Bondage Gear, or BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism), is a common way for couples to safely experiment with how power and control affect sexual excitement. For beginners or those interested only in light bondage, bondage equipment can be as simple as a blindfold and pair of handcuffs. For more experienced or experimental couples, bondage gear can encompass whips, swings, frames and more elaborate devices. There's offers of a large selection of strap ons and adult games.
The expression BDSM first appeared in April 1991, about the Internet newsgroup called alt.sex, as the juxtaposition of two conflicting abbreviations, BD (bondage and domination) and SM (Sadomasochism), which actually had created precisely to distinguish the sadomasochism (which enjoyed a known bad image) to the "other" hobbies. The idea of combining these two concepts resulted in an immediate development of these trends. Given that BDSM is a word that encompasses very different terms is not easy to give it a story beyond the beginning of its use as an acronym, regardless of which corresponds to each of its components.
The international community related to BDSM, correspond special emphasis on practices that are SSC, that is Safe, Sane and Consensual (safe, sane and consensual), a term coined in 1983 by David Stein. Their ideologue defined as follows:
"BDSM relationships should remain a safe, sane and consensual practices regarding:
- Secure in the knowledge needed about their development and on material used and on risk prevention.
- Wise, as to the reasonable capabilities of any decision from the players, not impaired by drugs or drinking and commensurate with the experience of each participant, knowing differentiate fantasy and reality.
- Agreed, in that the participants agree on the shape and intensity with which they are made, and also that the agreement may be terminated at any time."
In BDSM, there are two roles: submissive (also bottom or passive) and dominant (also used the term top, or active). Also, some people like to exercise both roles, depending on the time or the person acting. The key is to enjoy these practices through the initiative and control of the action, while the submissive takes pleasure in giving oneself in the hands of the dominant, be it for a guide. In this case we speak of an activist switch, with the English term designating that can switch or reverse an action or phenomenon.
There are also categories within the different roles:
- Guardian: It is someone experienced in BDSM, you start to another. May be exercised at any role, ie a submissive person may be the guardian of a Parent. However, it is more often an exercise Parent as Parent or Guardian of other submissive.
- Maestro: Maestro is considered to Parent that he is pursuing his role flawlessly in the eyes of the submissive, it is who gives the title if it considers.
- Amo: Dominant own one or more submissive.
- Slave submissive apparently has no limits
The BDSM relationship with the law is complex, given the particular nature of these relationships. Don't forget that the laws governing sexual intercourse in each country are very different. The
Like all structured culture, BDSM has its own language, an argot, interlocking words used almost exclusively in the community (24 / 7), general mining words but of great significance in it (dominant) and words with an entirely different meaning within the BDSM for the rest of society (vanilla).
By contrast, many of the words in much of the briefs on BDSM, printed or published on the Web, actually belong to a more extensive vocabulary could be defined as sexological vocabulary (fisting, golden showers, cunnilingus , etc.)..


