ArticleCurrent psychiatry reports2013
Consensual sadomasochistic sex (BDSM): the roots, the risks, and the distinctions between BDSM and violence.
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- Authority Transfer Relationship: Between Negotiation and Boundary Crossing.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- The Psychology of Kink: A Cross-Sectional Survey Investigating the Association Between Adult Attachment Style and BDSM-Related Identity Choice in China.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- An Evolutionary Psychological Approach Toward BDSM Interest and Behavior.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Review
- Dark Tetrad personality traits, paraphilic interests, and the role of impulsivity: an EEG-study using a Go/No-Go paradigm.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How safe is BDSM? A literature review on fatal outcome in BDSM play.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
When practiced consensually, sadomasochistic sex is being increasingly accepted as an alternative sexuality. Here I suggest the possible evolutionary roots of the preferences, draw distinctions between violent, abusive and "healthy" practitioners' partnership, provide clear behavioural markers of the respective situations, and underline some specific problems connected to this sexual preference. Some of the problems are well-known in the community of its practitioners, although they have not yet been described in medical nor scientific sources.
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