ShaktiSama
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ORIGINAL: LunaVenus What are your feelings? Have you ever had a partner that could really blow your socks off? I mean REALLY, multiple orgasms for HOURS! Do you think that having that at your disposal constantly would preclude the desire for pain? Or is there another motve all together? I'll just echo the chorus: your assumptions that there is something "desperate" and "inferior" about the pleasure that a masochist takes in pain is both clueless and foolish. Masochism is just a rare but recurring difference in human neurological and emotional wiring. It goes back to the dawn of time, as near as I can tell. Ritual and sexual masochism is found in countless forms in countless human societies, and is often used as a path to the divine realms precisely because "subspace" is such an uplifting sensation. Others have already pointed out that your own sexual "wiring" is not universal; multi-orgasmic people of either sex are a great delight to play with, don't get me wrong, but they aren't all that common. Hyperactive sexuality may be a hot fantasy, but the reality for most people that non-stop sexual stimulus would be torturous and unpleasant, not "fun". Sexual ecstasy and stimulation, by the way, is also used a route to enlightenment, but it is FAR less commonly used than pain, cross-culturally speaking! From my point of view, the kind of masochist who generates powerful endorphins from the administration of pain are not a huge percentage of the population, but like multi-orgasmic people they are very blessed and fortunate individuals. They have a door that opens to trancendent ecstasy and can open any time they find the right partner. That's a wonderful thing. I would here hazard a guess that people who lose themselves truly rapturously in music, or those who can become literally addicted to adrenaline, might be somewhat the same. Everyone can touch on these experiences somewhat, but certain people seem to have more sensitivity, or a more profound response, or a greater hunger and capacity to endure the necessary rigors--? I am just guessing, however. The only mindstates that affect me this much are those resulting from exercise or sleep deprivation.
< Message edited by ShaktiSama -- 3/6/2009 10:41:16 PM >
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