Am I the only one who thinks BDSM needs a cooler name?

[Marquis]

you're adding letters.

 

[BlueSugar]

If the name is cool enough, we should never have to explain at all.

heh. first it has to catch on in the bdsm circles, and then the vanilla crowd ... though ... with the power of the internet.


I'll stick with bdsm, or bondage ... or saying something like Restraint (has mental or physical capabilities) or Deep Bondage/Restraint ... implying I go deeper with it.

And Sadomasochism is SUCH a badass word, even most vanilla people know who De Sade was even if they just know him as a dark minded kinky pervert.

If they manage to put 1 + 1 together
DeSade + sadomasochism they might have a clue and wont run so quickly.


I hate to play the little rain cloud... lol... and I do honestly like Boddissama and BáDŭSÄMï... but it would help if this one word not only encompassed what it is we are into but what it means. If BDSM has a hard enough time flourishing Badusami and Boddissama would have the same problem.

It would be fucking stellar to have one of these words flourish "mainstream" and have "us" be the cause though

 

[Leolover711]

bá' dŭ SÄ mï

I prefer the the first 'a' to sound more like eh, but that is just a personal preference. There is also a slight stress on the first syllable but the main stress is on the third syllable.

Hey, how the heck did you do that?

 

[Technodivinitas]

This thread is long...

and I have very limited time, but I thought I'd drop in and offer a suggestion.
Power Exchange. That's really what it's all about in the end, isn't it? And besides- it sounds cool, too.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I favor the term "calling the shots" lately. "Hey, Bobby...why don't you ask out that hot blonde with the bubble ass in Accounting?"

"I dunno man. She seems really pushy. I like to call the shots."



Or, if I want to be more explicit, "unfair sensuality"; which still has enough of a bath oils and candle light vibe to slip under the scary radar.

 

[Technodivinitas]

I favor the term "calling the shots" lately. "Hey, Bobby...why don't you ask out that hot blonde with the bubble ass in Accounting?"

"I dunno man. She seems really pushy. I like to call the shots."



Or, if I want to be more explicit, "unfair sensuality"; which still has enough of a bath oils and candle light vibe to slip under the scary radar.

And here I thought your favorite term was "sink fuck", Rosco!
(I've had such a crush on you since you explained that...)

 

[Xelebes]

you're adding letters.

No I'm not.

 

[h_i_s]

Ok .... on the topic of keeping the B-D-S-M .. in BDSM .... while making it easier for people to understand what BDSM is about .......

Maybe we need to ADD just one more letter .......... then switch them around a bit.

I think this should keep it on a simple note.


BvDSM = Because vanilla Doesn't Satisfy Much

 

[Xelebes]

We also might want to ask where the acronym "BDSM" came from and that is the internet. Ask yourself, how many do you know can speak in leetspeak or what "All Your Base" comes from?

 

[h_i_s]

We also might want to ask where the acronym "BDSM" came from and that is the internet. Ask yourself, how many do you know can speak in leetspeak or what "All Your Base" comes from?

uggggh ... i KNOW this one ... i read up on it.

"ALL Your Bases Belongs to Us" .... i think, if i recall correctly .... it was about a pc virus ..

i have a cute Ebay account name: ALLYourBidsBelongsToUs

 

[Betticus]

Cock & Ball Torture... check out the library for more info...

CBT is not mentioned, I noticed by the way,... which is fine by me cause I think that should be forbidden...

Damnit! I thought that one was complete breath control. WTF???

 

[Xelebes]

uggggh ... i KNOW this one ... i read up on it.

"ALL Your Bases Belongs to Us" .... i think, if i recall correctly .... it was about a pc virus ..

Nope. Not a pc virus.

 

[Betticus]

since you're all hiphop and such would you be happier if it were referred to as bidizzle or something along those lines?

I'm feelin' this one. Maybe we should run lit through the snoop dogg shizzolater and have it translated to snoopizzle!

 

[Betticus]

All your base are belong to us. Was a bad English translation from a Japanese anime that just caught on for some reason.

Like WOOT from streetracers coming up with a clicquish word for Wide Open Throttle. Some street slang.

 

[Marquis]

Actually I think it was from a poorly translated old video game.

 

[Xelebes]

All your base are belong to us. Was a bad English translation from a Japanese anime that just caught on for some reason.

You're also wrong. Not an anime.

 

[Xelebes]

Actually I think it was from a poorly translated old video game.

Ding ding ding.

A game for the ol' Sega named "Zero Wing" from 1987. In 1999, a webcomic on overclocked.org (now ocremix.org) decided to make fun of the bad translations with some wise SNK poetry and All Your Base was one of them. This caught on on SomethingAwful.com (a site just even more legendary than Literotica) and a electronic band named Laziest Men on Mars made a nerd techno/gabber remix of it using a Speak n Spell to do the words with the Zero Wing theme as the tune.

 

[Marquis]

Ding ding ding.

A game for the ol' Sega named "Zero Wing" from 1987. In 1999, a webcomic on overclocked.org (now ocremix.org) decided to make fun of the bad translations with some wise SNK poetry and All Your Base was one of them. This caught on on SomethingAwful.com (a site just even more legendary than Literotica) and a electronic band named Laziest Men on Mars made a nerd techno/gabber remix of it using a Speak n Spell to do the words with the Zero Wing theme as the tune.

But what of the creators?!

 

[Xelebes]

But what of the creators?!

What about SNK and Sega?

 

[Betticus]

There were video games in 1987?

 

[Marquis]

What about SNK and Sega?

No, the actual men behind this bizarre ocurrence. Surely they play an important role in this saga as well!

 

[Xelebes]

No, the actual men behind this bizarre ocurrence. Surely they play an important role in this saga as well!

They're just some Japanese dudes with bad English. I think it's the whole SNK translation office staff. You couldn't possibly name the dude who botched that one. There was a coverup and everything. Sam Fisher even went about to crack this one in Tom Clancy Splinter Cell 3.

 

[Leolover711]

They're just some Japanese dudes with bad English. I think it's the whole SNK translation office staff. You couldn't possibly name the dude who botched that one. There was a coverup and everything. Sam Fisher even went about to crack this one in Tom Clancy Splinter Cell 3.

Xel, how did you print the phonetic letters?

 

[h_i_s]

i'm just not convinced that it originated from a video game ... i may be wrong, but something in my memory isn't accepting of this as fact. shrugs

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf ... i like this though

 

[h_i_s]

We also might want to ask where the acronym "BDSM" came from and that is the internet. Ask yourself, how many do you know can speak in leetspeak or what "All Your Base" comes from?

i dislike when i can't recall info that i know i had known/read/heard of before. (Brain here is sometimes likened to that of my disorganized PC: "i know it's here, & must be stored on my hardrive ... SOMEWHERE!!! heh .. ). Thanks to you, this caused me to search google for source, rather than participate in other threads here this morning. lol

And your source/explaination IS correct.

Details provided at the link below, with outgoing links which offer even more extensive info ...

The phrase arose from a poor translation used in the English version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing, originally produced by Toaplan in 1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Your_Base_Are_Belong_To_Us

Thanks for the 'brush up' Xelebes.