DB - bandage and discipline;

DS - dominant and submissive (dominance and subordination);

SM is sadomasochism.

Thus, in general terms, BDSM covers sexual practices based on the exchange of power and associated with deprivation of mobility, pain and humiliation. Everything at once is not necessary, but one condition is always met: the listed actions are voluntary.

American scientists have found that people engaged in BDSM reduce the level of psychological stress, improve mood and increase sexual arousal.

But their most interesting finding is that practitioners enter a state of altered consciousness.

True, the sensations of dominants and submissives are different. The former fall into a pleasant state of complete concentration on the process and loss of self-consciousness (due to merging with activity). The latter, on the contrary, feel complete relaxation, peacefulness and a sense of life in the present moment.