In one study, researchers looked at personality traits, relationship attachment styles, and the general well-being of individuals who engaged in BDSM. Contrary to many popular stereotypes, the study found that those who engaged in these sexual practices were actually, on average better adjusted than their non-BDSM practicing counterparts. Those in the BDSM group: Felt more secure in their relationships Had an increased sense of well-being Were more conscientious toward others Were more extroverted Were more open to trying new experiences Had decreased anxiety Were less sensitive to others' perceptions.
Research has shown BDSM participants enter an altered level of consciousness similar to the meditative state yoga practitioners experience or the marathoner’s “runner's high.” It is commonly known these activities can benefit health by helping lower our levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Participation in BDSM may have the same effects. For example, one series of studies found that partners in dominant roles had decreased cortisol levels after a BDSM session. Cortisol is known as the "stress hormone" and may be associated with a range of health issues including high blood pressure, suppressed immunity, and insulin resistance Researchers have also found that some participants regard BDSM as a spiritual experience.3
Researchers have also determined that participating in successful sadomasochistic scenes increases the feeling of connectedness and intimacy with partners. While the exact reasons for this are not entirely clear, research has shown that doing novel things with romantic partners, rather than the same routine activities, increases intimacy. Brain scans of married couples revealed that sharing novel activities triggers the brain's reward system and floods it with dopamine and other feel-good chemicals.
And you get to make new friends and meet some really cool people. One of the best attributes of the folks in this world is that they are genarlly not judgemental. Everyone has a kink and we embrace everyones kink without judgement.
If you are interested in giving BDSM a try, there are some great ways to get started. There are a number of "light" BDSM practices that can be a good starting point for beginners, including such things as: Hair pulling, Blindfolds, Light spanking, Scarf or tie bondage, and Roleplaying For more intense forms of erotic play, many experts suggest taking a class, reading a book, or watching instructional videos.
The following are some common fetishes within the BDSM world:
Abduction Seduction:
The act of abducting someone, but in a loving demeanor.
Adult Baby:
The act of pretending to be an infant or small child. Wearing diapers and accepting care from another.
Anal Sex:
The act of penetrating the anus.
Autofellatio:
A male preforming oral sex to themselves.
Bare-backing:
Sexual acts preformed without a condom.
Bathroom Control:
Choosing when someone uses the restroom.
Biting:
It is like kissing but there is a winner.
Blood Choking:
Restricting blood to the brain in hopes of them passing out.
Blood Play:
Sexual gradification from blood. May it be from blood letting, seeing, and or feeling.
Body Painting:
The act of treating another body as a canvas.
Bondage:
The act of restraining movements with rope, zip ties, chains, and/or another person.
Branding:
Using a heated object to mark the skin.
Breast or Nipple Torture:
A matter of bring pain to the breast and nipples.
Breath Play:
Restricting the access to air by means of choking.
Caning:
Striking someone with a cane.
CBT (Cock and Ball Torture):
A matter of bringing pain to the male genitalia.
Chastity:
A lack of some or all sexual activities.
Clothed Sex:
The act of having sex while clothed in hopes the fabric goes inside the body.
Collaring:
The act of wearing a collar to show you are the submissive. Some find this to be as serious as a wedding band.
CNC (Consensual Non-consent):
Sometimes referred to as “Rape Play”. Where you consent to act out being forced into sexual acts.
Corseting or Tight-lacing:
The act of altering the way you look by corsetry. Breath-play can be included.
Cross Dressing:
Wearing clothing of another gender such as your own.
Culcockery:
A male liking to watch their partner have sex with another male. Another away of humiliation.
Cupping:
Using certain cups to form a vacuum somewhere on the body.
DP (Double Penetration):
The act of having a penis in the vagina and in the ass, at the same time.
Electric Play:
Buzz buzz… Using toys to safely use elecctricity to stimulate you or your partner.
Face Fucking:
The act of roughly fucking ones mouth with your penis.
Facial Hair:
You like the look and feel of facial hair.
Fire Play:
Safely using fire as a stimulant.
Fisting:
Using your fist to penetrate a vagina or anus.
Flogging:
The act of using a “multi-tailed” whip to strike your partner.
Food Play:
Sexual intercourse using food, such as whipped cream.
Foot Fetish:
Finding arousal from feet.
Forced Feeding:
Forcing a consenting adult so they gain weight.
Furry:
The act of dressing up in an animalistic costume. Is not always sexual.
