She who speaks only when not spoken to. Psychological Surrender. Is Sadomasochism a mental pathology?
From Kraft-Ebing to Carl Jung, through years of research on the ground, Dorothy Hayden express her conclusion about masochism. The proposal for a new Psychological approach to BDSM. By Dorothy C. Hayden, CSW.
Spanking Your Lover Improves Intimacy? Finally, Sadomasochism Gets Its Own Science Study. Spanking, flagellation and cockbinding; researchers at the University of Northern Illinois have been very naughty in their attempt to quantify physiological responses to sadomasochistic activities.
In their Archives of Sexual Behavior publication, the stress hormone cortisol along with the dominance associated testosterone hormone was measured in 58 sadomasochistic practicing couples before and after kinky sex fun time. Their results, along with a review of S&M literature suggests couples that practice S&M experience reduced levels of stress and feel an increase in relationship closeness. In order to measure hormone levels, the Illinois researchers collected saliva samples from S&M party goers. Although most of us are a bit shy in regards to sharing our personal sex life, the S&M community was apparently quite eager to help. In fact, participants were so eager to take part, that the researchers ended up with an incomplete data set: