When Lovers Find Pleasure in Pain

The article explains how it’s possible that some people experience pleasure if they feel pain during sexual intercourse.

 

There’s a thin line between pain and pleasure. (jlp)

There’s a thin line between pain and pleasure

 

Pain is a nerve signal transferred to the brain. The same goes for pleasure. The line that distinguishes pleasure from pain is therefore often unclear. Pinching, which usually causes pain, can also provide pleasure if you’re pinched by someone whom you love and who loves you in return. Caressing is pleasant if you’re caressed by the person you love, and it’s unpleasant if you’re caressed by a stranger during a ride on the underground. If someone scratches you, you feel pain and probably cry out. However, it often happens that you notice only after you finish your work in the garden that you've pricked your finger on a thorn, which you didn’t feel at that moment.

Body gets used to a recurrent pain

 

The body gets used to recurrent pain - this is reflected in many people as an immense pleasure. (jlp)

1)  The brain can intensify or ease feelings of pain.

2)  Instead of feeling worse, you get used to recurrent pain and can tolerate it, or even enjoy it (naturally, in certain limits).

What can sadomasochists tell us about pain?

 

1) An “erotic slap on the butt” is pleasant for the person who is doing it and for the person who is receiving it, on condition they both agree to that.

2) The first slaps aren’t particularly pleasant, but subsequent ones are increasingly more pleasant up to the line that shouldn’t be crossed. Sexual arousal of a woman can reach the level on which only slight stimulation of the clitoris can cause a strong orgasm.

 

A detailed experience of pleasure during painful stimulation of the clitoris with a whip is very vividly described in the adventures of the protagonist in Pablo Coelho’s novel Eleven Minutes.

 

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