Many scenarios may give rise to sexual humiliation.
She is stripped naked, hung upside down and whipped while a master who is roleplaying a devil forces himself on her. The erotic humiliation of a woman is performed at Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival, Germany, 2014. They invest specific acts, objects, or body parts with a humiliating aspect. Rather, it is semiotically charged by the shared attitude of the partners engaged in the act. The humiliation is not intrinsic to the act or the object. It can also be for a set period of time (a " scene") or an ongoing facet of a relationship. It can be as basic as the desire to kiss and massage feet as a precursor to sex and it can be complex, involving roleplay and public displays of subservience. Humiliation therefore encompasses a range of paraphilia, including foot fetish, breast fetish, shoe fetish, body worship, spanking, cum shots, peotomy, bondage, and most BDSM styles. For example, being spanked is primarily valued because of the belittlement involved. Humiliation comes into its own as a sexual force when the recipient seeks the humiliation over and above means. The recipient does not necessarily seek to be ordered about. While elements of erotic humiliation may be part of a number of domination and submission-based activities, humiliation is not the same as submission.
The most common name for the individual being humiliated is the bottom, and the opposite individual who humiliates the bottom is often called the top. Erotic humiliation can become extreme enough to be considered a form of edgeplay, which some consider may best be approached with advance negotiation and use of a safeword.Ī nude female submissive cleans her male dominant's shoe by licking it, on a public road in USA, 2012. Humiliation play can, however, be taken to a point where it becomes emotionally or psychologically distressing to one or the other partner, especially if it is public humiliation. While fantasy and fascination with erotic humiliation is a prevalent part of BDSM and other sexual roleplay, relatively little has been written on it. Humiliation can become ritualized, and unlike some sexual variations, it can also be easily carried out over a long distance (such as online). Select individuals who desire this form of humiliation also use it to acquire emotional release. A classic technique that can be used to put the submissive into a bottom mind space is to humiliate them while also providing them with sexual stimulation. Some individuals assume an acting role and others prefer to be spoken to in a degrading way. Usually there is a feeling of submission for the person being humiliated and dominance for the person implementing the humiliation.Įrotic humiliation can be done verbally, physically, or both, and can be either private or public. It does not need to be sexual in nature as with many other sexual activities, it is the feelings that are obtained from the experience that are desired, regardless of the nature of the actual activity. Humiliation is a subjective issue and is dependent on context. It may be part of BDSM and other sexual roleplay, or accompanied by the sexual stimulation of the genitals (or other erotic region) of one or both parties in the activity. It is sometimes performed before spectators, including pornography and webcam viewers. This can be for either the person(s) being humiliated and demeaned or the person(s) humiliating, or both. Humiliation of a man being forced to kneel and hold a dominatrix's purse with his mouth while being caned at Folsom Street Fair in USA.Įrotic humiliation is consensual psychological humiliation performed in order to produce erotic excitement or sexual arousal.