The op wasnt asking about submission...but if you want to get technical about it thir...everyone submits to someone somehow some of the time no matter who one is in real life.

In other words both "dominance" and "submission" exist, just as they have throughout all of known human history, outside of it's bdsm context.

The hierarchy of dominion model universally applies during all human interactions even when said humans are not consciously aware of it. It's part of who and what we all are, despite the best attempts of some to live in denial of it.

Some forms of submission are more subtle than others, just as some forms of dominance are.

Just becuase its not overtly sexualized and in one's face as it is sometimes during one's practice of the art (bdsm) doesnt some how make it disapear or change the meaning of the words dominance and submission all of the sudden.