Editing Dominance and submission (section)

==D/s relationship styles==
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There can be any number of partners in a D/s relationship: one dominant may have several submissives, who may in turn dominate others, or a submissive may have multiple dominants. Relationships may be [[monogamous]] or [[polyamorous]]. Romantic love is not necessarily a feature in D/s: partners might be very much in love or have no romantic relationship at all. Some D/s relationships are sexual, others completely chaste.

[[Fantasy role play]] can be an element, with partners taking classic dominant or submissive roles, or classic authority-figure roles such as teacher and student, police officer and suspect, or parent and child. [[Human pony|Animal play]], where one partner takes the role of owner or caretaker and the other takes the part of a pet or animal, can also be D/s play.

A classic example of a D/s role is the [[Feminization (activity)|"sissy" maid]], where an adult male dresses in cartoonish female clothing and performs [[stereotype|stereotypical]] female chores such as housecleaning or serving tea. Cross-dressing in D/s does not always involve a desire to be sissified or made into caricatures of women or to serve: for example, others may desire to be made as beautiful as possible and interact on a "girlfriend-to-girlfriend" non-sexual basis.

Variation in D/s is virtually limitless and the activities take many forms, and may be combined with other forms of BDSM. These variations may include:

* professional – [[Dominatrix]]
* [[Male dominance (BDSM)|Maledom]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Male Dominance (Maledom)? - Definition from Kinkly |url=http://www.kinkly.com/definition/1182/male-dominance-maledom |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=Kinkly.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131162026/https://www.kinkly.com/definition/1182/male-dominance-maledom |url-status=live }}</ref>
* resistance play – forcing the submissive to do something against their will as an intense form of power play<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Queer BDSM intimacies: Critical consent and pushing boundaries|last=Bauer|first=Robin|year=2014|location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan}}</ref>
* domestic [[servitude (BDSM)|servitude]] or consensual [[Slave (BDSM)|slavery]]
* enforced [[chastity]] of the submissive
* [[sexual slavery (BDSM)|sexual slavery]]
*[[Sexual fetishism|fetishes]] – such as [[Foot fetishism|foot fetish]], boot worship, uniforms, smoking, latex and other items can be fetishes. 
* humiliation (breast humiliation for its size and shape, clitoris and labia size humiliation, humiliation for not having curvy or big buttocks and hips, small penis humiliation, verbal humiliation)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adriana |date=2022-04-18 |title=128 BDSM Humiliation & Degradation Kink Ideas |url=https://badgirlsbible.com/erotic-humiliation-bdsm-degradation-kink |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=Bad Girls Bible |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604204704/https://badgirlsbible.com/erotic-humiliation-bdsm-degradation-kink |url-status=live }}</ref>
* dehumanization<ref name=":3" /> (e.g., pony, puppy or [[animal roleplay]])
* objectification ([[human furniture]]): (e.g., submissive's body used as [[footstool]], or sub's mouth used as [[Spittoon|spitting bowl]] and cigarette [[ashtray]])
* [[cross-dressing]]
* [[Flagellation|whipping]]
* [[corporal punishment]]
* [[trampling (sexual practice)|trampling]]
* human toilet – [[Golden shower (urolagnia)|golden showers]]
* [[cuckquean]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adriana |date=2020-12-04 |title=Cuckqueaning: Everything You Need To Know About This Unusual Fetish! |url=https://badgirlsbible.com/cuckquean |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=Bad Girls Bible |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611063747/https://badgirlsbible.com/cuckquean |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[feminization (activity)|feminization]]
* [[cuckold]]
* [[bondage (sexual)]]
* [[public humiliation]]