The Language of Pain

A Philosophical Study of BDSM

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3333813
AutoresTimo Airaksinen (0000-0001-8850-418X, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas215824401877173
Data de publicação2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244018771730
OpenAlexW2801822611
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas15

This philosophical article attempts to promote the recognition of the social world of BDSM in philosophical and tropological perspective. BDSM, and especially sadomasochism, is difficult to understand in its own, characteristic motivational perspective because such negative experiences as, say, pain and humiliation, indicate aversion rather than attraction. To cause pain to others is typically condemned. To cosset pain and suffering is said to be perverse. My main point is we that can better understand BDSM via its typical language and rhetoric, especially by paying attention to the key role of linguistic metonymy when we discuss the riddles of pain and pleasure. Also, this article discusses the various ways of talking about and potentially condemning BDSM by calling it a perversion or a paraphilic disorder. I conclude that, within some reasonable limits, BDSM is not vulnerable to the standard forms of criticism

Criticism · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Humiliation · Linguistics · Objectification · Pain and pleasure · Perversion · Pleasure · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Rhetoric · Sadomasochism · Shame · Sociology · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology