SafeHaven
The Kink Archetypes

All 35 archetypes, explained.

An archetype isn’t a label you pick for yourself — it’s a role or dynamic that Bearings, SafeHaven’s free kink & BDSM personality test, measures you against directly. Most people score meaningfully on several archetypes at once (a Switch who’s also a Rigger, a Submissive who’s also Praise-Motivated), because real kink identity is rarely just one thing.

Bearings scores you on every archetype below — not just the ones you expect — using items written to avoid the usual trap of forcing dominance and submission onto a single sliding scale. Browse the archetypes here to get a feel for the map, or skip straight to the test and see where you land.

Which one are you?

Bearings takes a few minutes, needs no login, and scores you across every archetype on this page — not just one.