Sadomasochism

Sadomasochism is a paraphilia that supports both sadistic and masochistic sexual behavioral patterns. The main characteristic of sadomasochism is the eroticizing of pain.
What looks to the average person as to be somewhat painful, even very painful, is experienced to the sadomasochist as completely pleasurable and very sexually arousing to them.

Two people each play a role in this activity. One plays the sadist which is the sadomasochistic role of the pair, and the person who inflicts the pain and/or punishment. The other role is played by the masochist who is the person who submits to enduring the pain, humiliation to their partner the sadist the one who is in control.

This is all played out by having sexual encounters, generally played out like a scripted scene in a theater production. These sexual and simulating interactions between the Sadist who would play the domineering role and the masochist who plays the submissive one.

The characters roles would play out like this; the master or mistress and slave, employer and servant-maid, teacher and student, owner and horse or dog, and parent and child.

Sadomasochists like to play the roles right down to the clothing and may wear black leather masks and being chained to a wall and whipped . Others like to be tied and blind folded to a bed and getting running silk or ice cubes or rabbit fur over their body.

It’s not always about a couple, male and female, some gay males and heterosexuals engage in a genre of sadomasochism known as “leathersex”.

The euphoria experienced by the release of endorphins may explain the need for some “masochists” to want to have this physical and painful experience.

Just as popular as the scenes of humiliation, is the enforcer, and  who has nonphysical punishments placed upon them It is a bit confusing how they get their euphoria high in the attraction, where there is no physical pain.

Sadomasochists occasionally swap their roles from masochistic to the sadistic role. In a softer atmosphere, and without excessive cruelty or bodily pain and punishment, a role of a dominant controlling partner and one of a submissive partner are behaviors that might be found in many marriages and/or relationships found today, or could possibly be a part of some fantasy role-playing.

As sadomasochistic role-playing in their most extreme forms can be physically and psychologically precarious, the larger population engaging in these type of behaviors do so with the knowledge of the dangers and consequences and stay carefully within predetermined limits agreed upon.