Spanking Is Good For You?

GuanYin

From News-Medical.Net

From news-medical.net wrote:

Russian scientists at the Novosibirsk Institute of Medicine are claiming a beating on the naked buttocks with a cane is the perfect way to cure everything from depression to alcoholism.
The researchers say caning releases endorphins, the body's natural 'happy chemicals', and that leads to feelings of euphoria, a reduction of appetite, the release of sex hormones and an enhancement of the immune response, and they have a similar effect on pain as drugs such as morphine and codeine, but do not lead to addiction or dependence.

Biologist Dr Sergei Speransky who led the research claims corporal punishment, similar to that doled out regularly in British schools in the last century, helps people overcome addiction and depression. He confirms he is not a sadist even though he recommends caning and says the treatment works. A standard treatment course entails 30 sessions with 60 of the best, delivered on the buttocks by a person of average build.

Dr Marina Chuhrova who also took part in preparing the report said she had 10 patients she caned regularly and though initially "they didn't like it, when they started to feel the benefits they kept asking for more."

The Russian team says they are now charging for the caning sessions and are getting over U.S.$ 100 per patient for a standard treatment.

There is something for all you S&M-ers. I guess it goes some way to explaining why people get off on pain.

DrIndy

Sounds interesting! However, it would require more validation before you could recommend that in outpatient departments in Ireland! :eek:

GuanYin

I propose a clinical trial!!!!

Gilgamesh

psi wrote:

I propose a clinical trial!!!!

does that mean with a sterile Cane

GuanYin

Gilgamesh wrote:

does that mean with a sterile Cane

If thats what does it for you.

D

psi wrote:

If thats what does it for you.

ooh harder!

DrIndy

psi wrote:

I propose a clinical trial!!!!

I agree - although a double blinded placebo controlled trial is difficult unless the clinician is wearing a blindfold and another part of their anatomy is spanked.

However, we will do our best.

Any volunteers? Please append your interest below and we will undertake this research at the next Boards Beer.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.causeof.org/endorphins.htm
Endorphins are alledgedly released by
* overexposure to light
* all pain, including eating spicy foods;
* masochism
* laughter and stress;
* sexual activity;
* exercise;
* Sugar rush
* chocolate sweetened by aspartame may produce more endorphins than chocolate sweetened with sugar.
( Not to mention all the other feel good chemicals in chocolate )
* Acupuncture
* Crying
* Tickling and Laughing
* "Calming" music
* Drums
* Transcendental Meditation, Mantras, Chants
* Sound, vibration
* Shower massagers
* Stimulating the erogenous zones, including the ear,
* Massaging the scalp ( washing or brushing your hair may also increase endorphin levels )
* Stimulation of Under the arm, the ball of the foot

Conversely, a greater presence in the brain of opiate neurotransmitters such as endorphins, the less the frequency of yawns. - I suppose you could see how susceptible the canees are to induced yawning, it's measurable !

So staring at a bright monitor while listening to loud music and eating lost of sweet chocolate with the ocassional chilli while sitting on a massager with your feet in a vibrating foot bath might be the thing to do while you book a course ..

www.geocities.com/kidhistory/trauma/tears.htm

Jante Yassen, a Boston area social worker who leads groups for incest survivor, talks of the necessity of at least "1500 hours of crying" to get over the hurts of incest.

so I suppose there are other ways to benefit from pain, but could physical pain trigger off a cathartic reaction ?

Victor

I think the might be misguided, but have some basis in truth.

Stimulation of any kinda can have a positive effect. Before one is pained*, one feels nothing. We do not fully appreciate having something until we can apprecriate not having it (with many things we can extend our empathy, but not all - we can appreciate it's not good to be a homeless drug addict, without being a homeless drug addict).

I think there are studies out there that say the mother-baby bond is weaker in caesarian cases, that the pain of giving birth creates a response in both.

In our sedentiary, complacent lives, the absense of pain and need means we don't use our bodies 100%. Perhaps the pain re-awakens part of us?

*One has to differentiate between pain (a stimulus) and hurt (a result).

aku0000

i think i depends on who's doing the spanking. gigidy gigidy gigidy... oh yeah

r3boot

any proof that endorphins work???
If so how well?
and where on?
They might bo good for yuor psyche but what about the rest of the body ?

edit: just answered my own questions

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