autoRelease -> RE: Your mental illness; BDSM (7/15/2009 4:58:46 PM)
I checked, and they definitely were psychologists. The friends I'm talking about all have Aspberger-ish personalities... Maybe that's why the psychologists thought lack of interest in sex was an issue? I have to say that their opinions didn't surprise me. I've heard much the same myself.
xiam -> RE: Your mental illness; BDSM (7/16/2009 2:51:33 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Esinn I am deeply interested in how modern phycology views the mind of the Top/'Middle'(Switch) or Bottom. I am not formally schooled but passionately interested. Modern psychology goes wrong with the general thought erotogenic masochism is a sign of illness....
You might want to check out the A Defense of Masochism by Anita Phillips as well as any of Alfred Kinsey's studies.