topping from the bottom definition
topping from the bottom which means that the submissive has the power and the ability to stop a play at any time, not the dominant. This is a popular sentiment in BDSM academic research (Rivoli, 2015; Zussman and Pierce, 1998, Jackson, 2016). I am challenging this sentiment, as based on my findings, BDSM practitioners are often not happy with this idea. On one hand it is a paradoxical sentiment, the point of a D/s dynamic is the giving up of power. But the more important finding concerns the idea of consent and sexual agency.