Male dominance, or maledom, refers to BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male. Practices of domination common to many BDSM and other various sexual relationships are also prevalent, such as various forms of body worship, cock and ball worship, ass worship, fellatio, foot worship; tease and denial; corporal punishment including spanking, breast torture,

caning Caning is a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits (known as "strokes" or "cuts") with a single Stick-fighting, cane usually made of rattan, generally applied to the offender's bare or clothed buttocks (see spanking) or ha ...

, whipping;

orgasm denial Erotic sexual denial is the practice of refraining from sexual experiences in order to increase erotic arousal and/or tension. The prohibited experience can be narrowly or broadly defined and banned for a specific or indeterminate length of ti ...

; and as well as verbal humiliation, face slapping, hair pulling, dripping hot wax on the genitals, spitting, golden showers, "forced" chastity, and irrumatio. A 1995 study indicated that 71% of heterosexual males preferred a dominant-initiator role, but a more recent study from 2015 indicates that only 29.5% of men who are active in BDSM express a preference for a dominant role, 24% consider themselves to be switches and 46.6% of men prefer the submissive role.

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Maledom scenarios are common in BDSM fiction, including works such as the ''

Story of O ''Story of O'' (french: Histoire d'O, link=no, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Desclos did not reveal herself as the autho ...

'' and the works of John Norman and Adrian Hunter. Maledom is a growing adult film genre. Maledom fiction began with the works of the

Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well as numerous accusat ...

who wrote about sexual scenarios in which men tortured others, primarily women. The term '' sadism'' is derived from de Sade's name. Since then, the lifestyle around male dominance has grown into a large part of the BDSM scene. The ''Fifty Shades'' novel series by

E. L. James Erika Mitchell (born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling erotic romance trilogy ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', ''Fifty Shades Darker'', and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', along with the companio ...

are some of the most widely read BDSM-themed novels of our time. Other works include: *John Warren, ''The Loving Dominant'', Greenery Press, 2001, *Jack Rinella, ''The Master's Manual: Handbook of Erotic Dominance'', Daedalus Publishing, 1997,

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