# S&M / Bondage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-m-bondage/308421>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-m-bondage/308421 "2005-06-15T19:11:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-m-bondage/308421/21 "2005-07-13T10:32:00Z")

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> [@sn3kers](#):
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> I have enjoyed the information I have been given on his topic.I really had no idea how S&M and Bondage differed.Although I have a few questions I would like answered if possible.How does “scat” arouse people…?

This may be a nitpick, but it seems to me that scat isn’t that closely related to most forms of BDSM. At the very least it isn’t closely integrated with mainstream BDSM. For example, the [FAQ for the SSBB newsgroup](http://www.unrealities.com/adult/ssbb/n.htm) says “Some people are into scat play, which is playing with shit. I don’t know any who are, but they’re out there.”, and while my experience with “the bondage community” is limited, I’d guess that bringing up the subject of scat play at a BDSM party would get someone about the same kind of response that a “cat o’ nine tails vs. bullwhip” discussion might get in a more mainstream crowd. I understand that anal fisting (apparently more common among kinky gays than kinky straights) can get a little messy, but the attitude towards the… uh, _mess_ seems to be that it it just something that comes with the practice, and it isn’t a focal point of the act in the way that a paraphilia would be.

Beyond that, I have no idea how people become aroused by scat.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-m-bondage/308421/22 "2005-07-15T16:43:40Z")

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Here is my .02 on scat arousal. It seems to me that it all goes back to a feeling of arousal based on a sense of low self-worth. If someone gets on on being humiliated, what could be more humiliating that someone crapping on your face?

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