{"id":20490,"date":"2013-05-31T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20490"},"modified":"2013-05-31T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:16:21","slug":"lovers-of-bdsm-report-a-higher-level-of-subjective-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/lovers-of-bdsm-report-a-higher-level-of-subjective-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovers of BDSM report \u201ca higher level of subjective well-being\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Boing Boing<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/05\/30\/bdsm-aficionados-better-adjust.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Xeni Jardin<\/a> discusses a recent Dutch paper comparing people who indulge in BDSM with boring old &#8220;vanilla&#8221; types:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A provocative article from the Netherlands published in the <em>Journal of Sexual Medicine<\/em> says people who like to participate in bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sado-masochism erotic play are &#8220;characterized by a set of balanced, autonomous, and beneficial personality characteristics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Practitioners of BDSM report \u201ca higher level of subjective well-being\u201d when compared to people who tend to have more boring forms of sex.<\/p>\n<p>These sexual practices have long been &#8220;associated with psychopathology,&#8221; the paper says. &#8220;However, several more recent studies suggest a relative good psychological health of BDSM practitioners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is safe for work, but you&#8217;ll quickly get into NSFW territory by doing Google searches for most of the terms used&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin discusses a recent Dutch paper comparing people who indulge in BDSM with boring old &#8220;vanilla&#8221; types: A provocative article from the Netherlands published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine says people who like to participate in bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sado-masochism erotic play are &#8220;characterized by a set of balanced, autonomous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,16],"tags":[909,139,255],"class_list":["post-20490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-science","tag-bdsm","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20491,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions\/20491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}