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	TSR : O&P Wiki : Dominant: history This article is part of the O&P Wiki hosted by The Slave Register This is the version from 27 May 07, 1:18 AM. The full history of this article will show any more recent versions. Dominant A person who prefers to be superior in a D/s relationship, being obeyed, served, and pleased by their submissive partner. Dominant is the broadest term in the dominant / master / owner orientation. All masters or mistresses are dominants and all who describe themselves as owning property are dominants but not all dominants are masters / mistresses or owners of property. Self-describing as a dominant does not necessarily mean that the person already has a submissive. Instead, dominant describes a preference for taking the dominant role in a relationship or in a BDSM scene and operates as a type of self-description or self-advertisement. The everyday definition of the word "dominant" is: "commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others" (Merriam-Webster). The BDSM and Ownership definitions of dominant differs from the everyday definition of dominant in the following ways: Dominant in BDSM and the Ownership Subculture is commonly used as a noun and this is a correct usage within this subculture. The word dominant in the BDSM world is considerably more varied than the ordinary use of the word. Dominant in the everyday sense is an adjective describing a fixed personality feature exhibited in all interactions with others. In the vanilla world "dominant" commonly refers to a set of traits that is manifested whenever the person interacts with anyone. Within BDSM the word "dominant" refers only to that person's relationship to their own submissives or potential submissives they wish to form a relationship with. In other words, it is possible for people who do not display dominance in the vanilla world to describe themselves as dominant when referring to their relationship with a submissive or when describing themselves in the BDSM world. Differences between dominants and owners Within much of the Ownership Subculture, dominant is used in contrast to the term master or owner, mainly due to the connotations of the corresponding terms submissive and slave. See also Master Property Submissive This article is published under the terms of the GFDL. People with profiles on The Slave Register can improve this article: see the O&P Wiki help page for details.