# What the words mean

## dominance and submission

Short form: D/s

A dynamic where one person leads and another follows, by agreement, for an agreed time or as an ongoing arrangement.

Example: They have had a D/s dynamic for two years.

What it is not: Not the same as master and slave, which is its own dynamic.

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