“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Lord Byron
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.
“Masochism, in its eccentric eroticism, makes explicit what most contemporary asceticism merely hints at: the affirmation of the body’s frailty as a gateway to intense pleasure.”
― Anita Phillips, A Defence of Masochism.
Sado-masochism is at the center of Queen Sensoria‘s practice. The Queen approaches her field as an art form, where both sadist and masochist are artists; one by inspiring awe and inflicting well-dosed, minute climaxes of suffering; the other by letting themselves be inspired and raptured to a point of sublimation of pain into pleasure.