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Disgust Sensitivity, Sexual Beliefs and Orientation to Social Domination in Female BDSM and Non-BDSM Practitioners

Individual differences between BDSM practitioners and non-practitioners are mostly operationalized through Big five or clinical personality models. We take different approach and explore other, theoretically relevant, constructs: disgust sensitivity, sexual beliefs, and orientation to social domination. Assumptions for the research we find in the work of McCarey (1973, Moser, 1999), who suggests that BDSM engagement is associated with sexual disgust sensitivity, and in the work of Jozifkova et all. (2012), who theorize that rank disparity between partners is related to sexual excitement. On-line survey was made with 209 female participants (33 BDSM practitioners). Measures were The Three Domains of Disgust Scale, Social Dominance Orientation Scale, Men Should Dominate Scale, and Women Should Dominate Scale. BDSM practitioners report lower sexual disgust sensitivity.Groups don`t differ in both social dominance orientation support and their beliefs regarding both men and women sexual dominance. Intragroup difference exists for BDSM group on the beliefs of men sexual dominance. Correlations analysis suggest possibly stronger positive relation between beliefs on women sexual dominance and group based dominance for the BDSM group. Sexual disgust sensitivity in this group is positively correlated with both beliefs on men and women sexual dominance. Results don`t support McCarey´s disgust hypothesis. Interpersonal and group rank disparity needs to be researched together with the sexual disgust sensitivity in the BDSM group.

BDSM, sexual disgust, orientation to social domination, sexual dominance

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