Category: D/s, Power Play
Subcategory: Body control

Exercise Requirements

Exercise Requirements involves a dominant setting and enforcing specific physical fitness activities for their submissive. This may include prescribed workout routines, fitness goals, activity tracking, scheduled exercise sessions, and accountability measures with potential rewards or consequences based on compliance.

This form of body control appeals as both a practical and symbolic extension of power exchange. Submissives often appreciate the structure, motivation, and accountability that helps them maintain physical health while deepening their submission through bodily discipline. Dominants typically enjoy guiding their partner's physical development, monitoring progress, and exercising control that produces visible results. The dynamic combines care-taking elements with control, creating a framework where submission is expressed through physical discipline and improvement.

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About the category D/s, Power Play

Dominance and submission (D/s) and power play revolve around the consensual exchange of control between partners. This dynamic can manifest in countless ways—from bedroom-only scenarios to comprehensive lifestyle arrangements—all centered on one partner taking a controlling role while the other yields authority within negotiated boundaries.

People are drawn to power exchange for diverse reasons: the freedom found in surrender, the thrill of exercising control, the deep trust required, and the opportunity to explore aspects of themselves not expressed in everyday life. Unlike physical BDSM activities which focus on bodily sensations, D/s emphasizes psychological connection and the erotic potential of power differentials, creating experiences that many find deeply fulfilling on both emotional and sexual levels.

About the subcategory Body control

Body control encompasses activities where one partner directs or restricts the physical actions, positions, or functions of another. This can include position training, movement restrictions, controlled breathing, directed exercise, or regulation of bodily functions like eating, drinking, or bathroom use within consensual boundaries.

People enjoy body control dynamics for the deep level of surrender and authority they create. For the controlled partner, having basic physical autonomy directed by another can create profound submission and mindfulness. For the controlling partner, the responsibility and power to guide another's physical experience offers intense dominance. Many find that externally imposed physical discipline creates a unique mental space where everyday concerns fade and power dynamics become vividly tangible.



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