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Lecture Notes

Bondage and discipline is the most widely known form of domination and submission. It is when a person is bound with scarves, leather straps, underwear, handcuffs, or chains while another simulates or engages in light to moderate discipline activities such as spanking or whipping. The bound person may also be blindfolded or gagged. This may take place in a special setting known as dungeons, furnished with restraints, body suspension devices, racks, whips, as well as chains.

Another form of domination and submission is humiliation, in which a person is degraded. Humiliation can occur in many forms. Klismaphilia, is the sexual pleasure derived from receiving enemas or water treatments in the anus. There is also urophilia, AKA golden showers, which is the sexual pleasure from contact with urine. Coprophilia is the sexual pleasure from contact with feces and is also known as scat. There are other humiliation activities such as servilism, infantilism, kennilism, or tongue lashing. Servilism is when a person desires to be treated as a servant or slave. Infantilism or AKA babyism is when a person acts in a babyish manner using baby talk, wearing diapers, being pampered, scolded, or spanked by his or her "mommy" or "daddy."

 

Kennilism is being treated like a dog. The individual may wear a studded dog collar and like being tied to a leash. Or the individual could be ridden like a horse while the dominant partner applies whips or spurs. And then there is tongue lashing. This is the verbal abuse by a dominant partner who uses languages that humiliate and degrade the other person.

Domination and submission are engaged in private or as part of an organized subculture complete with clubs and business catering to the acting out of domination and submission.

 

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