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It's all kind of slippery. If you've acquired a contact who really really wants something broken, who is going to find someone or something to break it, is going to break it himself anyway, maybe even in a more dangerously uncontrolled way than you've thought of - I think short of killing one another, we should have the right to our bodies to that extent. Not that I personally am signing up. People bust each other up in the pursuit of trophies all the time, so fuck the notion that we need to be that much more responsible because orgasms might happen.
Actually that's a good point, if someone is consensually begging someone else to do something pretty fucking painful, how is it not sadism to deliver that experience and enjoy it as well? I don't think sadism HAS to be linked to dominance or control.
Ooh, and I wonder if we launch into apotemnophilia and cast fetishes and the like here.
No doubt it'll be a pretend cigar from the Pretend Board.
You people would shit if a real sadist came along.
Speaking only for me - it depends. If we are talking about someone who really sees the pain as pleasurable... not really. I enjoy playing with masochists when i find them because I can go so much further, and I do not have to hold back near as much. Until it crosses over the threshold its not near as exciting though.
Its like using the pleasure example from earlier, if you have someone who truly enjoys the pain they are enjoying it. I can use that to exhaust and be cruel or to overstimulate and be cruel and I can get a rush for it. But it is not the same.
Pardon the typos, on my mobile.
It's all kind of slippery. If you've acquired a contact who really really wants something broken, who is going to find someone or something to break it, is going to break it himself anyway, maybe even in a more dangerously uncontrolled way than you've thought of - I think short of killing one another, we should have the right to our bodies to that extent. Not that I personally am signing up. People bust each other up in the pursuit of trophies all the time, so fuck the notion that we need to be that much more responsible because orgasms might happen.
Actually that's a good point, if someone is consensually begging someone else to do something pretty fucking painful, how is it not sadism to deliver that experience and enjoy it as well? I don't think sadism HAS to be linked to dominance or control.
Okay really interesting. So that then raises the question of what is a masochist. I've assumed over the last few weeks that I might be masochsitic, but now you've got me questioning if that's really accurate.
I don't ENJOY pain. I don't get my kicks out of being hurt. But I feel like consenting to allow someone to hurt me satisfies my need to be submissive, to hand over control. And I find, when it's over, I gain immense enjoyment from the satisfaction of enduring it.
So... I guess I crave pain, but I don't enjoy it... As in... I don't think I could orgasm through that treatment...
I've never really experienced the kind of pain my mind has had me fantasising about before, but I do know on a milder scale (spanking etc) I have become mildly upset/distressed. If one were working on stereotypes, would that make me a rubbish masochist?
To me, this is why this discussion is never productive. Everyone wants to overlay clinical and sociopathic sadism onto "I get off seeing people go through the pain experience. And I don't just mean the ow so good pain experience." So either you have to be a full blown serial killer or you're just expected to deliver up your bottom's funsies, and it winds up pretty stupid. I feel you on this one.
This, by the way, encapsulates a great deal of how I feel about this conversation.
So how is your scheme different from enabling or being a patsy? It aint. Adding manure to my garden aint the same as schizophrenics playing in shit.
*sighs*
I really don't get why this is so difficult to understand for people that sadism is a personality trait independent from other personality traits.
No, a sadist doesn't have to stop. He is still a sadist if he doesn't stop.
A gay doesn't have to use a condom with the hustler down the block. He is gay, no matter whether he fucks thirty guys bareback on the floor of the shadiest bar in town or is a "smart gay". He is even gay when he has HIV, knows about it and fucks bareback with the next guy. He is imho also a criminal in that case but that doesn't make him less "true gay".
Trying to understand sadism by limiting it to BDSM is as futile as trying to understand homosexuality by limiting it to monogamous relationships. Because the first thing you need to understand is that there is no correlation between these things. They are frameworks for activities. They don't define what is going on in your head.
And this is part of the confusion here. People mix up sadism as personality trait and sadism as activity within the BDSM context. You cannot discuss the personality trait within the BDSM context, this doesn't make sense and leads to nonsense (sorry) like "Is a true BDSM sadist selfish?"
IOW I agree with this, completely, other than the fact that I think there's probably some overbleed, but not much. So when I'm talking about a sadist in a BDSM context it's a different bend to the language than talking about clinical sadism and puppy kicking. I know it hurts everyone's head but there are a few times in the English language where one word means two things.
Ooh, and I wonder if we launch into apotemnophilia and cast fetishes and the like here.
Okay really interesting. So that then raises the question of what is a masochist. I've assumed over the last few weeks that I might be masochsitic, but now you've got me questioning if that's really accurate.
I don't ENJOY pain. I don't get my kicks out of being hurt. But I feel like consenting to allow someone to hurt me satisfies my need to be submissive, to hand over control. And I find, when it's over, I gain immense enjoyment from the satisfaction of enduring it.
So... I guess I crave pain, but I don't enjoy it... As in... I don't think I could orgasm through that treatment...
I've never really experienced the kind of pain my mind has had me fantasising about before, but I do know on a milder scale (spanking etc) I have become mildly upset/distressed. If one were working on stereotypes, would that make me a rubbish masochist?
Because patsy/enabler/sadist can all run concurrently, unless you worship violence as some kind of superpower or woo. Famous boogeyman and woman sadists of the schizophrenics playing in shit variety aren't generally society's large and in charge.
Answer: it's not any different. Who the fuck cares? If someone makes you a deep fried snickers for free and you stuff it in your face are you being less of a glutton than if you get one at the state fair? Since when do secondary traits that stereotypically run concurrent define the trait that's being discussed? They don't.
Just like my definition of sadist is pretty broad, so too is my personal definition of masochist. To me, someone who is a masochist gains some sort of fulfillment through pain. If you seek it out to get off somehow, yet still don't like it during the act, I'd say that's still masochistic.
In the end though, only you get to decide if you identify as a masochist or not, regardless of anyone else's definition.
I become distressed through some of our play, but I enjoy being distressed like that. Not specifically in the moment, but as an overall experience. That's what makes me a masochist.
It doesn't make me orgasm, but it is mighty exciting for me and certainly helps.
Actually I think the best way to determine whether or not you should identify as masochistic or not is if it finds you the right partners to be compatible with you. Words are just ways of communicating a concept. If masochist communicates well enough to someone at the start what you're into, then it's an appropriate word. Of course not every masochist responds the same, but not every person who identifies as an athlete plays that out in the same ways either.
I have had dreams of being share... dominated... humiliated and what a woman tastes like..
Really would find either one or more people interested in taking my body while it's at its prime.