Hey, new guy here, I am befuddled, I see that there is a S & M block and a BDSM block.  Are these the same?  Or does the S & M mean something else I am not familiar with.

Thanks
Timmy

or the inflicting or receiving of pain such as from whipping, pinching, bitiing (hopefully without any blood drawn), etc.

B&D is bondage and discipline which involves physically tying up one party (the sub) with cuffs, ropes, chains, etc.  Discipline could mean ordering one around in an abusinve manner to debase the sub.  There can be all kinds of ways to do that from ordering a person on the ground and act like a dog, to ordering them to lick the floor (or maybe worship some part of their body.)  Any of the above could also involve sexual stimulation (Which purists abhor.), or be totally asexual.

Some people are into one and not the other, but often they are into both as they involve actiivities that can often intersect. For example, a person can be bound so tightly that it is painful.

They all come under the heading of fetish play which can also involve other things like role play (teacher/student; doctor/patient, etc.) or my favorite, sploshing (covering the body with gooey or creamy food substances and licking them off while rubbing against each other.)

There are many others, of course, which run the gamut from the disgusting (IMHO) such as scat play, to the ridiculously sublime (dressing up like fairies and imagining that you are in a magical {typically asexual} wonderland).

It's a big universe out there, limited only by the imaginnation and the endurance of the body.

A Sado Masichism provider that does taxes??

Yes, they both mean pretty much the same thing but I wouldn't put much stock in it when viewing a provider's profile. I have no idea where they even come up with this information and have never found anyone else with a satisfactory explanation. Some providers that I have talked to have been as clueless  as I am because it was checked on their profiles and they said they were most definitely NOT into it.

sets the providers profile. If he did something he thought was S&M then he probably checked it off.
He may have been clueless or just checked it by mistake. Problem reports can be used to change it. If a provider doesn't know how it got there she should do a problem report (or "contact us") and get it changed. I can't imagine she would want a client expecting S&M only to find it's not on the menu.

asking her if she did "BBM?"  Well, we spent more than a little while trying to figure out what the "M" stood for, both of us thinking "BB" meant bareback.  As some may have already surmised, we both had a pretty good chuckle upon finding out that he meant, "BlackBerry messenger."

I'll go with the clueless option. I've heard that this gets set by the first review but I've read a lot of those first reviews and don't recall ever seeing anything remotely resembling S&M in any of them.