Pain Slut vs Masochist

I believe there is a difference between being a pain slut and being a masochist. I believe you can be both, one or the other, or neither. Or perhaps even something else all together.

There are times when I am being flogged, paddled, or caned, where I am feeling pain but wanting the session and/or I'm just trying to endure it for my Dominant. I feel the pain. It hurts and then turns to pleasure. The pain hurts - and as it continues, each stroke or whack turns to pleasure. I then want and crave the pain so the pleasure keeps building. I crave to feel the pleasure I get from the pain. I become a slut for the pain. So, I believe that is a pain slut. A pain slut takes the pain and turns it into great, intense pleasure and becomes a slut for that pleasure.

I am masochist as well as a pain slut. I believe a masochist craves pain and wants to feel it- the pain. As a masochist, I want to feel as each lash of the flogger hits me, each stinging strike of the cane, each hard thud of the heavy paddle. I want to feel the pain pound through me each time the implement strikes my flesh. I want to feel the pain.

I feel the pain, crave the pain and need it. I don't believe I get pleasure from it  because I suffer and I enjoy that suffering. I am sure it would be hard to tell I am enjoying suffering, it would probably appear that I am in pain.

So my definitions are a pain slut turns the pain into pleasure and then wants that pleasure derived from pain. A masochist craves to feel the pain, but pain for its own sake.