Pain tolerance in Doms/tops/sadists

Bredon

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We discussed this in the Identity thread, and am really curious:

Doms/tops/sadists: How is your pain tolerance?
(for statistics: could you state if you're a guy/girl/other, please?)

I'm a complete sissy. Can't stand the slightest pain-- but love to inflict pain (in spite of/because?)

What do you think about the issue?

Bredon
PS: Neon, it's cheating when you answer here :D I was meaning the 150% "I could never bottom" people.
 
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Bredon said:
PS: Neon, it's cheating when you answer here :D I was meaning the 150% "I could never bottom" people.

But I am truly one of the most sadistic people I know... Truly!

OK, one point I will make about this (and you can spank me for it later ;) ) is that I think my own tolerance for extreme pain makes it very easy for me to push my sadism onto others with absolutely no guilt. I get such a rush when I can tell my partner does not enjoy the prospect of what I am about to do or the tool that I am going to use... The only thing that really keeps me going slowly is that I want the person I'm playing with to come back for more. :devil:

*bares and presents back for hard flogging*
 
I've got a very high pain tolerance, self-discipline, and stoicism level. In the course of my work I suffer injury and discomfort on a regular basis. I tend to feel as if this makes me more hardcore and generally more badass than the average man.

While I see myself as quite sadistic, I'm not so much interested in inflicting pain as humiliation. Exquisite tortures always seem a little bit beside the point to me. I'm simple and to the point-a beating on the ass with the strop, or a open hand up side the noggin, accomplish my ends.

In the end, I'm more interested in control. I've got a mean streak a mile wide, but physical pain isn't anything I'm that obsessed with.
 
Bredon said:
PS: Neon, it's cheating when you answer here :D I was meaning the 150% "I could never bottom" people.

well, here is one more thread I can't post on.......
 
I came into the BDSM scene as a "I'll never bottom person."

Largely because I've always been a pain pussy. As a kid I used to try and negotiate and reason with the people about to draw blood or give me a shot, in order to get out of it.

Pain in a scene context or a sexual context is a totally different animal, for me. And I liked the chance to feel like I was less of a wuss.
 
The sadist I spent the last year+ with had a HUGE pain tolerance. I wouldn't say he was a masochist, 'cause I don't think he got off on it like I do, but he could take anything without flinching.

for your statistics, he was male.

once he said to me "I'm a sadomasochist... that means I enjoy the pain in my knuckles from punching a guy in the face" - i thought it was sorta funny.
 
Pain tolerance...

I have a fairly high pain tolerance... the only time I can remember crying from pain was once in 8th grad when I got a kidney infection. :rolleyes: Since then I've been minding my cranberry juice... :p
 
Ok, you tough sadists out there-- come out of your hiding and confess-- are you all sissies?? ;)

Shankara--
well, here is one more thread I can't post on.......
... or you could cheat :D

Neon--
and you can spank me for it later
*bares and presents back for hard flogging*
Ummmm-- *pants* *blushes*
Ooookay--- I'll breath really deep n slow. I will go to bed-- I will *sleep* *working real hard on the controlled stoic dom image here**sweatdrop*
 
Bredon said:
Ok, you tough sadists out there-- come out of your hiding and confess-- are you all sissies?? ;)
I'm a sissy - thats why I can't answer your questions....
:kiss: :kiss: :kiss:
 
Shankara--

Ooohh, but I'm sure you can... *deceptively gentle smile*

Bredon
 
Pft.

I'm another cheater.

I used to think I was a major wimp. But I discovered something a long time ago.

Pain hurts.

Okay, that wasn't the most cogent explanation, and a lot of people are very disappointed in me for my lack of usual prosaic verbosity and technical exactitude. I shall attempt to elucidate.

Everything that hurts, hurts the same amount. Sprained ankle, sciatica, broken finger, pulled chest hair, clothespin on the nipple, baseball bat to the back of the head, line drive in the teeth, being on the receiving end of an ass kicking from a black belt, having a four inch laceration under my kneecap cleaned without novocaine, you name any kinky or nonkinky pain experience I've had, they're all the same. Different levels of violence to my person, sure, but pain only hurts so much (and it's a lot). Thing is, the headspace is different for the hard spanking with a paddle than bleeding for an hour in the emergency room before they start irrigating a bone deep tear with salt water. (Damn near screamed that hospital down. :D ) One will make me spring wood, sometimes.
 
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Bredon said:
Neon--

Ummmm-- *pants* *blushes*
Ooookay--- I'll breath really deep n slow. I will go to bed-- I will *sleep* *working real hard on the controlled stoic dom image here**sweatdrop*
The power is indeed with the bottom, LOL... Besides, sleep is overrated. ;) Waiting here with my :rose:
 
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Hmmm, F can block pain out if he is prepared but overall he does not like your everyday pain or pain of any kind. I do wonder though about how pain is handled by various people given women have 2 1/2 times more pain receptors. Does it mean male subs can often on average take more extreme pain play simply because it doesn't impact on the senses as much as in a female? How would the pain receptors be in terms of TG? It is fascinating and open to lots of varients as I have found myself during particular times, most especially emotional.

Catalina :catroar:
 
catalina_francisco said:
I do wonder though about how pain is handled by various people given women have 2 1/2 times more pain receptors.

