As pointed out by a brand new study, people who engage in kinky sexual practices involving such things as bondage and sadomasochism may actually be more mentally healthy than those who don’t. So here is a question. What are you waiting for? BDSM is an umbrella term that mainly bridges bondage and discipline with sadism and masochism. Usually, interestingly, BDSM is listed in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that is often called the psychiatrist’s bible. In the new study, published recently in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers had 902 BDSM and 434 nonBDSM, or vanilla, participants fill out questionnaires.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, BDSM practitioners who often played the dominant role in their sexual acts scored highest across the board, compared with submissives and switches. Even the submissives, who scored lowest out of those three groups, still frequently scored higher than vanilla participants on the mental health surveys. Now look, the new results reveal that on a basic level, BDSM practitioners don’t appear to be more troubled than the general population. They have been also less neurotic, a personality trait marked by anxiety, They were more extroverted, more open to new experiences and more conscientious than vanilla participants.