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androticus -> RE: difference? (5/22/2013 9:59:43 PM)
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Top refers to preferring to be sexually dominant, and with gay guys it also implies a guy who likes to fuck another guy.
Bottom is the opposite, preferring to be sexually submissive, and again, has connotations of wanting to get fucked.
Those can refer to roles in single sessions, or to overall orientations. For some people these are contextual, and depend on the other person -- someone can be predominantly a top, but sometimes like to bottom with some people. A person who really likes both is called "versatile" (in the gay community) or (more common in the straight community) "switch".
Dom/Sub get more into the broader realm of domination and submission. For example, a lot of gay guys talk in "Top/Bottom" language but they aren't really referring to a wider array of things like bondage, S&M, etc.
At least in my experience of what people mean, Dom/Sub tends to be more narrowly related to sexual enjoyment. For example, I had a roommate who was a Dom and he had several Sub female partners, and they would engage in BDSM sex, but outside that, they just had a very "vanilla" type of relationship with each other.
Master/Slave is the more overarching kind of relationship of dominance and submissive, that typically extends far beyond just sexual sessions, into everyday activities and life, involving a much more pervasive degree of control, orders, restrictions, and so on.
"Daddy" is a fetish term for there being a paternalistic type of component to the relation, wherein the sub would refer to the Daddy as if that person were a parent, and might involve parental-style discipline, etc.
"Sir" is more of a term of reference for a Dom or a Master, ex. "My Sir let me do X last night!" So a Sir could refer to a Dom or Master.
Hope this helped, and of course these are broad terms with many contexts of use and varying interpretations, so my defs have to be taken with a grain of salt...
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