Dominance and submission ( D & S or D/s) (including 'master and slave' role-playing scenarios and ongoing relationship structures).The term BDSM is a portmanteau of initialisms intended to encompass all of the following activities: BDSM abbreviations have their origins in classified personal advertisements, where euphemisms for paraphilic and socially-disapproved practices were required by periodical editors to circumvent censorship and obscenity law.
