BDSM is unhealthy!?!?!?!?

[fetishdj]

Yep... it is still seen as a 'mental pathology' to have any form of fetish or BDSM related desires. Paraphillias is the technical term.

There is hope, however... these things are always being modified as times change and recently in Sweden it was taken off the list of pathologies. In the 1970s it was considered a pathology to be homosexual and that was soon changed. Mind you, they have a better union than we do...

[shyslut]

bdsm or paraphilia etc. Are only bad or a mental pathology IF they have negatively impaired functioning for 6 MONTHS or more.

For a therapist to just say oh thats bad without asking how it impacts you is bad.

Also even if a therapist cant get past there negative connotation Ive had success in the past explaining participation in bdsm as a crutch. As in I know it can be bad but its good for me right now and Im not ready to replace it with something else. Of course its not really a crutch and its not really something that can be replaced wholesale. But saying it that way lets them know how important and supportive it is to you.