Musicmystery
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery BDSM is a complex acronym derived from the terms bondage and discipline (B&D, B/D, or BD), dominance and submission (D&S, D/S, or DS), sadism and masochism (S&M, S/M, or SM). Your ethics (and nonsloppiness) as a poster would be higher in my eyes if this were not the exact first sentence, verbatim, of the Wikipedia article we were discussing. As already mentioned, the article has over 100 footnotes, but the sentence that says D/s is included has no source. I suppose it's not plagiarism if you wrote the article yourself. If only students and professionals were as fanatic about plagiarism as CM posters. Repeating a common definition hardly constitutes plagiarism. But since you brought it up, the Wikipedia article sites a web site, a web site with no attribution. My source is Reference.com. Note the first sentence. Aside from this is the silliness of debating "what is BDSM" or "well, to me..." statements. This makes the term subjective if not down right arbitrary, and ultimately, who cares? Do your thing and enjoy. Hope that helps.
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