The Journal Of The InnKeeper

This is an article taken from Greta Christina's Blog about why she likes pain.  I am linking to it because I want everyone who has not read her work to go to her blog and read her stuff directly.  But I'm also reposting it in full here because it says something to me.  I'm not quite sure if this is the whole and entirety of my feelings on pain, but she raises some answers to the question that I had not previously thought of.  As I commented on her blog:  I have been wondering this very question for a while. When people ask me why I like BDSM, I give the standard answers like "flogging doesn't feel like it looks like it feels" and "endorphins make it feel good", etc.  Because the real answer is "I don't know why, it just does". The pain hurts. It doesn't hurt any less, really, than when someone smacks me on accident at work. But I like it. And I don't know why.  Now I have an inkling why. [Her] words rang a bell in my head. I have more processing to do, but there is at least now a direction to go in.