Complete bodily restraint using wrapping materials like plastic wrap or bandages.

Mummification

Role-playing different ages or life stages between consenting adults. This may involve caregiving dynamics or power exchange.

Age Play

A form of power exchange relationship involving extensive control and ownership dynamics.

Master/slave

Using specific language, commands, or dialogue for erotic purposes during scenes.

Verbal Play

Using masks for anonymity, role-play, or sensory modification during scenes.

Masks

Exploring different gender expressions and roles in intimate contexts.

Gender Play

Using various devices designed for restraint such as cuffs, shackles, or specialized bondage equipment.

Restraints

Pre-negotiated power exchange scenarios that simulate non-consensual situations while maintaining clear boundaries and safety protocols.

Consensual Non-Consent

Exploring raw, animalistic aspects of sexuality through uninhibited expression.

Primal Play

Using hair pulling for sensation and control during intimate activities.

Hair Pulling

Exploring various sensory experiences through different textures, temperatures, and stimuli to create pleasure or intensity.

Sensation Play

Using blindfolds to remove visual stimulation and enhance other senses during intimate activities.

Blindfolding

Reverence and service toward a female dominant, often incorporating spiritual or ritualistic elements.

Goddess Worship

Focus on nipple stimulation, which may include clamps, suction, or other forms of manipulation.

Nipple Play

The practice of bringing someone close to orgasm repeatedly without allowing release.

Edging

Focus on oral activities and sensations beyond traditional oral practices.

Oral Fixation

Deriving pleasure from performing or receiving domestic tasks and services within a power exchange dynamic.

Domestic Service

Focused reverence and attention to specific body parts or the entire body of a partner.

Body Worship

Focused attention and reverence toward leather items and clothing.

Leather Worship

Interest in wearing or appreciating corsets, both for aesthetic purposes and for the sensation of restriction.

Corsetry

Removing one or more senses (usually sight or hearing) to heighten other sensations and create intense experiences.

Sensory Deprivation

Attraction to stockings, pantyhose, and similar leg wear. Can involve wearing, viewing, or tactile interaction.

Stockings

Consensual striking of the body using hands, paddles, crops, or other implements. This includes but goes beyond spanking to encompass various techniques and tools.

Impact Play

Latex fetishism is the sexual attraction to people wearing latex clothing or using latex objects. Latex clothing is made from latex rubber and is often shiny, tight-fitting, and form-fitting. Latex fetishists may enjoy the look, feel, or smell of latex clothing and may engage in a variety of activities involving latex.

Latex

Transform into or treating someone as a doll, often involving specific clothing and behavior.

Dollification

Interest in leather clothing, culture, and accessories. Often associated with BDSM community traditions and specific aesthetic preferences.

Leather

Creating situations where the bound person must choose between two or more uncomfortable positions or situations.

Predicament Bondage

The practice of prolonged arousal without release, often as part of power exchange dynamics.

Tease and Denial

Using chains for bondage, decoration, or symbolic restraint in power exchange dynamics.

Chains

Engaging in physical wrestling for erotic purposes or power exchange.

Wrestling

A form of pet play specifically focused on equine roles and equipment.

Pony Play

Spanking is a common form of impact play that involves striking the buttocks with an open hand or other object. Spanking can be used for punishment, discipline, or erotic stimulation.

Spanking

Controlling when and if a partner is allowed to orgasm. This can include denial, forced orgasms, or scheduled permission.

Orgasm Control

A form of pet play specifically focused on canine roles and behaviors.

Puppy Play

Using dulled blades for sensation play and psychological intensity. Requires extensive safety knowledge and careful practice.

Knife Play

Using specialized electrical devices designed for erotic stimulation. Requires specific safety knowledge and appropriate equipment.

Electro-Stimulation

The consensual enjoyment of being watched by others during intimate activities, always within appropriate and legal contexts.

Exhibitionism

A specific form of bondage that uses rope to create intricate patterns and restraints. Practitioners often appreciate both the functional and aesthetic aspects of rope work, including Japanese-inspired Shibari/Kinbaku.

Rope Bondage

Using tickling for pleasure or torture in consensual scenarios.

Tickling

Using hypnosis techniques for erotic purposes between consenting partners. Requires specific training and safety knowledge.

Erotic Hypnosis

Interest in full-body spandex or similar material suits that cover the entire body.

Zentai

Controlling breathing patterns for erotic purposes. This is considered edge play and requires extensive safety knowledge.

Breath Play

Interest in nylon materials, particularly in clothing and stockings.

Nylon

Rope bondage that involves lifting a person off the ground. Requires extensive safety knowledge.

Suspension

Role-playing medical scenarios and procedures in a safe, consensual context. May involve examination tables, medical tools, and caregiver dynamics.

Medical Play

Specific focus on restraining wrists using various implements such as cuffs, rope, or chains.

Wrist Restraints

The practice of sitting on a partner's face for pleasure or dominance.

