Article: Kinky Sex Could Be the Secret to Your Success

“Many successful visionaries throughout history, from artists to scientists and even politicians, have had well-documented kinks and fetishes that affected how they operated in their daily lives.

A wave of recent research has confirmed this: If it’s something

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Article: Can kinky sex make you more creative? Researchers claim BDSM can help people achieve ‘altered states of consciousness’

According to the researchers, ‘topping’ is linked to the state which aligned with Csikszentmihalyi’s flow, while ‘bottoming’ is associated with both Dietrich’s transient hypofrontality and some aspects of flow.

The team says these activities also reduced stress and negative affect

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This Kind of Sex Can Create an Altered Mental State

Article: This Kind of Sex Can Create an Altered Mental State (Time.com)

Aside from the ad for the new 50 Shades movie at the top, I also have a criticism about:

“The researchers randomly assigned a person in each pair

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The New Yoga? Sadomasochism Leads to Altered States, Study Finds

Not a very in-depth article, but it offers some possible insight to “flow” and “subspace”:

http://m.livescience.com/43502-sadomasochism-mind-alteration.html

(written by Stephanie Pappas)