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marsman -> Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 8:16:57 AM)

Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a tamer sex life

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2333244/Could-bondage-good-S-M-enthusiasts-healthier-neurotic-tamer-sex-life.html



sexyred1 -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 8:22:35 AM)

I think it must be true; when I was doing this alot more, I felt much better. [;)]



Greta75 -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 10:17:01 AM)

It says submissive are most imbalanced, but still score highest in mental health, what the hell does that mean?



Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 1:13:03 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Greta75

It says submissive are most imbalanced, but still score highest in mental health, what the hell does that mean?

It said subs scored lower in mental health than did dominants and switches, but that subs never scored lower than vanillas.



stef -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 1:18:19 PM)

"Dr Andreas Wismeijer, a psychologist from Tilburg University, found that BDSM practitioners ‘either did not differ from the general population and if they differed, they always differed in the more favourable direction’."

I don't know. Many members of the "BDSM community" I've met over the years seem to readily contradict this.



Charles6682 -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/30/2013 5:09:30 PM)

So as a sub,according to this study, at least I am not any crazier than the rest of society. Good, now I can check that off my list. The study certainly has its pros but still, just being a sub does not make anyone any more or any less crazy. Unless it really has impacted someone's life in a negative way. People who live this Lifestyle 24/7,I wouldn't say they are crazy either just because they may live this way of life all the time.If its a positive experience,then I can't see how that could be deemed "crazy".

Any unhealthy relationship isn't good for the human spirit.



Aibo -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/31/2013 3:04:24 AM)

Greta75 asked: "It says submissive are most imbalanced, but still score highest in mental health, what the hell does that mean?"

It means completely sane and the brain engine fire on all barrels up to full rev, but somewhat neurotic.

I find it amusing that the sentence is a perfect description with those I have had long time relationships with. Though the one I got one on-off thing with right now don't even have the slightest neurotic streak.

Any study like this do have one big shortcoming though, and that is the selection of those who were interviewed. I have a hunch it were not average but people who have a need to communicate. That mentioning of "more outgoing" made one alarm bell go off for me. Since IMO many submissives have a somewhat introverted personality.



theshytype -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/31/2013 2:29:39 PM)

I can only speak for myself, of course, but I am by no means an extrovert.
I can, however, attest to the fact that I am saner than most [;)]



Moonlightmaddnes -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (5/31/2013 3:43:14 PM)

I am an introvert and I am into BDSM. My husband is more extroverted then I am but still is not as outgoing as some people. Both of us are completely mentally stable though. His family that is Vanilla are the ones that pay out the big bucks for therapy and pills. His sister drove down from Washington DC and forgot her pills and had to call in an emergency prescription when she started having anxiety attacks.



tsatske -> RE: Could bondage be good for you? S&M enthusiasts are 'healthier and less neurotic' than those with a t (6/1/2013 12:56:00 PM)

I'm crazy, of course, but it is probably a combination of bad genes and a bad childhood. But, I have to say, for someone with my varied diagnoses, I am really pretty stable. Of course, I take pills, and have a lot of outside support, but I know other, vanilla bi-polars - and a few in the lifestyle - who are just nuts. I consider that to be using your diagnoses as an excuse for bad behavior, which I am opposed to. Crazy or not, I am accountable for my actions and choices. And I choose to get beat on. And, when I'm getting it - I'm unowned now, so not so much - I am more stable yet. When I was trying to go to nursing school while being non-medication managed, I would ask my owner at the time to beat me before a big test. The endorphins it released would carry over to the next day, and I could take my test calm and relaxed. How do vanilla people duplicate that, unless they run?



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