Golden Showers:
The act of urinating on your partner.
Graphoerotica:
Using your partner as “paper” by writing words on their body.
Gunplay:
An arousing stimulant from the use or threat of a firearm.
Hand Fetish:
Finding arousal from hands.
Hermaphrodites:
Finding arousal from someone with both male and female genitalia.
Human Furniture:
The fetish of liking to operate as furniture.
Impact Play:
Sexual practice of striking an individual for yours or their gradifications.
Impregnation:
Usually from a man's point of view, the act of getting someone pregnant.
Intelligence Fetish:
Finding it arousing to conversate or debate with someone of high intelligence.
Knife Play:
Finding it arousing to or sensual by playing with knives and/or sharp objects. Can also be used during roleplay.
Knismogenic:
The act of finding tickling to be arousing.
Lactation:
Finding women who are lactating to be arousing. Most times it involves drinking their milk.
Loud Sex:
Find stimulations in the thought of knowing someone can hear you having sex.
Medical Play:
The act of using medical tools to play with or to use during a role playing theme.
Mummification:
The act of tightly binding someone to restrict movement. Can also be a sensory stimulent.
Needle Play:
Role Playing themes that involve using and/or the threat of using needles.
Nyotaimori:
Yummy! The act of consuming sushi off of a naked body.
Orgasm Control:
It is not the same as “Orgasm Denial”. This is regulating your partners orgasms by gestures and signs.
Orgasm Denial:
This is not the same as “Orgasm Control”. Withholding your partners orgasms for any number of reasons.
Orgies:
Multiple consenting partners involved in the same sexual act at the same time.
Pecattiphilia:
Finding it arousing to do something counted as a sin in some religions.
Play Piercing:
Can go along with “Needle Play”. Finding it arousing to receive or give piercings to another consenting adult.
Pony Play:
This could include dressing up. Save a horse, ride a cowboy. You or your partner pretends to be a “pony” while other rides the “pony”
Pregnancy Fetish:
Finding someone who is pregnant to be very attractive.
Puppy Play:
Pretending to be a “puppy” for either yours or your partners enjoyment.
PVC:
Finding it appealing to wear PVC clothing.
Queening:
Using your partner's face as a “throne”, while preforming oral sex.
Rough Sex:
This could include giving and/or receiving biting, hair pulling, spanking, and or scratching.
Rubber:
Loving the feeling of wearing rubber clothing.
Scat Play:
Just like a “Golden Shower”, but with fecal matter.
Sensation Play:
You or your partner finding different textures ran across the body stimulating.
Sensory Deprivation:
Taking away different senses. Such as blind folding for loss of sight, or earplugs for loss of hearing.
Sex Toys:
Having a strong liking to one specific sex toy or different sex toys.
Shibari:
A Japanese word meaning “binding” or tying. It is decorative bondage.
Sleep sack Fetish:
Finding a small space to be a sensory turn on.
Sounding:
The name is originally a medical term, but it is the act of inserting a metal rod into yours or your partner's urethra.
Spanking:
Finding the act of receiving or giving spankings to be very arousing.
Swinging/Swingers:
There are a few types of this but the biggest one is two or more consenting couples trading partners.
Tattoos:
Finding it arousing during the process of giving or receiving tattoos.
Texting and Audio:
Reading or listening to erotic stories. Sometimes writing these stories can also count.
Trampling:
Enjoying the feeling of one or more consenting adults stepping on you.
Transformation:
This is popular in Japanese animated porn AKA Hentai. This is the act of finding it pleasing to have your consenting partner to dress up or act like other people or things.
Uniform Fetish:
Finding anyone in a uniform to be attractive.
Vacuum Bed:
This could also count as “sensory deprivation”. Basically your consenting partner gets “vacuumed sealed” between two latex sheets with only a tube to breath from.
Vampire:
This could be a subtext of bloodplay but doesn’t have to involve blood. You or your partner either role plays as a vampire or victim.
Voyeurism:
The act of getting aroused from looking at naked people or watching people have sex.
Watersports:
This is playing bodily fluids such as urine, saliva, and sometimes blood. All during an erotic time.
Wax Play:
This involves you and a consenting partner dripping hot wax on to you or them.
Wrestling:
Two consenting adult play-fighting for body contact and a form of power control.
Xenophilia:
This is an attraction to someone of a different culture or of a culture itself.
Zentai:
This is the attraction to wear full latex/ lycra bodysuits
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