More on pain:
Did any of you watch the series on Netflix house of cards?
There's an episode where one of the White House officials, I think the chief of staff, admits to a friend that she is going in for a tattoo and she can't stop. She says she needs the pain to function.
I think an enema would be a better choice, but I completely can relate to her.
I think lots of people like the pain of an enema, but they don't identify it as such. Understandable. They just sort of lump it all together.
I saw a video on giving cane strokes and unfortunately, I can't remember where it was. It was linked to one of these sites.
It was a bunch of very ordinary people that could've been a neighborhood conference or something equally totally vanilla. There was a British woman giving instructions on how to administer cane strokes. She would bring people up to the front of the room, have them pull down there pants and underwear and would administer six strokes: three on each side.
Then she would administer more until they had enough. Then she interviewed them.
One of them was able to explain specifically what she was experiencing, and she said that she kept and asking for more strokes to prove to herself that she was able to take it. She saw it as a challenge and a victory when she was able to take the next set she also talked about the freedom and calmness that it provided.
The woman that was giving the strokes could have been a community Girl Scout volunteer or something. She looked totally normal, if you will, and there were no fetish or other sorts of people in the group.
I think if they were talking about enemas that it would've skewed a little differently, but as far as I'm concerned, there's the core of restorative pain that I have written of elsewhere here that I think is the most important element. I have read that cane strokes can deliver some of the same chemicals or endorphins, but they don't have the stretch hormones that are released by the gut. So I think enemas. are far stronger than just something causing pain
I'm really not preaching on the value of enemas. But I do want us to all understand that it's OK for us to like them and seek out the temporary pain that they can deliver..