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Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports 9/2013

01-09-2013 | Sexual Disorders (JP Fedoroff, Section Editor)

Consensual Sadomasochistic Sex (BDSM): The Roots, the Risks, and the Distinctions Between BDSM and Violence

Author: Eva Jozifkova

Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Issue 9/2013

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Abstract

When practiced consensually, sadomasochistic sex is being increasingly accepted as an alternative sexuality. Here I suggest the possible evolutionary roots of the preferences, draw distinctions between violent, abusive and “healthy” practitioners’ partnership, provide clear behavioural markers of the respective situations, and underline some specific problems connected to this sexual preference. Some of the problems are well-known in the community of its practitioners, although they have not yet been described in medical nor scientific sources.
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Metadata
Title
Consensual Sadomasochistic Sex (BDSM): The Roots, the Risks, and the Distinctions Between BDSM and Violence
Author
Eva Jozifkova
Publication date
01-09-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports / Issue 9/2013
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0392-1

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