How Kink Can Be Used to Help Your Mental Health
It’s a common (and messed up) misconception that people who like kink are somehow mentally ill or deranged. This is simply sex-negative nonsense spoon-fed to us by our puritanical culture. BDSM, or bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, is a perfectly normal thing to be into. All kink is normal, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult.
Frankly, it’s not really anyone’s business what happens sexually between consenting adults, so I don’t know why we’re so obsessed with trying to police it.
Studies have shown that people who engage in kink are not mentally ill. Most recently, a 2020 study published in the