Can I be trained to enjoy pain?

Can pain be trained/taught as a pleasure? I mean I feel pleasure being slapped and spanked, but there is no pain in what I enjoy. I find masochism very arousing but I don't think I could bear a whipping session.

What an excellent question!

To directly answer your question, in my personal opinion (because I could find no answer I felt was definitive), no. I don’t think someone can be truly taught pain as pleasure. I think that some people are wired for it and others aren’t or don’t have an open enough mindset to try it.
I have a few friends with some chronic health problems who are into the BD of BDSM. Having experienced so much pain throughout the course of their life they cannot imagine taking any kind of pleasure from it. For that matter, I know many who are blessed to lack such issues and can’t see ever desiring pain.

I think that pain is something you have some level of interest in prior and I myself came into it through an interest in rough sex and a good teacher. The first guy that I met into pain writhed and made such sexy noises. He was clearly experiencing something utterly the opposite I’d experienced my entire life up until that point in association with pain. Then I read “The Topping Book” and there is a passage in there about a caning scene in a bar (read it, it’s gay and it’s hot) that further altered my perspective.

I think it’s great that you found spanking and slapping as enjoyable impact activities. I would also encourage you to give caning and flogging a try. They’re different types of pain you might also find you enjoy because of (or perhaps in spite of) their intensity. That said, it is a bit surprising you mention whipping. Everyone should have and understand their limits. It is reckless to play without limits and I think whipping is a perfectly acceptable limit to have.

If you do have an interest in whipping, I’d encourage you to go to a dungeon. Find someone doing it and talk to him! If someone who loves whipping speaking passionately in favor of the kink can’t change your mind, then it’s probably not for you! And that’s ok! Whipping is as variable an activity as spankings can be. If I hit you full force on the ass you’ll be pissed at me for not building up because that’s not how spankings are done. Same is true of whipping a lot of the whip play I’ve seen was light marks on very specific areas.

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