What is Female submission?
[[File:Jef_Kratochvil_und_nude_woman.jpg|thumb|226x226px|Artistic portrayal of a male dominant embracing a nude female submissive.]] Certain women will [[BDSM|submit]] to their partner. In this case the woman will allow her partner to use her body for his [[Sexual stimulation|sexual pleasure]]. Very often, the activity is associated with [[BDSM]], the S in BDSM can stand for submission. This practice is known as '''female submission''' or '''femsub'''. The submission is [[Consent|consensual]], the woman wants to submit, and also gets sexual pleasure from doing so. Usually, submission requires a degree of [[Trust (social science)|trust]]. The partner the woman submits to (called 'dominant') is a man, most of the time. There are setups where there may be more than one dominant partner. The woman may also get emotional gratification from submitting and giving control to her trusted partner. A 1985 study suggested that about three out of ten people taking part in BDSM activities were women.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Breslow|first1=Norman|last2=Evans|first2=Linda|last3=Langley|first3=Jill|year=1985|title=On the prevalence and roles of females in the sadomasochistic subculture: Report of an empirical study|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_archives-of-sexual-behavior_1985-08_14_4/page/303|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=14|issue=4|pages=303–17|doi=10.1007/BF01550846|pmid=4051718|s2cid=31730499}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Levitt|first1=Eugene E.|last2=Moser|first2=Charles|last3=Jamison|first3=Karen V.|year=1994|title=The prevalence and some attributes of females in the sadomasochistic subculture: A second report|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_archives-of-sexual-behavior_1994-08_23_4/page/465|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=23|issue=4|pages=465–73|doi=10.1007/BF01541410|pmid=7993186|s2cid=28743901}}</ref> A 2015 study indicates that 61.7% of females who are active in BDSM preferred a submissive role, 25.7% consider themselves a switch (they take both roles), while 12.6% prefer the domina