Vocabulary of BDSM Practices

Vocabulary of BDSM Practices: 131 PLANJUS glossary terms and guides, including Aftercare, Algolagnia, Ball Busting.

• Aftercare — Aftercare is not an option, it's the come-down. After pushing your body and mind to their limits, after being broken and emptied, you are in a state of total vulnerability.
• Algolagnia — Algolagnia is the scientific name for our most beautiful perversion: the brain's ability to rewire pain to transform it into pure pleasure.
• Ball Busting — Ball Busting is a BDSM practice that involves hitting, squeezing, or applying pressure to a partner's testicles.
• BDSM — BDSM, an acronym for Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sado-masochism, is a rich and complex universe where the exploration of fantasies, power, and pain takes place within a framework of trust and mutual respect.
• BDSM Contract — The contract, in the BDSM sphere, has no legal standing. It's a ceremony, a ritual that formalizes the surrender of your will.
• BDSM Flogger — The Flogger, or Cat o' Nine Tails, is an iconic instrument of punishment, inherited from naval and corporal punishments.
• BDSM Mummification — Mummification, in the BDSM context, is a practice of bondage and sensory deprivation where a person's body is entirely wrapped, usually with plastic film, bondage tape, or bandages.
• BDSM Protocol — Protocol is the invisible architecture of your submission. It is not just a list of rules, but the structure that supports your existence as a slave, 24 hours a day.
• BDSM Slave Contract — The slave contract is the sacred text of your dehumanization. It's not a game; it's a document that formalizes the transfer of ownership of yourself to your Master.
• BDSM Training — Training is the process by which a Master transforms a human being into a perfect slave. It is not education; it is programming.
• Beta — The term "Beta" generally refers to a subordinate or secondary position relative to an "Alpha." In bareback and BDSM vocabulary, the Beta is often seen as the lieutenant, the right-hand man of the Alpha.
• Blackmail Fetish — The Blackmail Fetish is the ultimate psychological power play. The submissive voluntarily gives their Dominant "compromising material": nude photos, videos, intimate confessions, sensitive professional information.
• Blood Play — Blood Play is a sacred and dangerous territory. It is the crossing of the last frontier, that of the skin.
• Body Worship — Body Worship is the prayer of the submissive. It is the act of transforming the Dominant's body into a temple, and every square inch of their skin into an altar.
• Bondage — Bondage is the art of tying up one's partner. It is an SM practice that plays on domination, submission, and trust.
• Bondage Rig — A Bondage Rig is not just a simple set of ropes. It is a structure, a frame, often made of metal or wood, specifically designed to completely immobilize a body.
• Branding BDSM — Branding is an extreme BDSM practice that involves marking a partner's skin with a heated object.
• Brat (BDSM) — In the grand theater of submission, the "Brat" is the magnificent troublemaker. This is a submissive who will never surrender on a silver platter.
• Brat Tamer — Not all Dominants are cut out to tame a Brat. It requires a particular profile, an expert, a "Brat Tamer".
• Breath Control (Étouffement) in BDSM — Breath control, or 'étouffement', is a BDSM practice that involves depriving one's partner of oxygen to intensify orgasm.
• Breath Play (Breath Control) — Breath play is the ultimate power game. It's not about your ass or your mouth, but about the air that keeps you alive.
• Breathplay — Breathplay is a flirtation with the edge. It's the act of entrusting your Dominant with the most vital thing you possess: your breath.
• Broken — In the pornographic universe, the term "Broken" describes a state of profound psychological and emotional submission.
• CBT (Cock and Ball Torture) — CBT, or 'Cock and Ball Torture', is a BDSM practice that involves inflicting pain on male genitals.
• CNC (Consensual Non-Consensual) — CNC is the most beautiful and dangerous of lies. It's a scenario, a play in which you are the only two actors, built on the strongest of foundations: total, informed, and enthusiastic consent, negotiated long before the first door slams shut.
• Consensual Sequestration Definition — This is the intelligent and safe version of kidnapping. No external risk, just the intensity of isolation.
• Consent Negotiation — The consent negotiation scene is the most cerebral and intimate form of unveiling. It's a role-play where the act of negotiating itself becomes the source of excitement.
• Crucifixion Play (BDSM) — Basic rope suspension is already a game that forgives no mistakes. The extreme version is playing Russian roulette because it involves suspending someone unconscious, who can no longer give their safeword or signal a problem.
• Cuckolding — Cuckolding is not a story of infidelity; it's a spectacle of impotence and absolute power, orchestrated for the twisted pleasure of the one being cheated on.
• Cutting BDSM — Cutting is the ultimate signature, written in blood ink. It is an act of trust where you offer your skin to your Master's blade, not for suffering, but for the mark.
• D/s (Dominance and Submission) — Forget everything you think you know about power. In a D/s relationship, we're not talking about brute force, but about an exchange, a consensual and infinitely more exciting power play.
