What Is a Praise Kink—and Why Does Everyone Suddenly Seem to Have One?

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, like other parts of BDSM, but these paddles and whips are likely to be pink and bejeweled–or just as likely to be replaced by feathers and massage.Rose Luna, 23, doesn’t like being called a “filthy slut.” It’s a fine phrase for people who like it!

Just not her thing. Now, being called a “good little slut”—that’s nice. Perfect, actually. “Tell me how pretty I am,” Tori, 28, instructs her partners. “Tell me how much you love it, how much you value it.

How I’m a queen, how I’m a goddess. How I’m just the best thing since sliced bread. How I’m a good girl, that I’m your girl.”Praise kinks are suddenly everywhere on TikTok and other parts of social media.

They’re not some new innovation—the praise dynamic is a longtime mainstay of . It’s just that, recently, people are bowing down to this .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“Praise kink allows someone to explicitly ask for the kinds of positive reinforcement that they crave, in order to feel desire, desired, erotic, sensual, sexual, and/or aroused,” says , a licensed marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, and the author of a significant study on women and kink.How do you know if you have a praise kink, or if you just like praise?