Practitioners of: Safe • Sane • Consensual. & Risk • Aware • Consensual • Kink.
Glossary of Kink/BDSM terms
Blood Play • Any activity that draws blood.
Bottom • A person who receives an activity in a scene.
Bunny • One who allows themselves to be tied in rope.
CBT • Cock and Ball Torture.
Dominant • A person who takes control of another person.
Electrical Play • A type of play where electricity is used on the body.
Edge Play • Activities that are inherently risky. For example, suffocation.
Impact Play • A form of play where one person strikes another.
Lifestyle • A name for BDSM used by people who practice it.
Masochist • Person who enjoys or seeks out pain.
Master • A term used by a submissive as a title for their Dominant.
Medical Play • Scenes using medical equipment such as speculums.
Mistress • A term used by a submissive as a title for their Dominant.
Mummification • A form of bondage where a person is completely restricted and immobilized.
Play • To engage in BDSM activities.
Poly • Polyamory, non-monogamy & ethical non-monogamy describes a range of relationship styles where partners are not monogamous, but neither do they cheat.
PRICK • Personal Responsibility in Consensual Kink.
RACK • Risk Aware Consensual Kink.
Rigger • A person who ties another person in rope.
Sadist • Person who enjoys or seeks out inflicting pain on masochists.
Sensation Play • Activities designed to elicit a range of physical sensations. That range from pleasant to painful.
Scene • A discrete portion of time dedicated to a single, or a number of, BDSM-specific activities.
Submissive • Person who allows another to take control of aspects of their life or experience over an extended time.
Slave • A person who has given up a large amount of control in their lives to another.
SSC • Safe, Sane and Consensual.
Swinging • Swinging is a lifestyle of casual sex with multiple people.
Vanilla • Refers to the non-kink people or activities.
Top • Person who controls the activity in a scene.
Wax Play • A form of sensual play in which a person drips warm or hot wax onto their partner’s skin.
Worship • Used in conjunction with a particular item or body-part (e.g., boot worship, genital worship). Worship usually involves licking, sucking and kissing the area.