Healing Pain With Pain

When BDSM became my remedy

Ena Dahl
Sexography
Published in
7 min readOct 23, 2019

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— Woman leaves verbally abusive marriage; finds refuge in sexual domination and spanking.

Any psychotherapist would surely have a lot of fun with me.

But I don’t need someone to tell me about my daddy issues. I know all about my daddy issues

That’s how I plan to open my first stand-up comedy set (TBA). Because I do see the obvious irony in my story: Why the hell would someone, especially after living through years of emotional abuse, decide to nosedive into the world of BDSM and willingly let themselves be beaten blue?

I use the term nosedive because I didn’t exactly dip my toes in. I went deep. Real deep.

— How deep? you ask.

I burned myself in my own flame

The time I let myself be tied by the wrists to the ceiling of a dungeon, whipped bloody, electrocuted, and literally lit on fire by an ex-military interrogator (from a country I won’t mention, but one that isn’t known for sending their hostages home with their heads still attached) might deserve a story of its own…

— That’s how deep.

I’m aware of how it sounds

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Ena Dahl
Sexography

Multidisciplinary creatrix; conscious kink & sensuality coach, educator, author, energy worker & rope (s)witch.