{ "model": { "rank": 5392, "code": "thing-q190845", "model_id": "vr.tr.bdsm", "name": "BDSM", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe BDSM activities and arrangements, assess what is agreed or unresolved, and determine which actions participants have authorised.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q190845/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "urethral toys", "sex slave", "algolagnia", "roshutsu" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q190845", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190845", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:16:41Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0883d-aa9e-7c10-b301-406ef4c620c7\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns BDSM as an umbrella for activities and arrangements involving bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, or sadism and masochism, with particular attention to participant meanings, negotiated authority, consent and changing boundaries; it distinguishes consensual BDSM from coercion without assuming that a BDSM label establishes consent.", "in_scope": [ "Competing participant and research definitions of BDSM and their criteria for inclusion", "Specific activities, encounters and continuing arrangements identified as BDSM", "Negotiation, consent, limits, withdrawal and the practical ability to stop", "Agreed power roles and the scope of delegated authority", "Activity-specific constraints, participant responses and follow-up" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Sexuality and sexual orientation generally", "Clinical diagnosis or treatment of sexual interests or mental health conditions", "Abuse and coercive control as independent phenomena, while retaining 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rather than stereotypes attached to BDSM.", "Compare proposed activities with each participant's current permissions, limits and prerequisites.", "Identify missing negotiation details or conflicting accounts that prevent treating an activity as authorised.", "Represent changes to roles, authority and boundaries without carrying earlier permission forward automatically.", "Support pausing or ending an encounter when consent is withdrawn or communication becomes unresolved.", "Record participant-specific follow-up needs and revise future agreements without rewriting what was agreed previously." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-membership", "name": "Meaning and membership", "description": "Establish which sense of BDSM is being used and why an activity or arrangement belongs under it.", "rationale": "BDSM is an umbrella whose practical boundaries cannot be inferred from a single behaviour or a single settled definition.", "layers": [ { "id": 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"Distinguish interests, proposals and prior experience from current permission.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-with-conditions", "name": "Permission with conditions", "description": "Record what each participant has agreed to, under which conditions, and what remains excluded or unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What has each participant explicitly agreed to for this encounter, and which activities remain declined, conditional or undecided?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-with-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What supports treating the agreement as voluntary and informed, and what uncertainties remain about the ability to give or refuse consent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permission-with-conditions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "withdrawal-and-communication", "name": "Withdrawal and communication", "description": "Track how agreement can change and whether stopping remains practically possible.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-withdrawal", "name": "Usable withdrawal", "description": "Represent agreed stop signals, ordinary communication and uncertainty without treating silence or role-consistent behaviour as permission.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can each participant communicate pause or withdrawal if speech or movement is constrained?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-withdrawal-q01" }, { "text": "What response is required when a stop signal occurs, communication fails or consent becomes unclear?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-withdrawal-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "roles-and-delegated-authority", "name": "Roles and delegated authority", "description": "Describe who performs activities and who may make which decisions within an agreement.", "rationale": "BDSM can involve negotiated asymmetry, but role names alone do not identify decision rights or their limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "role-interpretation", "name": "Role interpretation", "description": "Separate participant identity, encounter roles and activity performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "roles-without-assumed-permissions", "name": "Roles without assumed permissions", "description": "Record participants' own role meanings without equating performing an activity with holding authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do terms such as dominant, submissive, top, bottom or switch mean to these participants in this instance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "roles-without-assumed-permissions-q01" }, { "text": "Which roles describe activity performance, which describe decision authority, and which are identities extending beyond this encounter?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "roles-without-assumed-permissions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-limits", "name": "Authority limits", "description": "Bound delegated decisions by subject, context, duration and revocability.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-power-exchange", "name": "Bounded power exchange", "description": "Record the exact scope of agreed authority, including continuing arrangements, without interpreting broad 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"findings": [ { "id": "readiness-for-the-proposal", "name": "Readiness for the proposal", "description": "Record dependencies and unresolved concerns specific to restraint, sensation, power exchange or other proposed components.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which participant, setting, communication or equipment conditions must be satisfied before this particular activity is authorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "readiness-for-the-proposal-q01" }, { "text": "Which uncertainties require changing, deferring or declining the proposed activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "readiness-for-the-proposal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intensity-and-observed-response", "name": "Intensity and observed response", "description": "Keep intended sensations, participant reports and observed concerns distinct.", "findings": [ { "id": "participant-relative-intensity", "name": "Participant-relative intensity", "description": "Represent intensity through an explicitly agreed reporting method rather than assuming 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a BDSM from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a BDSM passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a BDSM between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a BDSM, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a BDSM is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a BDSM proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a BDSM, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a BDSM and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a BDSM consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a BDSM takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What BDSM is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of BDSM are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is BDSM operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of BDSM and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of BDSM?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as BDSM?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a BDSM came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a BDSM and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a BDSM is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a BDSM, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a BDSM, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a BDSM is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }