{"id":41314,"date":"2008-08-08T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T00:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41314"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:28:39","slug":"my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/","title":{"rendered":"My BDSM friend finds physical life too subtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who takes a combination of prescribed medication that has taken away his sex drive the past several years, and he\u2019s into unconventional sex. I wrote to him:\u00a0 When I was meditating today, I had a thought.\u00a0 We meditate to bring ourselves to a stillpoint several times a day, in order to refine our perception and enable us to grasp the more subtle nuances of sensory input via our neuro physical makeup.\u00a0 The more we are able to bring ourselves to a place of detachment from external stimulation, the more subtly our nervous system will become attuned to respond to the nonphysical environment around us.\u00a0\u00a0 If someone is\u00a0in a habit of bombarding themselves with ever increasing modes of external stimulation, they are likely to lose the subtleties entirely and that could keep them from reaching certain altered states of consciousness.\u00a0 Since they likely find physical life too subtle and that is why they seek more and more stimulation.\u00a0\u00a0 So just think of that anytime you feel you need to tie someone up or spank them in order to feel pleasure \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=My BDSM friend finds physical life too subtle&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=My%20BDSM%20friend%20finds%20physical%20life%20too%20subtle&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-bdsm-friend-finds-physical-life-too-subtle\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who takes a combination of prescribed medication that has taken away his sex drive the past several years, and he\u2019s into unconventional sex. I wrote to him:\u00a0 When I was meditating today, I had a thought.\u00a0 We meditate to bring ourselves to a stillpoint several times a day, in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41315,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions\/41315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}