Postby sarobah » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:49 pm
Since I am a wimp (for which read crybaby) and my boyfriend is a softie, we don’t incorporate pain into our TUGs – although to be honest, if it came to a choice, I would prefer pain (within reason) to tickle torture. Feet-tickling is especially unbearable, whereas the rubber band on the sole of the foot I kind of enjoyed, because the sensation is short and sharp, more of a shock than actual pain. (Like eating wasabi – the burning in your mouth is intense but doesn’t linger.)
The conventional wisdom is, of course, that pain induces a pleasurable rush of endorphins, but for me it does the opposite, short-circuiting the pleasure-producing parts of the brain.
On the other hand, I have had a few spankings. Because of my pain aversion, I’ve only been spanked when I really have been a “bad girl.” I am not like the heroine in the movie “Secretary” who intentionally misbehaves to earn her punishment. (And I wasn’t tied up at the time, so this is not really an answer to your question.) But while I don’t invite it, I enjoy the occasional spanking because of the submission and humiliation aspects.
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