khafra comments on Is masochism necessary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 April 2011 02:35:41AM 0 points [-]

stimulating someone by lightly running knife blades across their skin without cutting them.

Does that hurt? With particularly sharp instruments even actually cutting yourself doesn't necessarily hurt straight away.

Comment author: khafra 13 April 2011 03:04:04PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't if you're not afraid, but fear and pain are highly interrelated and both have proximal places on the BDSM spectrum.