Perhaps, but the costs in this case outweigh the benefits. 
Turncoat stated: source post
They're both good in their own ways. Why go for only one?
I've seen you speak at length about your interest in masochism and how you like to tinker with and analyze the psychology of people, but I haven't seen you talk much about enjoying other people getting physically hurt. Hence why I wondered if and why you'd limit yourself to only the subtle form of sadism.
If you had the opportunity to torture people (think medieval torture dungeons and too much free time) would that interest you? Would it disgust you?
I think I'd like it, but that sort of opportunity doesn't really come up. It's easy enough to find/condition people into enjoying the act of dishing out pain, but it's much more difficult to find acceptable means of being able to do it to others myself. The desire to harm another is more natural than the desire to receive harm.
Physical pain is pleasurable to you, yet you seem to enjoy other peoples' emotional/psychological suffering more. Why go for the subtler form (as you state) when you can have something raw and more powerful?
They're both good in their own ways. Why go for only one?
Inquirer stated: source post
Hence why I wondered if and why you'd limit yourself to only the subtle form of sadism.
The more blatant form I have less experience with, and it's something I've spent most of my life not exactly being proud of. Masochism and emotional sadism are easier for PR, but getting my jollies from another's physical suffering isn't really an easy thing to explain without a consensual pincushion to play with.
I have been slowly coming more to terms with it over the past few years, but it's still not really a comfort zone. This place has helped me with that somewhat, while conditioning other people to accept their own sadism has made it easier for me to accept my own. There was a time that I handled the masochism with a similar sense of confusion and worry, but that one was a comparatively easier learning curve. I've had a few chances to play with my sadistic ideations in a physical way, but for the most part my bringing this part of myself up with people tends to scare them and lead to some elements of distancing. Sadism seems dangerous to them while masochism is just quirky and strange.
My understanding of the sadistic mindset however has made it that much easier to recognize others who have similar tendencies and help them embrace it by letting myself be the target, but I haven't really found someone who could offer me that same grace in quite the same way.
Inquirer stated: source post
Turncoat stated: source post
They're both good in their own ways. Why go for only one?
I've seen you speak at length about your interest in masochism and how you like to tinker with and analyze the psychology of people, but I haven't seen you talk much about enjoying other people getting physically hurt. Hence why I wondered if and why you'd limit yourself to only the subtle form of sadism.
When Turncoat and I first met, he didn't appear to have explored his sadism at all, and didn't even seem entirely sure that it was something he would like. Since then there has been some experimentation, but as I'm not a masochist, it's been quite limited. The lack of experience only leaves so much to talk about, I'm sure.