• Definition of Discipline (BDSM) — Discipline is an act of love and possession. It is not the anger of a master, but the rigor of an owner shaping their most precious possession.
• Definition of Punishment — Punishment is a training tool. It's not anger, it's mechanics.
• Definition of Sought Punishment (Funishment) — In this context, sought punishment is a pleasure, the most delicious of manipulations. As the submissive, you are secretly pulling the strings.
• Discover the definition of Service Top — A Dominant at service to another exists. The "Service Top" is a Dominant whose pleasure lies in the perfection of the experience they offer to their submissive.
• Discover the Dominant Mindset — The "Dominant Mindset" is a switch in the head. It's the moment you stop being an ordinary person to become a force of nature, an embodied authority.
• Dog Training (BDSM) Definition — Dog training is a BDSM practice where a submissive is treated like a dog by their master. They are on all fours, on a leash, wearing a collar, and eating from a bowl.
• Dogging — Dogging is the ultimate hunt. It's a return to a primal state, a practice that blends the thrill of the forbidden, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and the raw need to be used by strangers.
• Dom/Dominant — A Dominant, a Domina, does not take power. They reveal it.
• Dressage (Training) — Dressage is the process by which a Master transforms a human being into a perfect slave. It is not education; it is programming.
• Drowning Play (BDSM) — Drowning play is the most dangerous form of "breath play." It is no longer about controlling breathing but suppressing it with water.
• Edgeplay Definition — Edgeplay is often described in vague terms in French such as "sans tabou" (without taboo), "notabou", "no limit", "sans limite" (without limit), and it remains a dance on a razor's edge.
• Edging — Edging is the most delicious torture there is. It's the art of keeping you on the razor's edge, on the verge of explosion, for an eternity.
• Ego Death (Mort de l'ego) — Ego Death and Identity Erasure are not a scene—they are a demolition project. It is the most extreme evolution of psychological domination, a long-term process aimed at completely dismantling a submissive's original identity.
• Electro-stimulation (E-stim) BDSM — Electro-stimulation, or e-stim, is the practice of using electric currents to induce intense sensations and involuntary muscle contractions.
• Erotic Asphyxiation — Erotic asphyxiation, also known as asphyxiophilia, is a dangerous practice that involves voluntarily depriving oneself of oxygen to intensify sexual sensations, often with the aim of achieving a more intense orgasm.
• Erotic Humiliation — Erotic humiliation is a striptease of the soul. The goal is not to hurt you, but to free you from the weight of your own dignity.
• Extreme Bodily Fluid Play — Here, we cross the last taboos of intimacy, where even the most open-minded turn back. We are no longer talking about pee or semen, but the ultimate bodily excretions.
• Extreme Body Modification — Here, we are no longer talking about tattoos or piercings. We enter the realm of permanent possession, of the indelible mark.
• Extreme Dilatation — Extreme Dilatation refers to the intentional and progressive widening of a bodily opening, often anal or vaginal, well beyond its usual limits.
• Fear Play — Fear Play, or "game of fear," is the most powerful aphrodisiac. It's not about scaring you; it's about making you believe you are scared, triggering the primal danger response in your body, while knowing, deep down, that you are perfectly safe.
• Fear Play (with Real Threat) — There is a type of fear-based sex where the threat is simulated, and everyone knows it's a game.
• Feederism — Feederism is a power dynamic centered on food and body transformation. It is a form of possession where excitement arises from the act of feeding or being fed, with the goal of consensual weight gain.
• Figging — Figging is an internal fire. It's the introduction of a piece of ginger into your ass, not for penetration, but for the burning sensation.
• Financial Domination (FinDom) — Financial Domination is the most vicious form of control. You don't give your body; you give your autonomy, your purchasing power, your security.
• Financial Slave (Moneyslave) — Being a financial slave has nothing to do with being a "sugar daddy". A sugar daddy exchanges money for company.
• Fire Play — Fire Play is a pact with instinct. It's the pleasure of submitting your most primal fear to your Master's will.
• Fist Fucking (FF) — Fist fucking is the art of introducing the hand, or even the forearm, into a partner's anus or vagina.
• Flipfuck (Flip) — Flipfuck is simple: it's the act of exchanging roles during the same sexual encounter. There is no longer a defined dominant or submissive, no assigned top or bottom.
• Forced Feminization — Forced Feminization is an assassination. That of the man you once were.
• Forced Orgasm Definition — Forced Orgasm is the theft of your intimacy. It is proof that even your most personal pleasure does not belong to you.
• Frenzy — Frenzy is the moment when control gives way to pure instinct, where the dominant and the submissive are nothing more than two animals caught in a storm of desire.
• Gagging in BDSM — A "gag" is an object used in BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sado-Masochism) practices to obstruct a partner's mouth, preventing them from speaking and limiting their actions.
