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njlauren -> RE: Is Sadism a mental illness? (3/5/2013 10:24:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MalcolmNathaniel
Am I the only one who questions the validity of the question?
Your options are: BDSM is an illness or it's normal.
Since when is not being normal an illness?
I'm a geek. I know the inner workings of a computer - right down to the transistors. I was awed by the simplicity of Einstein's theory of relativity and floored by how many others before him had missed it. I vote every election.
Is any of that normal?
No.
But does any of that make me mentally ill?
Normal is the average. That would mean that everyone has brown hair, 1.04 breasts, 96% testicles, half a penis, one ovary...
... I doubt the very validity of the question.
What we do is not normal, but it isn't a mental disease.
Normal has many meanings, it can mean statistically in the middle of the park, typical, average, or it can mean disordered (as in abnormal). I think BD/SM is outside the norm, but I don't think it is abnormal in the sense of being disordered. On top of everything else, anyone who has ever seen a shrink or read anything about psychology will realize that no one is normal per se, we all have quirks and phobias and neuroses and such that 'deviate from the norm' *smile*.
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