Cutting and Kink: Examining Self-Injurious Behavior, Kinky Erotic Play & Body Modification with Lee Harrington co-researched with Morpheus NYC.

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Cutting and Kink: Examining Self-Injurious Behavior, Kinky Erotic Play & Body Modification with Lee Harrington co-researched with Morpheus NYC

Speaker Disclosure: I have no relevant financial relationships or affiliations to disclose. or affiliations to disclose. Washington University April 1, 2014 St. Louis, MO

Literary Perspectives “Just because there is a culture that supports something doesn’t mean it’s healthy,” says SAFE’s Karen Conterio. “In my opinion, reclaiming one’s body by mutilating it is pathological.” - Marilee Strong, “A Bright Red Scream” There are many possible reasons why a person can fuse pain with pleasure, perhaps not very different from those who fuse violence or inflict cruelty upon others with pleasure. -Steven Levenkron, “Cutting”

Additional Literary Perspectives Uglification [including dyeing their hair pink or green, wearing head-to-toe black with clunky shoes, nose rings, and belly button rings], in our view, is an unconscious effort by young people to protect themselves against premature sexuality. Self-Injury is a pathological extreme of this. - Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader, PhD, “Bodily Harm” When someone decides to pierce or tattoo their a part of his or her body, he or she feels pain, and dislikes it. - Steven Levenkron, “Cutting”

Other Voices 5,000 years of Body Modification Over 100 years of modern consensual BDSM/Kink …and numerous touching transformation stories of how BDSM/Kink or Body Modification had positively transformed not only their Self-injurious practices, but multiple areas of their lives

Definitions Self Injury: Self-Injury is any behavior pattern that damages, harms, or inflicts extreme sensation to one's body as a conscious or unconscious response to some form of emotional or mental distress. BDSM/Kink: BDSM is consensual, aware and intentional bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism; Kink is defined as consensual, aware and intentional BDSM, fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, role playing, sensory play and other adventurous sexual exploration Body Modification: Body Modification is consensual, aware and intentional permanent or semi-permanent altering of the human body for non-medical reasons including aesthetics, sexual enhancement; rites of passage; denoting affiliation; religious/mystical reasons; shock value; and self-expression.

Round 1 Survey Initial Call: Posted call for individuals to be surveyed for preliminary exploratory survey. 25 applicants, 10 chosen for representational demographics of overall applicants. Survey Length: Survey contained 341 Questions, 26 of which were essay questions. All others were multiple choice or short answer (i.e. age). If a respondent was only involved in BDSM/Kink *or* Body Modification (not both), their survey contained 227 questions. Participants: 10 digitally recorded phone interviews in total (and 11 surveys) were conducted, with 10 participants. Length: Recorded interviews ranged in length from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours.

Demographics 10/11 Participants from across North America Ages Females, 2 Males and 2 FtMs 11/11 involved with BDSM/Kink 9/11 involved with Body Modification 8/11 had been sexually traumatized or abused 9/11 had been physically, emotionally or psychologically traumatized or abused

When not engaging in it…

Perceptions and Masking

More likely to Self-Injure?

Frequency and Severity

Safer Methods

Overall Health

Therapist Reactions/Awareness

Medications, Kink and BodyMod

Contracts, Control and D/s

Therapeutic Kink and Body Mod

Marks and Scars

Transformational BDSM/Kink

Transformational BodyMod

Helping Your Clients General concepts Open-ended questions Things to watch out for Resources on Self-Injury Resources on BDSM/Kink Resources on Body Modification

Next Project Phases Seeking Interested Parties to take over the project Information: Collect information and feedback from survey participants, presentation attendees, and others Clarify: confusing questions and definitions User friendliness: Make survey more user friendly with “skippable” sections and “additional comments” boxes Oversight: Work with CARAS (Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities) and university bodies for oversight and review Avoiding Harm: Find ways to avoid causing harm to interviewees triggered by reading about self-injury Large scale distribution Additional interviews Publication

How you can help Look for interested researchers Help find grants or other funding sources Provide access to surveys or other materials we may not have Connections with having our survey results published Publicize the survey when it goes out A warm smile and your support

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