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ORIGINAL: Padriag

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ORIGINAL: Bearlee

Okay...so the reason I don't get sexually aroused at pain is cuz nobody taught me?  Lordy, I do feel better…I thought I was a duffus or something.  I get turned on by Sadists…not by the pain they cause me.  I like to watch them, be the object of their pleasure, and share in their delight.  Pleasing a Sadist turns me on.  Does that make sense?

Sheeshhhhhhhh… all this time I thought I was doing something wrong.  While I do like to get whipped bloody; it hurts like HELL!  But… OMG, the smile on his face!

Soooooooo… maybe with the right Dominant and enough time; I could learn a new trick…she says, cheekily. 

Basically, yes, that's it in a nutshell.  I don't think I've ever met anyone in the meat who actually perceived pain as pleasure... pain hurts, that's pretty much a universal truth (or in behaviorist terms, its an unconditioned aversive stimulus; which is just a fancy term for "pain naturally hurts!").  Some people have higher tolerances for pain due to biology, their nervous system is wired in such a way they don't feel pain as intensely as someone else.  Some people learn to have a higher tolerance for pain; they feel pain, they just condition themselves to ignore it and tolerate it.  But the pain still hurts.  When you hear of someone becoming arroused by being flogged, or even having an orgasm as a result, that's another conditioned behavior (respondent conditioning).  Sometimes it happens because someone teaches or trains them to behave that way, sometimes it happens accidentally through an unusual set of environment conditions.  That is, sometimes things just happen in a person's life in the right combination to accidentally produce that behavior.  By accidentally I mean it wasn't intentional or deliberate, the causes occured for reasons other than attempting to produce that behavior.