Master & slave
These relationships can be from a single night of role playing to a full time (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) relationship.
There are varying degrees of the Master and slave relationships. These can run from simple ownership to Bondage and Discipline and/or Sadism and Masochism (BDSM). In all cases, these relationships should be sane, safe, consentual and non-abusive. BDSM is a form of erotic play that can involves significant physical and emotional risks, and thus requires instruction in order to do so with reasonable safety. We strongly advocate, if you are inexperienced, that you seek out experienced Masters and/or slaves, in your area who may be willing instruction. This section provides merely some terminology and information that you may find helpful
Terminology
Please note that terms refering to submissives are in lower case (as is custom) and therefore appear at the end of this listing.
 | Collar - A locking device worn around the neck. An instrument of ownership and control by a Master. A primary emblem of the slave's submissiveness and status as an owned property. |
| Consensual - An activity done with the consent of adults. |
| Daddy - A person who is responsible for providing loving guidance, support and instruction to a boy. (See boy, below) |
| Dominant - A person who exercises authority or control over a person who yields control. The one who decides what happens and when. |
| Domination - The exertion of control over another person for the erotic enjoyment of both partners. (see submission, below) |
| Master - The person who has been given the right of ownership, control, authority and power over a slave. The person who assumes total control and responsibility over the slave or submissive partner. (see slave, below) |
| Ownership - The right to use a subject in a manner, or to an extent, which, though it is not unlimited, is indefinite |
| Property - Something or someone regarded as being possesses by, or at the disposal of, another person. |
| Relationship - A consensual commitment and devotion, by two adults, to the quality or state of being within a passionate, intimate and loving union without the formal or legal state of marriage or wedlock, but with the rights and obligations of a state of marriage. |
| SM - An abbreviation for Sadomasochism and/or Sadistic and masochistic practices. |
| Sadomasochism is a condition in which Sadism and masochism coexist within a relationship; where the use of psychological Dominance and submission, and/or physical bondage, and/or pain, and/or related practices are employed in a safe, consensual manner in order for the participants to experience erotic arousal and/or sexual pleasure. |
| Safewords - A specific word, verbal, or other signals, non-verbal, agreed to by both the Dominant and submissive partners, to be used during a sexual encounter or activity, in the event of an emergency and/or to indicate the activity has become or is becoming too intense, physically, mentally or sexually. These words or signals are chosen in such a way to be unlikely to be used in the contest of the encounter or activity. |
| boy is the person who needs, wants and desires guidance, instruction and discipline from a Master or Daddy. |
| slave is the person who is willing owned as property by a Master and is absolutely subject to the Masters will; bondservant divested of all freedom and personal rights. |
| submission is the release of control over oneself, to whatever extent, for the erotic pleasure of both the Dominant and submissive partners. |
| submissive is the person who yields control, and who obeys orders, and/or directions, and will permit themselves to be bound, or tortured, if doing so pleases their Dominant partner. |