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The international BDSM community has been placing special emphasis on the fact that practices should be SSC, that is, Safe, Sane, and Consensual, a term coined in 1983 by David Stein. Its ideologue defined it as follows:

BDSM relationships should follow a safe, sane, and consensual approach regarding their practices:

SAFE, in terms of the necessary knowledge about their development and the materials used, as well as the prevention of risks.

SANE, in terms of the reasonable decision-making capacity of the actors, unaltered by drugs or drinks, and in line with the experience of each participant, knowing how to differentiate between fantasy and reality.

CONSENSUAL, in that the participants agree on the form and intensity with which they are carried out, and equally that such agreement can be revoked at any moment.

However, what was initially a definition created to distinguish the field of consensual sadomasochism from that of mistreatment (about which American society maintained a severe prevention), was developing in some small groups models of intransigence very far from the initial purpose and methodology of its creators.

Since the 1990s, a new concept has emerged, RACK, which brings together a large number of activists around its definition. RACK is the acronym for Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, which is being translated in the Spanish-speaking community as assumed and consensual risk for alternative (or non-conventional) sexuality practices (RACSA). RACSA emphasizes the responsibility of participants in a BDSM activity, informed and consensual responsibility to evaluate and assume the risks of said activity.

More than a semantic or conceptual difference, RACSA supporters try to modernize a definition (that of SSC) that was conceived fundamentally to draw a dividing line with mistreatment or gender violence, but which its own promoters have had to recognize, time and time again, that its original purpose was being betrayed and prostituted by the intolerant, extremist, and unintelligent use by some marginal groups within the BDSM community.

Sadomasochism is a generic term that defines relationships in which the pain-pleasure binomial has great importance as a means of materializing power exchange relationships. Sadism, on the other hand, refers to the active practice of people who feel sexual pleasure in punishing another. Masochism would be the passive practice, that of people who experience sexual pleasure in suffering a certain intensity of pain. Research of certain scientific weight conducted in the last two decades leads to the idea that both tendencies coexist to a greater or lesser extent in every human being.