• Headspace — Headspace is a trance state, a disconnection from the outside world where you are nothing more than a floating consciousness, entirely focused on your fuck buddy.
• Humiliation (Bareback) — Humiliation is a stripping of the soul. Its purpose is not to hurt you, but to dissolve your pride, your ego, until only the raw and animal need to be used remains.
• Humiliation (Degradation) — Humiliation is not an insult; it is a purification. It is the art of stripping you of everything you believe yourself to be – your name, your pride, your ego – to reveal only your most essential truth: you are a thing, a body, a hole.
• Hunter / Huntress (BDSM) — For some Dominants, possession is merely the end of the story. The true pleasure lies in the chase.
• Institutional Play (Role Play) — Institutional play is one of the most powerful power fantasies, as it does not rely on a relationship to be built, but on pre-existing and socially recognized authority.
• Keyholder — Imagine giving up the most primary control there is: that of your own orgasm. Imagine locking your dick in a cage and giving the key to someone else.
• Kidnapping Play Definition — This is CNC taken to its extreme, an action movie where you are the consenting victim. The fantasy is to be literally kidnapped: snatched from the street, a bag over your head, hands tied, thrown into the back of a car.
• Knifeplay — Knifeplay is the ultimate thrill. The cold blade gliding over your warm skin is the promise of absolute trust and controlled danger.
• Leather Family (BDSM) — A Leather Family has nothing to do with blood ties. It's a pack one chooses, a clan forged in leather, sweat, and devotion beyond understanding.
• Master/Mistress BDSM — "Master" or "Mistress" are not just words. They are anchors, constant reminders of the power dynamic.
• Master/slave (M/s) — The Master/slave relationship is the embodiment of TPE. These are not roles, but identities.
• Medical Play BDSM — Medical Play is a violation of the deepest intimacy. You are no longer a partner; you are a patient, a body to be examined, a case to be studied.
• Mental Conditioning — Conditioning is the art of engraving one's will directly into your flesh, bypassing your conscious mind.
• Mindfuck — Mindfuck is the art of demolishing your mind to better possess your body. It is an intense psychological manipulation that blurs the lines between true and false, pleasure and pain, leaving you in a state of total confusion where the only stable thing, the only point of reference, is that you are facing a very dangerou
• Monogamy of Power — The Monogamy of Power is the central dogma of your submission. Your Master can fuck whoever he wants, his body is free.
• Need to Serve — The "Need to Serve" is a hunger, a thirst that can only be quenched by total surrender to another.
• Needle Play (BDSM) — Needle Play is a meditation through pain. Each sterile needle that pierces the surface of your skin is a point of intense concentration, a prick that anchors your mind in your body and empties it of all other thoughts.
• Obedience (Obéissance) — Obedience is not a suggestion; it is your only reality. It is the fundamental principle of your existence as a slave.
• Objectification — Objectification is a form of liberation. It is the act of stripping yourself of your humanity to become an object, a mere thing at the service of your Master's pleasure.
• Orgasm Control (BDSM) — Orgasm control is the purest affirmation of one's power over you. Your most intimate pleasure does not belong to you.
• Ownership Mark — An ownership mark is a physical and often permanent symbol intended to signify a power and possession relationship between a dominant and a submissive.
• Pain Play — Pain Play is a conversation. Every hit, every bite, every pressure is a question.
• Pet — Becoming a "Pet" means consenting to an effacement. You are no longer a person playing a role; you become a creature whose existence is entirely defined by its Owner.
• Pony Play Definition — Pony Play is a discipline, a transformation. It involves sculpting one's body through effort to become a powerful and docile mount.
• Possession — Possession is not a feeling, it's a fact. It's the moment when the concept of "you" ceases to exist, to be replaced by the concept of "theirs".
• Posture (BDSM) — Posture is the silent prayer of the submissive. It is the discipline of your body which, at every moment, must proclaim your status: available, offered, waiting to be used, your ass slightly arched even when no one is looking.
• Primal Play — Primal Play is a radical exploration of the deepest and oldest layers of the human psyche.
• Property (BDSM) — The word "Property" is the final destination. It signifies the end of the person and the beginning of the thing.
• Puppy Play Definition — Puppy Play is a return to instinct. It is the desire to leave human complexity behind to embrace a simpler, purer form of devotion.
• Rape Play Definition — Rape Play is the most intense form of CNC, a simulation based on such total trust that it is terrifying.
• Rigger — A Rigger is an architect of desire. They do not use ropes simply to tie, but to prepare a body, to make it available.
• Rituals — Rituals are the slave's routine, the mechanism that transforms submission into a second nature.
• Roleplay — Roleplay is a gateway out of reality, a consensual escape where one allows themselves to become someone else for a few hours.
