Pain linked with Pleasure:Is it just hormones ?

"Love, sex, pain and violence all stimulate the release of similar chemicals and hormones in the human body. Endorphins that are released in painful experiences are often perceived as pleasurable. Stress and pain can also stimulate the serotonin and melatonin production in the brain which transforms painful experiences into pleasure. The release of adrenaline and nor adrenaline in pain can also cause a pleasurable 'rush'. Normal human biological response actually supports the complex and mysterious link between pain and pleasure." Wendy Strgar

Im curious to the links as to what makes only a select few people *like* pain ?.

Is it that only few people have the correct links and pathways so they experience that *normal* response?

If it is a *normal* response why is it surrounded by so much taboo, is it the way we have been conditioned?

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Great questions! Although I have read that masochist might have a somewhat different/more pleasurable response to pain than most people, it seems to me the social taboo plays an equal if not bigger role since watching horror movies, taking a ride in a roller coaster and running a marathon are all perfectly acceptable ways of obtaining pleasure through controlled fear or pain.

I think that in order to arouse one, there has to be a certain amount of taboo. I think that there are few people who find pain completely beneficial. I find the initial application of real pain well.. painful. It is later that when it is over that the hurt becomes warm and nice.

I wondered about this myself years ago. I had a woman naked and getting ready to put her into bondage....arousal level estimated at 2-3 on a 1-10 scale. Took a clothes pin and applied it to a nipple...she recoiled and cried out...."that hurt!" ok...later...she's on the floor hogtied and plugged....I'd been fingering her and she was probably 6-7 in arousal....out with the clothes pin again....as the clip closed over her engorged nipple, she moaned...her nostrils flared and she produced more milky goo down below....the clip stayed on for many minutes....no complaints....why the difference?

Now, I am no chemist and sometimes the explanations are a bit over my head, however, I have learned about keeping a person "balanced" you give them a little stimulation....they get aroused.....you give them a little pain....they are ok....keep on with the pain/stimulation and their arousal can become quite high....edging for example for many long minutes....also, pain, whether thru corporal or confinement can be intensified exponentially. with the right woman and the right technique sometimes I can make a woman "FLY" and put her into subspace and she endures extremely high levels of pain and extremely intense and multiple orgasms. It all depends on the balance of the one against the other. Some women are predisposed to higher levels of either input...some none at all....but if you study your partner, you can learn how to use her pain/pleasure thresh holds to have lots of fun.

Your observations are interesting and complex in my case, Rogue. The only pain I enjoy is getting buttock injections from beautiful nurses but it is intense - the more the shots hurt, the greater my thrill - even though I have no fetish about other posterior pain, such as spanking.

My adrenalin rush begins when I make the appointment and increases until I feel about to burst with anxiety by the time she tells me to pull down pants and bend over. When I don't have a medical need for injections I sometimes go to a dominatrix nurse, where I wallow the humiliating form of restraint I so dreaded in my youth - being held across the receptionist's lap.

With regard to satisfaction about giving the nurse pleasure, I once asked if she enjoyed injecting my bottom and she replied, "We're not supposed to admit it" whilst receptionists freely admit that they enjoy watching me get shots back there. I am always excited at the thought of their pleasure but scared when waiting in position at the dominatrix because I know it is her job to make the injections as painful as possible.

I am unfortunately never as genuinely frightened as I was about getting real shots like that in my youth, and particularly adolescence, so I sometimes try to argue with the "nurse" about the injection site for the purpose of making her strict (which she always is) with the result that the receptionist often has to "help me" drop trousers and pull down pants before I bend over her lap. Waiting in that vulnerable position while the receptionist sensually strokes my bare bottom and utters such condescending remarks as, "You know you have to get them; there's nothing you can do about it now," and the dominatrix warning, "Don't worry if you can't sit down for a few days after getting these; it is a normal reaction," increases my apprehension to an incredible level.

Whilst pleasurable pain is the subject of this section, I agree that anticipation is hormonal and the added thrill of embarrassment when I get buttock injections confirms the theory of excitement at giving others pleasure about my pain.