degradation

📅 Updated:2025-02-16

🕒 Created:2015-04-15

🆔 ID:7508

Description

Purposefully damaging a person's self-respect, reputation, or personhood. Often delivered through dialog, dirty talk, and sometimes insults, but can also be non-verbal. Certain sex and BDSM styles emphasize gaining pleasure from degradation.

For a less extreme variant, see humiliation. As a rule of thumb: humiliation is "You are a stupid dipshit," degradation is "You are a subhuman degenerate."