A report on Bondage (BDSM), Dominance and submission, Sexual roleplay and BDSM

A suspended model in a hogtie bondage. Her nipples are clamped and she is gagged with a ball gag harness
This 1921 illustration of a clothed male and naked female shows an example of female submission. The art is by Georges Topfer from his work Le rêve d’un flagellant ("The Dream of a Flagellant").
A bondage scenario using period costumes
The BDSM initialism
Tied woman lying down hogtied
A D/s couple posing for a picture. Many submissives wear a collar to denote their status and commitment.
Female police officer dominating a bandit man in a sexual roleplay.
Erotic humiliation: A submissive woman publicly caged at the Folsom Street Fair in U.S., with cane markings on her body.
Bound nude man
A dominant male publicly holds two submissive females using leashes tied to their neck, Folsom Street Fair, 2010
Uniform fetish: A Japanese woman dressed as a school student
A male bondage rigger demonstrates to the audience how to do rope bondage at the 2015 BoundCon event in Germany. The bondage technique used here is box tie, a basic form of arm and breast bondage.
Frogtied woman gagged with duct tape
A man doing petplay at Folsom Street Fair and wearing dog leash in his neck.
Sexual roleplayer in a kajira pose at Folsom Street Fair. The woman is posing in an approximation to nadu, the typical position of a "pleasure slave".
Strappado with rope and a spreader bar. This practice has a distinct effect of immobilization and pain.
Man handcuffed to a bedrail, with a blindfold on
A nude submissive female cleans the shoe of her male master by licking it (with her consent). Scene is of a public road in USA, 2012.
Portrait of Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1761)
A ball-gagged model whose face is bound using bondage harness and bondage collar
A woman submissive wearing a typical "slave collar" at Cologne Pride. Her male master is pulling her using the ring of O attached to the collar. The woman is also wearing a mouth gag and her hands are in bondage.
BDSM is commonly misconceived to be "all about pain". This 1921 art of a clothed male, naked female is an illustration of male dominance and female submission.
Rope bondage: A gagged model bound in an uncomfortable position using breast bondage and crotch ropes
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Fanny Pistor (Baroness Bogdanoff)
A woman being put in suspension bondage at BoundCon, Germany, 2013. Since the submissive is vulnerable to a potential fall, it is important that great care is taken.
A woman wearing a steel collar and steel handcuffs.
A submissive female kneels before her mistress.
Flogging of a bound man by a dominatrix at the Exxxotica adult event, United States, 2009
Petplay: Woman bound outdoor using a dog's chain, at the Folsom Street Fair.
BDSM activists at Taiwan Pride 2005, Taipei
Bondage demonstration at the 2003 Folsom Street Fair
A sulky cart drawn by a pony-girl, an example of petplay at the Folsom Parade, 2012. She is wearing a bit gag and a neck collar, to which are attached a ring of O and a leash. Bells are hung from her pierced nipples. All these symbols indicate she is roleplaying a 'pet slave'.
Multiple knots being tied by a male bondage rigger, so as to ensure a strong rope bondage.
A bondage pornography shoot in the U.S., 2011
A woman wearing an armbinder
A whipping scene where both dominant and submissives are female, Paris, 1930
A woman chained to a Saint Andrew's cross
A fresco in the Etruscan Tomb of the Whipping, 5th century BC
Two women mummified with duct tape, restraining their entire bodies, at Exxxotica 2013
Copper engraving, about 1780
A Shibari expert weaves a rope on a woman's upper body at Venus Berlin, 2019.
Flagellation scene, illustration to Fanny Hill by Édouard-Henri Avril, 1907
Two women in frogtie bondage
Foot worship of one of the feet of a dominatrix by a submissive man. Her other foot rests over the man's head, using it as a footstool (human furniture). This sketch is from a 1950 work named Bizarre Honeymoon.
A male bondage rigger demonstrates to the audience how to do rope bondage at the 2015 BoundCon event in Germany. The bondage technique used here is box tie, a basic form of arm and breast bondage.
Start of the leather contingent at the 2004 San Francisco gay pride parade
A leather dog mask worn over a latex coat.
Consensual giving or receiving of pain is legal in Austria. Photo shows wax play at the Eros Pyramide sex show, Austria, 2009.
Erotic pose of three women in bondage gear
Sexual activity may occur in BDSM, but it is not essential part of BDSM. Photo shows erotic humiliation of sexual nature being performed at Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival, Germany, 2014. The submissive woman is stripped naked, hung upside down, whipped and a master doing sexual roleplay of a devil forces himself on her to cause vagina torture.
Bondage with fluorescent ropes
Spanking with a paddle in a BDSM dungeon in New York City
The BDSM rights flag with triskelion-type emblem
The leather pride flag, a symbol of the BDSM and fetish subculture
Fanny Pistor (with whip) and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs was inspired by the author's own life where he was dominated by a woman.
Flogging of the bare buttocks as seen in this New York street fair is a common practice in BDSM.
Leathermen participating in the Cologne Pride Parade, 2014
In this demonstration of cock and ball torture, a woman inserts her finger inside the urethra of a man's penis.

Bondage in the BDSM subculture, is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation.

- Bondage (BDSM)

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.

- BDSM

It is a subset of BDSM.

- Dominance and submission

The role-play may involve elements of dominance and submission including sexual bondage and erotic humiliation.

- Sexual roleplay

Many of the most common sexual roleplays involve a power differential and form part of the dominance and submission aspect of BDSM.

- Sexual roleplay

This sometimes takes the form of a sex game or sexual fantasy enactment.

- Bondage (BDSM)

A 1995 study indicates that 89% of heterosexual females who are active in BDSM expressed a preference for the submissive-recipient role in sexual bondage, expressing also a preference for a dominant male, and that 71% of heterosexual males preferred a dominant-initiator role.

- Dominance and submission

Metal bondage is bondage involving the use of metal apparatus to restrain a submissive as part of BDSM activities.

- Bondage (BDSM)

Fantasy role play can be an element, with partners taking classic dominant or submissive roles, or classic authority-figure roles such as teacher and student, police officer and suspect, or parent and child.

- Dominance and submission
A suspended model in a hogtie bondage. Her nipples are clamped and she is gagged with a ball gag harness

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