SADO MASOCHISM Sexual practice using pain, domination or humiliation in the search for pleasure.
SADO MASOCHISM Sexual practice using pain, domination or humiliation in the search for pleasure.
BDSM relationships are between consenting adults. They depend on a mutual agreement called the contract. The contract in the dominant/dominated masochistic universe formalizes the relationship as agreed upon by the parties. Unlike sadism, which is not consented to and therefore cannot depend on the contract.
Contrary to a cliché that in SM, the dominant person is the one who does not know how to stop, Gala points out: