“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Lord Byron
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First used to describe the bad habit of serial stabbers in the 18th Century, the term Piquerism has now become known in the BDSM world as a liking for acute and pointy sensations as well as cuts coming from nails, knifes, needles, Wartenberg wheels or any other sharp things.