marieToo -> RE: Successful redirection?....or just plain weird? (8/25/2006 9:49:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: spankmepink11 There have been many threads regarding pain, and peoples relationship with it. Once i discovered that there were many types of pain that i could enjoy and gain pleasure from,, i found i began to wonder about the possibility of enjoying other types of pain as well. I'm not referring to self induced pain, but more of the "incidental" type. I've experimented with the concept now and then just out of curiousity, but just the other day i felt like i had reached an exciting breakthrough in this area. I was doing some work on my pool, there is a large flowering bush next to it...and i've been having to skim the surface to remove the tiny seemingly endless buds. I was going back and forth skimming...when my shin came into contact with one of the aluminum struts (it's a large above ground pool). Needless to say...a sharp rap to the shins is not what most would consider pleasureable and at that point neither did i. I'm not sure if it was the unlevel ground...but each time i passed over a particular strut i seemed to knock that exact same spot on my shin. By the time i was finished, i had been concentrating so hard on letting that pain flow through me, that i was actually able to enjoy it...and was almost aroused by it. That includes the accompanying hot painful throb. I suppose what i'm asking is: Can incidental pain be channeled into pleasure? And are there others who are successful at it? OR....Am i just a hopelessly weird type of masochist? I dont know about the physical aspect of pain being redirected, though I have certainly heard accounts of the various ways that some type of pleasureable stimulis can be applied while pain is being administered thereby creating a reassociation of sorts. Ive never experienced it, but I could understand how it could be possible. Ive certainly experienced my fair share of physical pain, but never where it felt pleasurable for me. I have at times, with someone that I was in submission to, been able to turn emotional pain that they have put me through into pleasure. I dont mean the kind of pain you feel when you are heartbroken. I mean the kind of emotional frustration that comes from being ignored or not being allowed to speak my mind, or having to stifle something and swallow my pride. I have to dig really really deep for it, but Ive learned to get to a place where I can process that type of pain as pleasure. At times being masochistic can be a blessing, because we have the unique ability to turn 'hurt' into pleasure, and it can almost serve as a type of self preservation.
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