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Pain Is Not Submission: Untangling Sadism, Dominance, Masochism and Submission

Does enjoying pain make you submissive? Does enjoying inflicting it make you Dominant? Not necessarily. In BDSM, the same flogger, the same sensation, and even the same act can mean entirely different things—depending on intention, psychology, and the power dynamic between the people involved.