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Session (BDSM)

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A session in the BDSM context is a temporary sadomasochistic interaction between one or more persons.

See also

Euler Diagram of Acceptance

BDSM is primarily about acceptance, and your willingness to accept things that you don't normally accept, in a sexual context.

In this diagram, we see three zones:

  • Green zone of things that are easily accepted,
  • Red zone of things that cannot be accepted, and,
  • Yellow/Orange zone of things that can be accepted, but effort is required.

BDSM is about exploring the yellow/orange zone.

BDSM is about Complete Acceptance

Sometimes there are things we accept, but only grudgingly. In BDSM, this doesn't count. Acceptance must be complete.

Euler Diagram of Complete Acceptance

So we can re-label the Euler diagram more precisely thus:

Euler Diagram of Complete Acceptance
Euler Diagram of Acceptance within the Session

Adding a "Session" to the Diagram

A BDSM session is an activity where two people with some kind of sexual connection act in a manner such that at least one of them explores his or her willingness to completely accept certain things which they do not normally accept.

The most important feature of a BDSM session is its boundary.

On the right is an example of a session with a boundary added to the Diagram of Complete Acceptance.

In this case, the boundary lies entirely within the yellow/orange and green zones.

Within the green zone, the session is relatively boring (although anticipation may be felt); in the yellow/orange zone it becomes interesting.

If both parties in the session clearly understand that the session boundary is one which does not extend into the red zone, then one or both parties can achieve complete acceptance more easily, simply by deciding to "take whatever comes".

Euler Diagram with Use of Safeword within the Session

The red zone and safe word However, it can be difficult to define session boundaries which completely avoid the red zone, yet which allow the possibility of visiting all interesting locations within the yellow/orange zone. So in practice a pre-defined session boundary may not completely exclude the red zone.

For such a session, some kind of "safe word" will be required.

On the right is a session with a boundary that extends a little bit into the red zone.

(Note: there is no single official BDSM convention about safe words, but sometimes color words like "red", "orange", "yellow" and "green" are used with meanings corresponding to the usage of those colors in the diagrams in this article.)

This article based on an article The Venn Diagram of Acceptance from SM theory.
This article based on an article Session (12 November 2016) from the free Encyklopedia Spanking Art Wiki. The Spanking Art Wiki article is published under GNU-License for free Documentation. In Spanking Art Wiki is a List of Authors available those who worked on the text before being incorporated in WikiMANNia.