Category:Activities

BDSM activities can be divided into two types:

• Physical activities - activities which revolve around physical interaction between the participants, such as flogging, bondage, discipline, cutting, pain play, etc.

• Psychological activities - activities which primarily revolve around a psychological, emotional, or spiritual engagement between the participants, such as dominance and submission, humiliation, mind fucks, etc.

Bear in mind that all of these activities are rarely ends in themselves. It is generally the case that BDSMers engage in BDSM activities to get a psychological result. Thus, someone who looks for a heavy flogging session isn't going to be doing it just to get red marks or bruises. Likewise, someone engaging in humiliation isn't doing it just to feel bad or insulted. Instead, they're going to be looking for some positive psychological, spiritual, or emotional outcome.

Note that most physical activities don't leave permanent marks. There are some exceptions to this, notably branding and scarification---and perhaps piercing and cutting---where a permanent mark or change is made to the person's body, but these not very common.