BDSM practitioners prefer functions that fit their characters.

A study that is recent the emotional profile of BDSM (bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism) professionals has drawn a lot of news attention, with headlines proclaiming that “S&M professionals are healthy much less neurotic compared to those by having a tamer sex-life.” The authors of the study argued that practitioners are generally psychologically healthy, if not more so in some respects, compared to the general population although BDSM has often in the past been thought to be associated with psychopathology.