata of the population and is hardly geographically limited. Specialist authors estimate the proportion of people who regularly practice sexual practices of this kind at up to 25 percent. The proportion of people who only consider this in their imagination is even higher. Dr. Andreas Wismeijer, psychologist at Tilburg University, came to the conclusion in a representative study that BDSMers are "mentally more stable, healthier and happier in their relationship". Psychology today assumes that possible problems do not result primarily from the inclination itself, but primarily from the reaction of the environment to the inclination. A connection with psychological traumas and problems with sexuality is predominantly denied by specialist literature.
BDSM ist der Überbegriff für Sexualpraktiken, bei denen die Beteiligten Lust oder Befriedigung durch Dominanz und Unterwerfung, Fesselungs- und Erziehungsspiele oder durch Bereiten oder Empfangen von Schmerzen empfinden. Die Abkürzung ergibt sich aus den englischen Begriffen Bondage & Discipline (Fesseln & Disziplin), Dominance & Submission (Dominanz und Unterwerfung) sowie Sadism & Masochism (Sadismus und Masochismus). BDSM beinhaltet somit alle sexuellen Verhaltensweisen, die in irgendeiner Weise mit den besagten Begriffen zu tun haben. Dabei ist der Begriff BDSM nur als Versuch der Kategorisierung in Form eines Modells zu verstehen. Es gibt keine genaue wissenschaftliche Definition dafür, wo BDSM anfängt und wo es aufhört. Deshalb können die individuellen Vorlieben der Personen sowohl alle drei Bereiche als auch nur einen Teilaspekt betreffen. Alle Varianten haben allerdings gemeinsam, dass von den Beteiligten freiwillig ihre Gleichberechtigung aufgegeben wird, um entweder als aktive Person (Top) Macht auszuüben und / oder Schmerzen zu bereiten oder als passive Person (Bottom) sich zu unterwerfen und / oder Schmerzen zu ertragen. Im Idealfall erzielen beide Beteiligten daraus einen Lustgewinn, der bis zur sexuellen Befriedigung reichen kann, aber nicht muss.