Face Sitting

The practice of sitting on a partner's face, often in a dominant context.

Queening

A specific form of pet play where one partner takes on feline characteristics and behaviors.

Kitten Play

Pet play is a type of role play where one person takes on the role of a pet and another person takes on the role of a pet owner or handler. The pet may act like a dog, cat, pony, or other animal, and the owner may provide care, training, and discipline. Pet play can be a fun and playful way to explore power dynamics and BDSM.

Pet Play

Finding fulfillment in providing service to a dominant partner through various tasks and activities.

Service Submission

The practice of turning a person into furniture through poses or positions, often combined with bondage.

Forniphilia

Using sterile needles for sensation and aesthetic purposes. Requires extensive safety knowledge.

Needle Play

Using different temperatures for sensation play, often combined with other forms of stimulation.

Temperature Play

A foot fetish is a sexual interest in feet. People with foot fetishes may be attracted to feet, toes, shoes, or other foot-related objects. Foot fetishism is a common fetish and can be enjoyed in a variety of ways, from foot worship to foot massage to foot play.

Foot Fetish

Using teeth for sensation play, marking, or stimulation within safe parameters.

Biting

Using physical or psychological isolation as part of power exchange or sensory play.

Isolation

The practice of feeding someone by hand as part of nurturing or power exchange dynamics.

Hand Feeding

Interest in various types of uniforms, either wearing them or appreciating them on others.

Uniforms

Deriving pleasure from inflicting consensual pain or discomfort on others.

Sadism

Creating temporary marks on the body through various means as a form of claiming or decoration.

Marking

Combining yoga positions with bondage techniques for flexibility and restraint.

Yoga Bondage

Using fire for sensation play in a controlled environment. Requires extensive safety knowledge and experience.

Fire Play

The consensual enjoyment of watching others engage in intimate activities, always within appropriate and legal contexts.

Voyeurism

Interest in anthropomorphic animal characters, often involving fursonas and costumes.

Furry

Focused attention and reverence toward boots, often in a D/s context.

Boot Worship

Focused attention and reverence toward male genitalia.

Cock Worship

Japanese-style tight binding, with emphasis on the emotional and aesthetic aspects of bondage.

Kinbaku

Using devices or rules to prevent sexual activity or orgasm.

Chastity

Interest in decorative undergarments, either wearing them or appreciating them on others.

Lingerie

Interest in high-heeled shoes, either wearing them or appreciating them on others.

Heels

Incorporating food items into intimate activities for sensation or visual appeal.

Food Play

The practice of dripping warm wax on the body for sensory stimulation. This requires specific safety knowledge and appropriate candles designed for body use.

Wax Play

Interest in female dominants who specialize in domination, often with specific aesthetic and behavioral elements.

Dominatrix

Bondage is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhering bandage, or other restraints may be used for this purpose.

Bondage

Using leashes with collars for control and symbolic representation of power exchange.

Leash and Collar

The practice of wearing or giving a collar as a symbol of commitment or ownership in a D/s relationship. Can range from play collars to formal relationship symbols.

Collaring

Using specialized equipment to create a vacuum seal around the body for restriction.

Vacuum Bed

The practice of training a submissive partner to follow rules and protocols, often involving punishment for infractions.

Discipline

Activities involving urine in consensual scenarios.

Water Sports

Wearing clothing typically associated with another gender for pleasure or expression.

Cross-Dressing

Japanese-style rope bondage focusing on aesthetic and technical rope work.

Shibari

Role-playing vampire scenarios, often involving biting and blood play.

Vampire Play

Humiliation is a consensual form of psychological play that involves the consensual use of verbal or physical acts to create feelings of embarrassment, shame, or degradation in a submissive partner. Humiliation play can involve a wide range of activities, from mild teasing to more intense forms of degradation.

Humiliation

Consensual psychological play involving verbal or physical acts that create feelings of worthlessness or shame.

Degradation

Creating decorative rope patterns that serve as temporary clothing or restraint.

Japanese Rope Dress

The practice of exercising control over a consenting partner. This can include giving orders, setting rules, and controlling activities within agreed-upon boundaries.

Dominance

Consensually treating a partner as an object, often combined with other forms of power exchange.

Objectification

Deriving pleasure from receiving pain or discomfort in a consensual context.

Masochism

Consensual power exchange involving symbolic or psychological ownership within agreed boundaries.

Ownership

Interest in unusual or alien concepts in role-play scenarios.

Xenophilia

The practice of penetrative sex using a strap-on device.

Pegging

The consensual act of yielding control to a dominant partner. This may involve following orders, adhering to rules, and serving within pre-negotiated boundaries.

Submission

A consensual arrangement where one partner derives pleasure from their partner having intimate relations with others.

Cuckolding

Acting out different characters or scenarios for erotic pleasure. This can range from simple power exchange dynamics to elaborate storylines and costumes.

Role Play

Using devices to restrict speech or oral access, often in bondage scenarios. Requires safety knowledge and non-verbal communication systems.