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I BDSM is bondage, but I don't know what the specific letters mean. Just like "SOS", most people know what it means but don't know whether or not the letters symbolize specific words (they don't.)

Isn't SOS stand for "Save Our Ship." So how can't they specify words?

SOS does not mean "Save Our Ship." At least according to "Mail Call" and however many other shows I've watched. SOS means ship in distress, but not in an acronym since those don't match the letters in "SOS."

Well, if you think about it "Save our SHip" means "Ship in distress, so help us." i remember i read something on WWII subs vets and they use to use the SOS when they were in trouble and needed help because their ship was either broken or sunk.

SOS is just an international acronym for help. It might have originated during the war or something, but I don't think it is an actual abbreviation for anything. I mean, people use it when they aren't on ships, so why would that make sense?

Save Our Souls!!

I still don't know what BDSM stands for. Come on! Enlighten me!!

HERE IS THE BEST DEFINITION I COULD FIND - ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF...

All right, so what is "BDSM"?

"BDSM" is an acronym of "B&D" (Bondage & Discipline), "D&S" (Dominance & Submission), and "S&M" (sadomasochism). "BDSM" refers to any or all of these things, and a lot of stuff besides.

Tying up your lover is BDSM; so is flogging that person, or bossing that person around, or any of a thousand other things. BDSM is highly erotic, usually (though not always) involves sex or sexual tension; and is highly psychologically charged. One person (the "submissive") agrees to submit to another person (the "dominant"); or, alternately, one person agrees to receive some sort of sensation, such as spanking, from another.

Some people like to be submissive all the time, some people like to be dominant all the time; some people like to switch, being submissive one day and dominant the next.

Many people practice some element of BDSM in their sexual lives without even necessarily being aware of it. They may think of "S&M" as "That sick stuff that people do with whips and cattle prods and stuff," yet still blindfold one another from time to time, or tie one another down and break out the whipped cream...

All of these things are "BDSM." BDSM is not necessarily hardcore sadomasochism; it can be remarkably subtle and sensual and soft. Pinning your partner to the bed and running silk or ice cubes or rabbit fur over your lover's body qualifies as "BDSM" (specifically, of a variety called "sensation play").