Terms that have changed in meaning

[Ozme52]

I thought the four-letter acronym BDSM was a conflation of
BD - Bondage and Discipline Yes
DS - Dominance and Submission No. This is a post-internet addition to the definitions.
SM - Sado-Masochism Yes

okies.. on my own site I have what does BDSM stand for.


"What Does BDSM Stand For?
B&D means bondage and dominance, also referred to as bondage and discipline.

S&M stands for sadism and masochism.

D&S also found together means dominance and submission.

Summed up, or married as one it all stands for an individual(s)
dominating a submissive person(s) in a sexual situation."

cg

BD is/was about Bondage and Discipline, (i.e., punishment.) Remember the old B&D magazines? They had nothing to do with domination or submission per se. Not in the sense we use those terms when we write D/s.

SM has always been about pleasure from pain. Sadists get pleasure by giving pain, masochists from the getting of pain.

The whole D/s conversation and the "need" to find it a place within BDSM has also created a wealth of vocabulary...

so to continue the wordplay...

Top.

Bottom.

I mean... what could be more mundane than those two words?