Originally posted by BDSM_Tourguide
Humiliation, when used properly and when not confused with degradation, can be a very powerful tool.
Tourguide, I guess I'm having difficulty understanding the difference between 'humiliating' and 'degrading' in a BDSM context.

In real life, I guess I would say that being picked last for a sandlot team might be 'humiliating' (but not degrading). After all, someone has to be the last one picked and there is no intent to 'humiliate'.

But once intent comes into it, as it would in a BDSM context, I'm puzzled.

Can you cite a few examples of conduct that would be, in your view, humiliating without being degrading?

And I'm curious to know if your response would be the same if those things were done to you -- i.e. that you would not feel 'degraded'.

Grazie,

Boccaccio