Domestic Partnership: Legal Recognition, Rights, and Relationships
Domestic partnership is a committed relationship that may provide registered partners with selected legal rights, responsibilities, or employment benefits.
Dominance and Submission: Meaning, Definition, Grammar, and Examples
Dominance and submission is a consensual relationship dynamic in which partners voluntarily exchange authority through trust, communication, and consent. Explore its role in BDSM and human sexuality.
Dominant and Submissive: BDSM Roles and Power Exchange
Dominant and submissive describes complementary BDSM roles in which one person takes agreed authority and the other voluntarily yields it.
Dominant Partner: BDSM Authority, Boundaries, and Consent
Dominant partner describes someone who takes an agreed leadership or authority role in BDSM or greater influence within a relationship.
Dominant: BDSM Authority, Power Exchange, and Consent
Dominant describes a person who consensually takes an authority or leadership role in BDSM, power exchange, or an agreed intimate relationship.
Dominatrix: Meaning, BDSM Role, Professional Domination, and Consent
A dominatrix is a woman or feminine person who takes a dominant role in consensual BDSM, kink, role-play, or professional domination.
Donor Egg: IVF Process, Screening, Risks, and Parenthood
A donor egg is provided by one person for another person’s fertility treatment and may be fertilized through IVF before embryo transfer.
Donor Embryo: Transfer, Genetics, Consent, and Parenthood
A donor embryo is an IVF-created embryo provided for another person’s reproductive use and may allow pregnancy without a genetic link to the intended parent.
Donor Sperm: Use, Screening, Identity, and Family Building
Donor sperm is sperm provided for another person’s reproductive use and may be used in IUI, IVF, donor conception, and diverse family-building arrangements.
Double Date: Meaning, Examples, and Dating Etiquette
A double date is a social outing involving two couples or two romantic pairs. It may make dating more relaxed, social, and comfortable.