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Sierra -thanks for the info, but I phrased my question badly. If you weren’t beaten up or whatever–how does one ever know that one needs spanking or whatever to get off? Orgasm doesn’t happen and you keep trying new things? I have always wondered about people who need to dressed in wetsuits etc–how does one ever figure that out?
Does a partner one day just try it out on you (Not you personally) or does one find themselves fantasizing. Sorry to still be so ignorant.<snip>
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Another perfectly fair question, though I really only have an anecdote, because I’m certainly not any sort of official expert on this sort of thing - but for myself, it really was just a trial and error sort of thing. I’ve always had what could be called a slightly masochistic bent. I did say I’m not really sure where it comes from, but I have now been giving it some thought since this topic came up, and I suppose I can tie it back to certain circumstances, if not one particular instance.
If someone tries to hurt/injure me, my natural response is to try and bear through the pain and sometimes goad them into hurting me more. Why? To prove I could take it, to prove I was tougher than they were. Somewhere along the line, I began to realise I was getting a kind of… I wouldn’t really call it a “high”, but the right type of pain stimulus would leave my head swimming and leave me with a sort of a rush - like some people would get from a rollercoaster, or I suppose similar to the runner’s high that others have. Though to start out with, it was never a sexual thing.
I’ve also always been fascinated with the various ways that people explore their sexuality. In my late teens, I found my way into the sex-blog community, and found a lot of people talking about a lot of kinks. And I found those who were talking about pain play, about being spanked as part of foreplay, or using hairpulling and other methods of inducing pain as part of the sex act. Most of those on the receiving end described the same sort of “rush” that I was already familiar with, explaining how it enhanced and was enhanced by making it a sexual act. A little light went on in my brain - “I like pain. Maybe I’d like sex pain if it’s as good as they say it is…” And it went from there.
It took a while to figure out the stuff I like. Spanking was good from the get-go, and biting and hairpulling were also pretty neat. I tried some bondage, and while I like being restrained to some degree, the full bondage that some people enjoy just sends me into a panic and removes any sort of pleasure I was getting in the first place. I don’t think I could handle being gagged at all, though blindfolding is not something I’d say ‘no’ to. It’s all about experimentation, figuring out what your personal boundaries are, and how far you’re prepared to push them.
I can’t stress enough, if you(being anyone) wants to know more about these sort of things, how people get into them and what they get out of them, there’s a lot of very good sex blogs out there. My personal favourite is Eros Blog (no linky, google fun!). Bacchus, the webmaster, keeps a roster of kink and sex-positive blogs that have a lot of good information in them, and his own archives are an often eye-opening read. He does link to porn, but he’s got a very hardline stance about not linking to popup-filled spampr0n sites, and I’ve found a lot of very good information from his linked affiliates.
Be proud of your vanilla roots, sister. How else would we kinksters know we’re doing something naughty if we didn’t have a yardstick to measure it against?
