BDSM people and multiple or poly relationships

I’ve taken the data referred to here from the responses of the  210 people who responded to my BDSM ownership and symbology survey, done through surveymonkey.

However, my earlier “BDSM styles and relationships” survey had a question on this as well – I’ll add data from the much larger response to that survey to this blog when I have time.

I’d prefer to talk about this data as relating to multiple, rather than polyamorous or “poly” relationships, because I’d define the latter as transparent to all and mostly with respect and affection between all parties. There was no way of knowing whether this was the case or not for most  of the answers.

So, in the BDSM ownership and symbols survey we asked people to choose from six options that defined their relationships. Here are the responses, charted and as a table.

It’s important to point out that only 42 S/m people 114 D/s respondents and 48 who said they were M/s answered the question.

Those who said their BDSM component was S/m were much more likely to be single (36%) than the other two groups.

M/s people (67%) and D/s people (54%) were more likely to be in a monogamous relationship. A third of S/m people were in more than one relationship. This was slightly higher than both the other groups, where 28% (D/s) and 27% (M/s) had more than one partner.

Related articles

• BDSM Ownership and Symbols Survey – are you owned? (belasarius.com)
• Attitudes to ownership symbols; what dominants and submissives say. (belasarius.com)
• Symbols of ownership – sadists and masochists view (belasarius.com)
• Collar wearing, what do submissives do? (belasarius.com)
• Masters and slaves: attitudes to BDSM symbols of ownership. (belasarius.com)
• Collars, and other symbols of BDSM ownership. (belasarius.com)

Author: Belasarius

I possess the submission of curvy_bottom, we have a medium protocol, D/s relationship - based on the feeling that we are equa and opposite and that we love each other. View all posts by Belasarius