Editing Female submission (section)

{{Short description|Sexual activities with a female submissive partner}}
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'''Female submission''' or '''femsub''' is an activity or relationship in which a woman [[Sexual submission|submits]] to the direction of a [[sexual partner]] or has her body used sexually by or for the [[sexual pleasure]] of her partner. The expression is often associated with [[BDSM]], where submission to such activity is usually voluntarily and [[consensual]]. Submission usually involves a degree of [[Trust (social science)|trust]] by the woman in her partner. The [[Dominant (BDSM)|dominant]] partner is usually a man, but can also be another woman, or there can be multiple dominant partners simultaneously. The submissive woman may derive sexual pleasure or emotional gratification from relinquishing (to varying degrees) control to (as well as satisfying) a trusted dominant partner.

A 1985 study suggested that about 30% of participants in BDSM activities were females.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/BF01550846 |title=On the prevalence and roles of females in the sadomasochistic subculture: Report of an empirical study |year=1985 |last1=Breslow |first1=Norman |last2=Evans |first2=Linda |last3=Langley |first3=Jill |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=303–17 |pmid=4051718|s2cid=31730499 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/BF01541410 |title=The prevalence and some attributes of females in the sadomasochistic subculture: A second report |year=1994 |last1=Levitt |first1=Eugene E. |last2=Moser |first2=Charles |last3=Jamison |first3=Karen V. |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=465–73 |pmid=7993186|s2cid=28743901 }}</ref> A 2015 study indicates that 61.7% of females who are active in BDSM expressed a preference for a submissive role, 25.7% consider themselves a switch, while 12.6% prefer the dominant role<ref>{{cite thesis |degree=Master |title=Through Pain, More Gain? - A Survey into the Psychosocial Benefits of Sadomasochism |year=2015 |last1=Silva |first1=Andrea Duarte |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages=41 |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/48652 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611045214/https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/48652 |archive-date=11 June 2020 }}</ref> but a more recent survey from 2017 indicates that women tend to self-identify as Submissive, Slave, Bottom, or Masochist (SSBM) and always perform submissive roles while men tend to self-identify as Dominant, Master, Top, or Sadist (DMTS) and always perform dominant roles.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martinez |first=Katherine |date=2018 |title=BDSM Role Fluidity: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Investigating Switches Within Dominant/Submissive Binaries |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28854056/ |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=65 |issue=10 |pages=1299–1324 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2017.1374062 |issn=1540-3602 |pmid=28854056|s2cid=23833868 }}</ref>