BDSM Guide

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BDSM Scene

It basically means a BDSM session. As a rule - an episodic act that is limited in time. The individual BDSM scene can be extremely short - few seconds or longer - a few minutes, but usually lasts about an hour or few, and in rare occasions it can last several days. It can be an act of domination, for example - obedience training on submissive or imposing domestic discipline using spanking or sadomasochistic play with leather bondage and torture.

In a broader sense, a BDSM scene is the place where the actions take place, the organization of the space, or the circumstances in which the session takes place. This can be a random place, for example, a staircase and even an elevator stopped between floors, a public space like a street or a park, or just a park bench, an ordinary room in a house, or a space specially designed for BDSM play (see Dungeon).

The organization of the space would be perceived as part of the BDSM scene only if it is relevant to the actions being performed. This far not only applies to adapted locations with specialized BDSM equipment such as dungeons and others. If the action takes place in an ordinary living room and there is an armchair in it, on which one of the partners is tied or simply sitting, then this armchair is certainly an important or at least necessary detail of the scene. Conversely, if during the play participants did not even notice the armchair, then considering it as an element of the particular scene is devoid of meaning. It may have been part of the setting, but it had no essential bearing on what happened or how the action unfolded.

The same applies to the participants in the BDSM scene and the relationships between them. Primarily, these are the partners or people who interact directly but the scene itself can also include other people who have a bearing on its content or course. This can be the audience (at a public BDSM demonstration or performance), persons who are specially invited or present as voyeurs, and even accidental witnesses who may not understand the actual nature of what is happening, but whose presence has influenced the partners and their actions (e.g. passers-by on the street).

In its broadest possible sense, the term BDSM scene can also refer to the whole BDSM / fetish world - The Scene, or to the local BDSM community - The Local Scene.

When used in this sense, the term BDSM scene usually refers to the social features of the relevant community - holding fetish events, the presence of organized groups and interest groups, active participants and their number, the level of interaction between members, attitude towards newbies, and in general - the activity of this community.

When it is said that in a given country, region, city, or elsewhere BDSM scene is underdeveloped or absent, it does not mean that there are no fetishists or sadomasochists, but that they are not organized enough to form a community that you can join.
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