kolekorin -> RE: What Drove You to D/S (8/13/2008 9:15:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lockit I have watched the love of bondage manifest in persons who had nothing happen to them by the age they were. They tied anything they could tie up and it moved on from there. I cannot tell you how many times I had to figure out how to get someone or somethings, often a combo of both, freed. I often wonder why we would consider that bdsmer's have a higher rate of any kind of mental illness, abuse or anything else. I don't even think I would trust research on this because it is often so slanted. I don't know anyone that has been included in any such data finding. Sometimes we need to stop trying to find a cause and just accept what is, as what is. I think the more important questions would be... and a personal one at that... is your bdsm harmful to your life somehow? If it is all good... why worry about it? I don't assume that bdsm'rs have a higher rate of mental illness. I strongly suspect, though, that BDSM'rs have a significantly higher rate of something terrible happening during the formative years. I'm willing to bet if we dug around most of the people on this site's past there is something lurking in the depths of their memory they don't recognize as strange or crazy simply because it was "the norm" growing up. Though I do acknolwege there are plenty of people for whom it comes natrually, I'm simply saying they are the exception and not the rule. Oh, and I'm not knocking the lifestyle by any means. My question is driven by curiousity, the same curiosity that drives me to ask why are the waves at the beach are bigger at 2:30 or why are mexican people statistically more likely to have diabetes. It's interesting to me and helps me understand my world better.
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