Bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism
An umbrella term for kink involving power, restraint or intensity, practiced by consent.
| Type | Modern shorthand and terms |
|---|---|
| Category | ENM and kink |
| Stands for | Bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism |
| First recorded | 1991, Usenet, Wikipedia, BDSM |
The initialism BDSM is first recorded in a Usenet post in 1991. It combined older abbreviations, B&D and S&M, into one word covering a whole community.
On AseeksB, kink roles are set with role tags on each post rather than spelled out in abbreviations.
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How this fits into 170 years of personal ad shorthand: From Object Matrimony to LTR: How Personal Ads Learned to Talk in Code.
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