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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:31:38 PM   
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Cin,

Excellent descriptions!

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:33:51 PM   
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i'm getting a good idea about it all, maybe i will experience it firsthand someday.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:36:56 PM   
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Cin,

Excellent descriptions!


Thank you...This is causing me to write an essay in Word, as I go along...LOL I often find collarme threads serve to inspire me to add journal entries on my BDSM site. I thank Michael for this one. LOL

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:37:05 PM   
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You are correct...not only does it use the same sensors(structures) within the brain....the electronic and chemical "messages" produced by stimuli, whether it be pleasurable or painful, travel along the same pathways to the brain and cause many of the same chemical processes to occur. Specifically the production of dopamine and endorphins.

In other words, pain and pleasure are part of a continuum....on different areas of the same spectrum.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:38:00 PM   
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glad i could help 

see, i do have some uses besides being a brat and a pain in the ass...LOL


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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:42:38 PM   
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I'm getting a good idea about it all, maybe i will experience it firsthand someday.


You will, Michael.

I believe you won't give up, no matter how often you seem to say you will. If you were going to, I think you would have, by now, so something tells me, you will make it happen.

Many times in the 20 years between recognizing my desire for this, and actually experiencing it, I gave up any hope of experiencing it. All I can say, is it wouldn't be denied, and here I am.

The impression I have of you, is that it's very hard for you to have faith, but from an outsider's view, I see you as too stubborn to give up.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:48:09 PM   
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see, i do have some uses besides being a brat and a pain in the ass...LOL



We all have our place in the family. LOL

(This isn't the first time you've made me think. And that's why I'm here.)

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 1:54:55 PM   
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maybe that's why i'm here...to make people think...huh?




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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 2:09:05 PM   
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Hi Michael,

The best way I can describe it is, that if you really like spicy food but hate the "heat".  You may take a bit and then have a chaser.  I would paddle and then rub the boy's front at the same time.  I hope this helps.  He would want to stop.. but then .. he didn't :)

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 4:15:04 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bearlee


michael, Padraig has an interesting explanation of this phenomenon …  He says anybody can be ‘taught’ this within weeks (if I remember correctly).  He says it is as simple as alternating sexual pleasure with pain enough that the mind links the two and finally feels pain as sexual pleasure.
 
Keep in mind Pavlov’s dog; the ‘dinner bell’ and instant salivating?  Same/same I think.
 
Anyway…I’d like to learn it.  <sigh>
beverly


Hi Bearlee, Michael.... and all

Some people just love the abandon of extreme sensations,
and don't need to reframe it into labels like "pleasure" or "pain".

Some people have eroticised their response to "pain"

Some people long to be punished.

Some people long to be used and abused, then adored right after..

I lucked on early kinky experiences, and thought they were cool,
which is not all that uncommon. 

Some people, perhaps most, had unusual fantasies,
which percolated and fermented in their minds
till they became realized desires.....

Some people seem to be "reverse-wired" in many ways,
so amphetamines slow them down, excitement relaxes 'em... blah blah

There are some not-so-dubious theories about endorphins,
but I really don't think they tell the whole story...

... this is all pretty well established mainstream stuff,
but without any real, respected, objective , physiological
clinical examination of kink and masochism that I'm aware of....


>>that the mind links the two

For some people, as Bearlee says... the name Pavlov rings a bell.

A basic trait of our mind + nervous system is to make associations.

Mommie's special tone of voice ==> she's angry ==> I feel shame.

Behaviorist talk about classical conditioning and operant conditioning. 

If you are interested in a well-established,
easy-to-understand type of this conditioning,
google "clicker training" for dogs.

You should pick up a decent understanding
of classical behavioural training in 10-15 mins...

The "click" can be anything,
including the thud of a good flogging.
Think about it...

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Here's a really simple experiment
if you want to understand the "relativity"
of sensation in human neurology first hand...

Get 3 big bowls.

Half-fill the left hand bowl with ice-cold water,
and fill it to the top with ice cubes.
Let it really chill while you boil some water.
Fill the right hand bowl with really really hot water,
just as hot as you can bear.
Fill the middle bowl with room temp water.

Put your right hand in the hot bowl.
Left hand in the freezing bowl.
Keep 'em there as long as you can stand... maybe longer...
(this is a BDSM site, right?)

Then, put both hands at the same time
into the middle, room temp bowl of water.
Look at your hands and notice the relative sensations.


Actually doing this experiment might change your whole understanding
of how your nervous system works.


Just reading about it ain't worth a shit.

DD




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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 4:25:11 PM   
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Honestly, my initiation into masochism was brought on by me watching some S&M videos, and wondering, if it hurt as much as it looked like it did. It started as simply: "I wonder..." (As a sadist, I have always had interest in doling it out on my victims.) 

The build up was slow and steady in my first flogging, and I felt it as feeling kindof good, like a massage. Subsequent scenes introduced me to different levels and different styles due to the randomness behind the way my roomate works. I found I liked them all. Even the scenes where my tolerence was pushed.

I soon found myself wanting to push that tolerance as far as I could. I am competitive, and being that I don't know my true end point, I want to find it. After, as I have heard it could happen, and only after I orgasmed from sceneing did I begin to eroticise the pain. Then, pain became so tied to orgasm that scenes, especially flogging, cause multiples.

It has just basically been a slow build up over the course of several scenes.

I have finally experienced agony, being pushed so far in scene I fought back tears from pain inflicted for pleasure's sake, for the first time in my life. And honestly, I found I liked it there, even then. So the only thing I can guess is there is a part of me that wants to experience agony and physical suffering. A part of me that enjoys it.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 4:34:12 PM   
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Well, my Master is telling me to try to explain what i feel.  It really is all very confusing to me sometimes.  i really don't know or understand how it works, i just know what i feel.  i have heard people that run great distances, get very tired and in pain and then all of a sudden it turns around and causes them to have a great surge of energy.  i think that is what happens.  for me, i might start off not liking the pain, but then somewhere it turns around and starts bringing me pleasure and eventually and orgasim.  i do have to let myself go and open myself to those feelings.  When Master uses the paddle for discipline and i know He is upset with me, those feeling don't turn to pleasure.  But, when He uses that same paddle and He is not angry with me, i can let go and let it turn to pleasure.

It did not start off this way though.  Master has worked with me to teach me how to let go and let the pleasure come.  Sometimes now even,  He has to remind me to stop thinking and just let it go.  I now even crave the pain at times.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 5:20:07 PM   
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I continue to tell people I am not a masochist, but they don't believe me. :)

For me, pain is not converted into pleasure.  It is pain.  It hurts.  I don't get off on pain. 

I do get off on force.  For example a face slap hurt, but the rawness of it gives me a mental/emotional thrill that overides the inconvenience of the pain.  I do get off on intensity, and pain is sometimes the price.  Like Tross has stated numerous times, I can view the pain as service and as it gives me a vicarious thrill to experience his reaction to it. I get off on that.  I also have a sense of accomplishment if I endure something.  For me it is a mental game of defiance, of strength, of devotion.

As far as endorphins and such, I have never really experienced that in response to pain alone. 


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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 5:34:06 PM   
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of course, as they always say...you never know until you try. i'm trying to be patient...but it ain't easy.

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RE: Pain & Pleasure - 7/19/2006 5:39:00 PM   
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I continue to tell people I am not a masochist, but they don't believe me. :)

For me, pain is not converted into pleasure.  It is pain.  It hurts.  I don't get off on pain. 

I do get off on force.  



As far as endorphins and such, I have never really experienced that in response to pain alone. 




What you say above, especially the red,
has been my lover's most common experience, too.

DD

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