Does anyone know of any actual case of a sexual masochist having been produced by learning/training/conditioning in which the person definitely was not a masochist to start with? (Begs the question of how, exactly, they ended up undergoing the said conditioning...)
Actually, it raises another question, which is, how can you establish that a person was “definitely not a masochist to start with”? After all, if you’ve never tried it, how would you know?
Does it count if the person was curious before you brought up the subject? Expressed an interest in trying it after you brought it up? Had prior rape fantasies?
How would you consider the analagous situation, where somebody’s never tried a spicy food before? How do you know they’re not already predisposed to like or dislike spiciness?
It might be more useful to ask, can you increase a person’s sexual response to pain through learning and conditioning… but of course the answer to that is not just yes, but hell yes. (Same for sexual response to sadism—many people learn to become aroused as dominants or sadists simply through repeated exposure to their partner’s arousal and happiness as the recipient of their attentions.)
Actually, it raises another question, which is, how can you establish that a person was “definitely not a masochist to start with”? After all, if you’ve never tried it, how would you know?
Does it count if the person was curious before you brought up the subject? Expressed an interest in trying it after you brought it up? Had prior rape fantasies?
How would you consider the analagous situation, where somebody’s never tried a spicy food before? How do you know they’re not already predisposed to like or dislike spiciness?
It might be more useful to ask, can you increase a person’s sexual response to pain through learning and conditioning… but of course the answer to that is not just yes, but hell yes. (Same for sexual response to sadism—many people learn to become aroused as dominants or sadists simply through repeated exposure to their partner’s arousal and happiness as the recipient of their attentions.)