Some sexual experiences are very hard to recreate from a distance because, you know... touching and breathing. While kink and BDSM certainly have a great deal of touch and breathing, they are also both fairly expansive in the variety of things that can be done, and energies around activities that can be created. When we talk about the power dynamics that are often part of this type of play, the psychological shift can continue to lend itself very well to playing from a distance.