Aswad
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Konbanwa, Sakura-shi. As for Japanese and BDSM, Looking at sociolects and mastering the differences between female Japanese and male Japanese may go a long way toward what is sought. Gender roles and enunciation may change in such a context. Many other nuances of language may be employed for such a purpose. For instance, distal and humble language may be more appropriate to a submissive person addressing a dominant, while proximal and imperative language may be more appropriate the other way around. Additionally, it may be the case that othering is appropriate in such a context, with the dominant party using words like "anta", and the submissive party refraining from using any form of othering at all, speaking entirely in an uchi-centric mode, or entirely in an othering mode but without self-reference. Imperatives and harsher forms are presumably useful. Should good information on this be found, it would be appreciated. Arigato gozaimashita.
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