A Descriptive Exploration of Flourishing Through Kink

The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance

Status: Completed

Conditions: Impact on Psychological Well-being of Involvement in Kink Behaviors

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06969183

T2024-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study examines the experiences of people who have engaged in alternative sexual behaviors, like kink or BDSM, and whether there have been any positive effects on well-being

Full description

The study design is an observational, cross-sectional mixed methods study with data collected anonymously online via a computer-assisted survey through Qualtrics. Subjects will be recruited through nonprobability snowball sampling

Enrollment: 1,131 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. Age of majority in the legal jurisdiction (geographic location) where the survey is taken (usually age 18) 2. Self-reported involvement in kink behaviors 3. self-reported English-language proficiency sufficient to understand the study instrument.

4. Answer correctly a series of questions to screen for bots and fraudulent responses

Exclusion criteria

• 1. Report no involvement in kink activities or behaviors 2. Answer incorrectly three or more questions for bot detection and fraudulent responses, 3+ out of 4 bot detection questions.

  2. Clearly fraudulent use of the internet survey, such as: evidence of non-human data entry via an internet "bot", duplicative or prank data entry that entails contradictory or clearly fraudulent data.

  3. Any condition that, in the professional judgment of the Principal Investigator, should exclude an individual from participation in the study.