by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
Explore what you need to know when working with FLR and BDSM practitioners.
by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
This mixed-methods study of BDSM investigates the nuances of BDSM participants' role identities, role frequencies, and role fluidities-shifts in identities and play across time, location, scene, and play partner. Data were gathered from 202 online surveys and 25...
by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
Background: Published studies show good psychological health of people involved in bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism (BDSM) activities; nevertheless, there are few studies on characteristics related to gender, role in the BDSM scene,...
by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
BDSM is an omnibus term covering a spectrum of activities within bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism relationships. To date, BDSM practitioners experience stigma due to a general unfamiliarity with the practice and marginalization of this...
by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
What is a dominant-submissive relationship? When it comes to defining and understanding BDSM, people (especially those in vanilla relationships) generally link it with Fifty Shades of Grey and Christian Grey’s kinky equipment like handcuffs, chains, ropes – you...
by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | Feb 18, 2020
Many bondage-discipline, domination-submission, sadomasochism (BDSM) practitioners identify as primarily dominant or primarily submissive. In the current study, BDSM practitioners with self-identified preferences for dominance or for submission described the traits...