Catalina :catroar:

i thought women had a higher pain tolerance in preperation for giving birth...

(just something i read somewhere, please correct me if im wrong)
 
myinnerslut said:
i thought women had a higher pain tolerance in preperation for giving birth...

(just something i read somewhere, please correct me if im wrong)


Some of us seem to, but scientifically speaking, women have 2 1/2 times more pain receptors to men. Maybe we just don't like to complain as much. :D

Catalina :catroar:
 
women have 2 1/2 times more pain receptors

That's a frightening thought, catalina!
I'll have an ask around how it is for transmen-- if pain receptor change with Testosterone-- never heard about it...

I'm really wondering about that one-- are pain receptors genetic, or are their formed by experience (like brain synapses)? Do men have more because they are subjected to more rough pain (beating and stuff) or what? What's with cultures where men are very peaceful and women more aggresive-- do they have different pain receptors? Very weird--

But what's even more weird-- none of our dear (cis) male doms in residence have answered so far... :D

Bredon
 
Bredon said:
Doms/tops/sadists: How is your pain tolerance?
(for statistics: could you state if you're a guy/girl/other, please?)
I'm a guy.

In school, I was slammed into the ground more times than I could possibly count by guys much bigger than I am and hellbent on ripping my head off, or at least breaking my arm. Whenever the O Line had a bad day, I paid the price for a long time afterward.

Sports taught me to accept physical pain as a necessary part of Doing What You Need to Do. It hurts, sure. So what? You keep going anyway.

As an adult who is very active in recreational athletics, my personal philosophy is: If it doesn't hurt by the end of your run, ride, or game, then you're not trying hard enough.

As an adult I have also used pain, achieved through very intense workouts, as a way to cope with stress or mental anguish. When dealing with extreme grief, physical pain keeps me from going out of my fucking mind.
 
catalina_francisco said:
Does it mean male subs can often on average take more extreme pain play simply because it doesn't impact on the senses as much as in a female? How would the pain receptors be in terms of TG? It is fascinating and open to lots of varients as I have found myself during particular times, most especially emotional.

Catalina :catroar:

IME no way!

I've met a number of the "you could beat me dead and I'd die with a smile" masos in my life, people with whom *I* have to decide when the scene ends and it's never enough...

one boy, ever that I've played with and maybe one or two in my social circles. The vast majority VAST majority are women, I'd say I've played with about four and know of about a dozen.
 
I am a male Dominant and will chime in on this threa.

I wrestled a couple of years in High School, and even tho I wasn't very good at it I still many years later carry the play with pain attitude.

I am for the most part fairly stoic when it comes to pain, unless its the kind of pain that signals dager...

I was injured at work about a year and a half ago... sprained My rotator cuff... that hurts like a BITCH, but the worst aspect of it was that I could not use My left arm much... it still gets sore sometimes...
 
catalina_francisco said:
Some of us seem to, but scientifically speaking, women have 2 1/2 times more pain receptors to men. Maybe we just don't like to complain as much. :D

Catalina :catroar:

We do??

WOW

I never knew that, but you can be assured I will find a way to use that information at some point :D

It does explain how he casually attached clover clamps to his own nipples, and carried on looking at other things for a few minutes before removing them. I was nearly sick thinking of how much that must hurt.

He never uses anything on me he has not used on himself, it leaves less wriggle room when I bitch about it hurting *sigh*
 
shy slave said:
We do??

WOW

I never knew that, but you can be assured I will find a way to use that information at some point :D

It does explain how he casually attached clover clamps to his own nipples, and carried on looking at other things for a few minutes before removing them. I was nearly sick thinking of how much that must hurt.

He never uses anything on me he has not used on himself, it leaves less wriggle room when I bitch about it hurting *sigh*

LOL, I do remember mumbling at the time I learned this valueable piece of information (on QI) something to the effect, 'Oh, so that is why some men are so insensitive'. :D

Catalina :catroar:
 
Netzach said:
IME no way!

I've met a number of the "you could beat me dead and I'd die with a smile" masos in my life, people with whom *I* have to decide when the scene ends and it's never enough...

one boy, ever that I've played with and maybe one or two in my social circles. The vast majority VAST majority are women, I'd say I've played with about four and know of about a dozen.

LOL, we are just tougher.

Catalina :catroar:
 
shy slave said:
We do??

WOW

I never knew that, but you can be assured I will find a way to use that information at some point :D

It does explain how he casually attached clover clamps to his own nipples, and carried on looking at other things for a few minutes before removing them. I was nearly sick thinking of how much that must hurt.

He never uses anything on me he has not used on himself, it leaves less wriggle room when I bitch about it hurting *sigh*


LOL I've always done that. If I have some pansy-butt boy complaining about clothespins, I'll deploy a moment of bored nudity by putting one on a tit and telling him to stifle it.
 
Netzach said:
LOL I've always done that. If I have some pansy-butt boy complaining about clothespins, I'll deploy a moment of bored nudity by putting one on a tit and telling him to stifle it.

*faints* at the thought of doing that
 
Netzach said:
LOL I've always done that. If I have some pansy-butt boy complaining about clothespins, I'll deploy a moment of bored nudity by putting one on a tit and telling him to stifle it.

I have a love/hate relationship with Doms & Dommes who get the last word through actions *sigh*

Lol
 
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