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 Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:48 pm
A note to moderators before I begin, here: If you find this topic to be inappropriate or are otherwise concerned about it, please feel free to delete it. I did try to find you online before I posted this, but you weren't anywhere to be found. http://www.bannon.com/kap/psycho.htm (A list of kink and alternate lifestyle-friendly therapists) In speaking with my parents about BDSM, I discovered that they believe it to be a symptom of mental illness, if not a mental illness in-and-of itself. I know for certain that mental illness is very prevalent in the BDSM community, but I don't know about causality and such. What is your opinion?
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:31 pm
Llelwyn A note to moderators before I begin, here: If you find this topic to be inappropriate or are otherwise concerned about it, please feel free to delete it. I did try to find you online before I posted this, but you weren't anywhere to be found. No problem, but in the future you can PM a moderator, whether they're online or not, and they can respond to your question the next time they get online. I'm going to let this thread stay for now because it's on-topic and uses appropriate language. However, I am going to include some notes from Gaia's TOS here for those who will be posting in this thread. Please be aware of the rules and follow them so that we don't have to delete this thread. TOS Keep the Content of the Forums and the Art Arena to a PG-13 level. Exceptions to this rule are made on a case-by-case basis to allow for artistic creativity and freedom of speech. [...]. While using the GAIA Online Experience, the User may not: 1. upload, post, email, graphically portray, or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racist or otherwise objectionable. PG-13 Rating Rough or persistent violence is absent; sexually-oriented nudity is generally absent; some scenes of drug use may be seen; one use of the harsher sexually derived words may be heard. Now, on to answering the question in your post! Llelwyn In speaking with my parents about BDSM, I discovered that they believe it to be a symptom of mental illness, if not a mental illness in-and-of itself. I know for certain that mental illness is very prevalent in the BDSM community, but I don't know about causality and such. What is your opinion? If you look in the DSM-IV-TR under Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, you will find that "Sadism" and "Masochism" are among those listed. However, in order for them to be disorders, they need to have qualifying characteristics as follows: For Sadism, "the person has acted on these urges with a nonconsenting person, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty." For Masochism, "the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." Thus, if you are having legal BDSM fantasies, with a consenting person (or alone), that aren't affecting your life in a negative way, my opinion is that you don't have those mental-illnesses!
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:33 pm
I haven't brought up my interest in BDSM to my shrink, but I did have to explain polyamory to him. rolleyes
I think it's fine as a "hobby," but I'm kind of wary of people who are in it 24/7. To me it's a sexual thing, it's very little to do with who I am as a person. One of my partners is definitely, totally dominant, but in everyday life, it's hardly obvious. If he were always ordering people around, or felt a need to do so, I'd suggest he talk to a shrink. At first I was kind of weirded out by some of the things I enjoyed, but I doubt it really has a pathological reason. I'm fine not doing the BDSM thing, so it doesn't fit the psychological definition of a fetish, just a variant.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:27 pm
La Veuve Zin I haven't brought up my interest in BDSM to my shrink, but I did have to explain polyamory to him. rolleyes I think it's fine as a "hobby," but I'm kind of wary of people who are in it 24/7. To me it's a sexual thing, it's very little to do with who I am as a person. One of my partners is definitely, totally dominant, but in everyday life, it's hardly obvious. If he were always ordering people around, or felt a need to do so, I'd suggest he talk to a shrink. At first I was kind of weirded out by some of the things I enjoyed, but I doubt it really has a pathological reason. I'm fine not doing the BDSM thing, so it doesn't fit the psychological definition of a fetish, just a variant. totally agree hun i think it only becomes a problem WHEN IT REALLY AFFECTS YOUR LIFE AND YOU CANT GO WITHOUT IT... btw you gotta love tryin to explain polygamy to anyone not only a shrink rolleyes
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