A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY [chapter]

2020 Techniques of Pleasure  
In bdsm, terminology matters. The community recognizes itself-its practices, its desires-in and through a shared, yet contested, language. In this note, I do not attempt to pin down this complex and proliferating terminology with formalized definitions, but rather to give the reader a few conceptual signposts-some bearings-within the shifting discursive field that constitutes contemporary bdsm. The terms sm and bdsm are used interchangeably to denote a di-
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