• Rope Bunny — A Rope Bunny is a body that calls for rope. It's an insatiable hunger for the sensation of fiber that constrains, binds, and draws paths on the skin.
• Sadomasochism (S&M) — S&M: SadomasochismSadomasochism is not a story of violence. It is a sacred alchemy.
• Scat Play (Coprophilia) — This is the last taboo, the ultimate frontier of submission. Scat Play is not about dirtiness, but about absolute devotion.
• Sensation Play — Sensation play is a system overload. It's a concerted attack on your skin, using the heat of wax, the cold of ice, the caress of a feather, or the prickle of a brush to blur all your bearings.
• Sensory Deprivation — Sensory deprivation is the creation of a void to better fill it. With a blindfold over your eyes, earplugs in your ears, you are plunged into a void where the outside world no longer exists.
• Service Submissive — Service Submissive
• Sextoy — A paddle is an impact play instrument, generally composed of a flat, wide surface attached to a handle.
• Sexual Suspension Definition — Suspension is a practice where a person is lifted off the ground, often using ropes, for sexual activities.
• Shibari — Shibari is the art of possession by rope. It's not just about tying, but about reshaping a body, constraining it to reveal its true nature: that of an art object.
• Slave — If submission is a contract, slavery is an act of ownership. A slave is no longer a person playing a role.
• Spanking — Spanking is simply a spank, which is not necessarily linked to BDSM, although there will always be a dominant and a submissive.
• Spit Play (Jeux de salive) — Saliva is the most primary of fluids, the simplest mark of possession. It's not an act of cleanliness, but of territory.
• Struggle Fuck — "Struggle Fuck" is a capture fantasy. It's a scenario where the struggle is the most powerful aphrodisiac.
• Sub-frenzy Definition — "Sub-frenzy" is a short-circuit (frenzy). It's the moment, in the heart of an intense session, where your brain lets go and your body takes over.
• Submissive — Submissive
• Subspace and Slave Space Definition — Subspace is silence. It's an altered state, a deep and peaceful trance you reach after a particularly intense session.
• Surrender — Surrender is not a defeat; it's the moment you stop fighting against your own nature and consciously offer the keys to your soul.
• Taboo-Free Experiences — A taboo-free experience refers to an exploration of desires and fantasies where all conventional limits are abolished.
• Temperature Play Definition — Temperature play is a direct attack on your senses, as it is the art of shocking and awakening the skin with extremes.
• TENS Unit Definition — A TENS Unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) is a medical device repurposed for erotic electrostimulation, sending electrical impulses via electrodes to create sensations ranging from tingling to intense muscle contraction.
• The Merit in Submission — Here, submission is not a gift. It's a trophy.
• The Title in BDSM — The "Title" is the name of your god. Whether it's Master, Sir, Daddy, or any other agreed-upon term, it's the word that crystallizes the relationship.
• Tickle Torture Definition — Tickle torture is a devastating psychological weapon. It bypasses all your defenses to attack you where you are most vulnerable: your own reflexes.
• Tits Work — Tits work, or nipple stimulation, involves stimulating the nipples. You can pinch them, nibble them, twist them...
• Topping from the Bottom Definition — "Topping from the Bottom" is the most subtle art of submission. It's the secret game of the submissive who, while appearing to submit, is actually the grand architect of the scene.
• Total Encasement — Total Encasement is the ultimate experience of objectification. It's not about being locked in a cage or a room, but about seeing one's own body become the prison.
• Total Power Exchange (TPE) — TPE is not a Saturday night game. It's a life.
• Trash Plan Definition — The term "trash plan," derived from English, refers to a category of sexual encounters that include practices considered "dirty," "degrading," "extreme," or "hardcore" by most people.
• Trip — In the jargon of gay dating, when someone asks you "what's your trip?", they're not asking about the latest rave party pill or LSD.
• Urethral Sounding — Urethral sounding is an exploration of limits, a game for the most audacious. It is the act of inserting a thin, perfectly smooth and sterile metal rod directly into the urethra.
• Urethral Sounding Definition — Some people enjoy the use of a urethral sound for their sexual encounters. This type of play fits perfectly within the framework of CBT (Cock and Ball Torture).
• Vanilla Definition — In casual sexual slang, "vanilla" is a term borrowed from English to describe sexual practices considered "conventional" or "mild." It is the opposite of more specialized, fetishistic, or "hardcore" practices.
• Vorarephilia (Vore) — Vorarephilia, or "vore," is a fantasy and must absolutely remain so. It is the erotic desire to be eaten, to eat someone, or to observe the scene.
• Water Sports (Jeux Humides) — Water Sports are the breaking of an ultimate taboo. It's where intimacy becomes so total that it embraces even what the body rejects.
• Waxplay (Candle Wax Play) — Waxplay, or candle wax play, is simple and direct: hot candle wax is poured onto your skin.