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PeonForHer -> RE: BDSM and abuse (3/17/2010 11:50:03 AM)
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I was never abused either, faded.
I don't know if there's a link between being abused and a later desire to get into D/s relationships. I do know, though, that every sexual behaviour seen as 'aberrant' in the past has been blamed on childhood abuse at one time or another.
My own feeling is that the sexual drives are too deep and too primitive for psychologists to have reached them. Nonetheless, the world will always abound with arrogant tits who reckon that they, alone, can understand such primal drives.
The whole history of psychology is full of this phenomenon. I'll always fondly remember one of Freud's first targets of criticism, who thought that psychological problems were down to problems with the nasal linings. Then, later, the behaviourists all argued furiously that Freud and the entire psychoanalytic school were a lot of quacks who simply couldn't know what they claimed to know. It was a travesty of science, they said. Then, later still, a bunch of psychologists decided that the behaviourists were themselves being nutty by trying to exclude the human mind from the equation in their efforts to reduce the human behaviour to drives that were identical to those of monkeys or rats. Cognitive psychology was born. Lots of other schools sprouted, too.
Pfft. They say that if you want three completely contradictory views of the economy, just ask three economists. The human mind is the most complicated thing in the known universe. I'd take the whole subject of psychology not with a pinch of salt, but a fleet of truckloads worth of it.
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