BDSM encompasses a wide range of fetish practices centered on domination and submission. Slaves endure bondage, painful spankings and canings, humiliations both public and private, and much more for the pleasure of their skilled and often sadistic masters and mistresses.The world of BDSM contains not only its own sex acts is smelling a foot sex? Sure, if it gets you off!, but its own highly-robust vocabulary, too. Since all that terminology can be intimidating for newcomers, let’s start with the basics: BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism—the core pillars of kinky fun. Beyond that, there’s a whole language to describe the consensual power exchange practices that take place under the BDSM umbrella.