I love how language interacts with life. I hear so much from friends about their preferences for terms. Some people hate top and bottom because they feel descriptive of nothing. Some people hate dom and sub because they don't catch the dynamic well enough. Some people like top and bottom because they don't like dom and sub. Some people don't like SM because the pleasure and/or sensation doesn't seem to made explicit by those terms.

The thing that interests me about it is that from person to person the reasons are so different. And it helps me understand others' kink in a deeper way.

So I'm interested to hear more opinions about it. And if you've had to make up your own words, and what they are, and why they fit.