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Bdsm (noun) means Sexual activities and relationships involving tying someone up, control, and giving or receiving pain or discipline for pleasure.

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Sexual activities and relationships involving tying someone up, control, and giving or receiving pain or discipline for pleasure.
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Etymology

Contracted initialism of B&D + D/s + S&M, meaning respectively bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism.

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"bdsm" (noun) means sexual activities and relationships involving tying someone up, control, and giving or receiving pain or discipline for pleasure.
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