Psychological characteristics of BDSM practitioners.
@article{Wismeijer2013PsychologicalCO, title={Psychological characteristics of BDSM practitioners.}, author={A. Wismeijer and M. V. van Assen}, journal={The journal of sexual medicine}, year={2013}, volume={10 8}, pages={ 1943-52 } }
INTRODUCTION
It has been generally thought that the practice of bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism (BDSM) is in some form associated with psychopathology. However, several more recent studies suggest a relative good psychological health of BDSM practitioners.
AIM
The aim of this study was to compare scores of BDSM practitioners and a control group on various fundamental psychological characteristics.
METHODS
For this aim, 902 BDSM and 434 control participants… Expand
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