Fetish Friday: Dacryphilia

This past month has been pretty emotionally exhausting, with a lot of tears shed along the way. Thankfully, there's change coming around the corner, and although I struggle with change sometimes, it always brings good things. Today's fetish will be for those who get off to misery, or rather what accompanies misery.

Today's Fetish: Dacryphilia

Dacryphilia is the sexual attraction toward tears and the strong emotions that elicits these tears, such as anger, fear, sadness, or despair.

From what I could find, there are three ways dacryphiles get off:

1. Sadistic dacryphiles: Mainly found in the BDSM community, these doms enjoy provoking their submissives to tears. They use pain, restrictions, servitude and/or humiliation to evoke these strong emotions.
2. Voyeuristic dacryphiles: Voyeur dacryphiles are more passive as they do not enjoy being the ones to make their subjects cry. They will sometimes join in on dom/sub sessions to enjoy criers.
3. Criers: These last dacryphiles do not derive pleasure from seeing others cry; they are aroused by the act of crying themselves. They see crying as cathartic, liberating, and ultimately, erotic.

But dacryphiles aren't all sadistic, many fetishists are aroused by a sense of need. According to Dr. Mark Griffiths' blog, a dacryphile had this to say about it:

"I definitely have dacryphilia. I get extremely turned on physically and emotionally by crying women. When I see a woman crying, I want to hold and soothe her, make her feel safe and comforted. For that reason I tend to date needy women. I enjoy their vulnerability because of sympathy, not sadism. I also enjoy making them feel better."

As you can see, not all dacryphiles are jerks, just look at Cry Baby. Johnny Depp and his girlfriend were dacryphiles, and nothing that Johnny Depp does could be that horrible, now could it? So go home, pop in The Notebook, listen to some Barcelona, and get freaky. Now, go get your kink on!

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