PMID- 25690315
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160906
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1532-2149 (Electronic)
IS  - 1090-3801 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 9
DP  - 2015 Oct
TI  - Attitudes and emotions towards pain and sensitivity to painful stimuli among 
      people routinely engaging in masochistic behaviour.
PG  - 1321-30
LID - 10.1002/ejp.662 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: People engaged in masochistic behaviour (MB) seek to experience pain 
      and the pleasure it evokes in sadomasochistic (S&M) sessions. The sensitivity and 
      attitude to pain in these individuals has hardly been tested. We evaluated pain 
      perception among these individuals and tested whether their experiences and 
      attitudes towards pain are context-related. METHODS: Thirty-four healthy subjects 
      participated; 17 routinely engaged in MB and 17 controls. Pressure pain threshold 
      (PPT) was measured in two body regions. A structured questionnaire on S&M 
      activities and context-related pain experiences and emotions was completed, as 
      well as the pain catastrophizing (CAT) and fear of pain (FOP) questionnaires. 
      RESULTS: PPT was significantly higher among MB individuals and positively 
      correlated with the frequency of S&M sessions. MB individuals also had lower 
      levels of CAT, and FOP correlated negatively with the frequency of MB and the 
      number of body regions involved. Pleasure evoked during S&M sessions correlated 
      positively with pain intensity and number of body regions involved. Pain in 
      everyday life correlated negatively with MB activities. However, the emotional 
      attitude to everyday pain was ambivalent: MB individuals perceived pain intensity 
      and unpleasantness similar to the controls, but simultaneously gained pleasure 
      from the pain. CONCLUSIONS: MB individuals exhibited pain hyposensitivity, 
      presumably resulting from frequent engagement in MB. Alternatively, these 
      subjects may have a predisposition which enables this engagement. Attitudes 
      towards pain in MB individuals are complex. They appear to be context-related 
      with pain experienced as pleasurable and rewarding during S&M sessions, and 
      negative but still pleasurable in everyday life.
CI  - (c) 2015 European Pain Federation - EFIC(R)
FAU - Defrin, R
AU  - Defrin R
AD  - Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Sackler 
      Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
AD  - Sagol School of Neurosciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
FAU - Arad, M
AU  - Arad M
AD  - Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Sackler 
      Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
FAU - Ben-Sasson, M P
AU  - Ben-Sasson MP
AD  - Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Sackler 
      Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
FAU - Ginzburg, K
AU  - Ginzburg K
AD  - Bob Shapell School of Social work, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150217
PL  - England
TA  - Eur J Pain
JT  - European journal of pain (London, England)
JID - 9801774
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Emotions/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Masochism/*physiopathology
MH  - Pain Measurement/methods
MH  - Pain Perception/*physiology
MH  - Pain Threshold/*physiology
EDAT- 2015/02/19 06:00
MHDA- 2016/09/07 06:00
CRDT- 2015/02/19 06:00
PHST- 2014/11/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/02/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/02/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/09/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/ejp.662 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Pain. 2015 Oct;19(9):1321-30. doi: 10.1002/ejp.662. Epub 2015 Feb 17.