The BDSM and Money Survey

I ran a survey on BDSM people’s spending on their “hobby”. I collected responses between December 2013 and March 2015. 476 people took part, mainly recruited through BDSM websites, including fetlife, strangely normal and fetbook.

BDSM and Money – articles

• BDSM and Money – first results
• I’d rather have a pizza with my kids in Ibiza – priorities for spending
• BDSM as a spending priority – Female Tops or Dominants rate it as more important
• Tattoos and piercings – who has spent money on them
• What people said their income was
• What we spend on what we wear – US vs UK
• What we spend on what we wear – Dominants, Submissives and switches
• What Pro-Dom/mes said about their spending
• What we spend on BDSM toys – is bondage more popular than impact play?

Who took part?

Of the 476 people who took part:

• 67% came from the UK, 27% from the USA and 6% from elsewhere
• 53% were female, 43% male and 5% expressed another preference
• 64% said they were heterosexual, 6% said they were homosexual and 31% said they were bisexual.

What kind of BDSMer?

When it came to BDSM, participants said they were:

• 33% Tops/dominants, 46% bottoms/submissives and 21% switches
• 21% Sadists/masochists, 63% Dominants/submissives and 16% Masters/slaves

The surveys

Please note that these surveys don’t have properly constructed samples – they are drawn entirely from people who see my posts on BDSM websites and choose to take part – all one can say is that they represent the views of the respondents themselves and not the BDSM community as a whole.