{{Short description|Sexual activities with male submissive partner}} {{Unreliable sources|date=July 2025}} [[File:ErosPyramide20091024 352.jpg|thumb|A dominatrix and a male-sub at a sex show in Austria]] '''Male submission''' or '''malesub'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malesub |title=malesub |publisher=English Wiktionary |language=en |access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref> is a situation in BDSM and other sexual activities in which the submissive partner is male.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201206/dominant-or-submissive-paradox-power-in-sexual-relations |title=Dominant or Submissive? Paradox of Power in Sexual Relations |website=Psychology Today |language=en |access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref> A 2015 study indicates that 46.6% of men who are active in BDSM expressed a preference for a submissive role, 24% consider themselves to be switches and 29.5% prefer the dominant role.<ref>{{cite web |doi= |title=Through Pain, More Gain?: A Survey into the Psychosocial Benefits of Sadomasochism |year=2015 |last=Silva |first=Andrea Duarte |publisher=University of Oslo |volume= |issue= |page=41 |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/48652}}</ref>
Male submission in BDSM can take many different forms and include a variety of activities, including cock and ball torture, forced feminization, chastity, cuckoldry, erotic humiliation, facesitting, golden showers, pegging, foot fetishism, and clothed female, naked male.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/magnetic-partners/201412/sexually-dominant-women-and-the-men-who-desire-them-part-iii |title=Sexually Dominant Women and the Men Who Desire Them Part III |website=Psychology Today |language=en |access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201206/dominant-or-submissive-paradox-power-in-sexual-relations |title=Dominant or Submissive? Paradox of Power in Sexual Relations |website=Psychology Today |language=en |access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/31/a-beginners-guide-to-foot-fetish-some-foot-play-ideas-you-can-both-enjoy-6629006/ |title=A beginner's guide to foot fetish |date=2017-05-31 |work=Metro |access-date=2018-04-30 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
During the 18th century, some European brothels began specializing in restraint, and flagellation, as well as other activities which involved female domination and male submission.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201206/loving-introduction-bdsm |title=A Loving Introduction to BDSM |website=Psychology Today |language=en-US |access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref>
== See also == * Chastity belt (BDSM) * Dominance and submission * Erotic spanking * Female-led relationship * Female submission * Financial domination * Male dominance (BDSM)
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