Enjoy being in pain

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How can one enjoy being in pain?

The question of sexual masochism unveiled through a fascinating investigation.

It was the meeting with a patient feeling the imperious need to experience pain in order to be able to enjoy that aroused in Olivia Benhamou, clinical psychologist and sexologist, the desire to explore this subject. Far from the usual clichés, it sheds new light on an unconventional form of sexuality, but which fulfills multiple functions for its followers, ranging from the search for strong sensations to the search for total letting go, via the romantic quest for an exclusive relationship, a way to break with the constraints of everyday life, or even a solution to certain sexual difficulties.

Written in the first person, in the form of a psychological and sexological investigation, this text offers a theoretical reflection, an overview of cultural representations of masochism and, above all, the portraits of practitioners who have given themselves up to the author. about their sexual habits and the place they occupy in their individual history. This fascinating essay takes the reader by the hand, retracing the author's thought process and his discoveries, and answers the questions that can be asked about the psychic issues of BDSM, at a time when these practices seem to be democratized.