10, 11, 12, 13 Ever since, the BDSM community is subjected to misconceptions and stigmatization.
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7, 8, 9 These historical views still have an impact on the most prominent contemporary psychiatric classification systems, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 10th edition: ICD-10) on one hand the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5th edition DSM-5) on the other. The perception of BDSM as being pathologic influenced scientific articles from the 1970s and 1980s, which tended to focus on (non-consensual) sexual sadism from a forensic perspective and incidental SM-related fatalities. These views were later reflected in Freud’s 6 theories on sexuality. 1, 2, 3 Historically, these practices and interests have been pathologized (for review, see reference 4) Krafft-Ebing 5 pioneered in classifying sadism and masochism as pathologies in his Psychopathia Sexualis, a reference work of 19th century sexology.
BDSM, previously known as sadomasochism (or SM), is an overarching abbreviation of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism and refers to a physical, psychological, and sexual role-play involving power exchange between consensual participants.