Domination, Submission and the Adrenaline Trip Let us bring into use animaginaryline as a one dimensional sadomasochistic continuum: with 'minus 100' being the complete masochistic experience of painful death, and 'plus 100' being the complete sadistic experience of cruel murder, 'zero' being the ideal middle in which no visible masochistic or sadistic impulses can be registered.
The ultimate satisfaction of both destructive and selfdestructive
impulses is impossible in the sadomasochistic scenario -
in a nonlethal game, the ultimate sadistic, nor
the ultimate masochistic fulfillmentscan be achieved.
The pain itself is not the goal of the
consensual passive participant -but a tool - the effectiveness of
whichis illusory, but the use of which - compulsory: "...pain and suffering are
not what he wants. pain and sufferingaretheprice he pays for
an aimwhich he compulsively tries to attain.
The price is dear. He has topaymore and more and, like a peon, he onlygets intogreater debt without ever
getting what he has paid for: inner peaceand tranquility". No matter how
much the bar is raised, there is always a point where the humans involved must pull backso that one of
them does not end up crippled or dead. So, intrue Erich Fromm, 'The Fear of Freedom' (1940), p133, ARKPaperbacks 1984
neurotic tradition the ultimate satisfaction cannot be achieved -onlythe pressure canbe built
up further and further, until ideally the orgasm intervenes, substituting itself for the
destruction of the sexual object.
The build upof speed, the frenzy before the climax is a well known phenomenon in the
current sexual culture -but in many 'hardporn' and 'hard sex' situation everything
hangs on a thread: whether it is 'throat banging'. or insertion of
big object or 'fisting', or the tightening of the
scarf on the neck or any other means of decreasing
or cutting off the air supply, whether it is the more frequent and harder
slapping. or burning. or making of cuts with razor- in such situations the increase
of tempo andpressurequickly
speeds the participants towards the +100 and -100destinations and it is the orgasm -orthe
consciouschoice through last chance will power - that averts the catastrophe.
Negativeand Positive Perversity
When Freud uses the terms 'neurosis' and 'hysteria', he means 'negative perversity' -
a state of repressed impulses, usuallyof 'sexual nature', meaning
impulses which canbe given form inanact of
sexual relations, or solitary masturbation. With humans exhibiting negative
perversity, these impulses are not allowed at all
to register on conscious level - and instead of actuallyhaving for example anal sex, or
even masturbatingwhile fantasizing of anal sex, the
human in question would seize up, freeze as last resortof defense against these impulses, and
maybe sometimes explode into violent seizures, ordevelop behavior compulsions which serve
as a complicated disguise. When these impulses are not repressedbeyond consciousthought,
but are given some recognition - when they are given form inthe 'real world' - this Freud
terms 'positive perversity'.