Reverence is the attitude of deep respect and careful attention that underwrites acts of Body Worship, Object Devotion and related practices. It is expressed through pace, gesture, tone and quality of attention as much as through any specific action.

The vocabulary of Reverence is drawn from long devotional and courtly traditions and has been adopted within modern BDSM and Leather practice to name the interior register of worship.

Reverence is a personal disposition as well as a shared aesthetic. Communities generally treat it as cultivated rather than performed.