NCT06969183

A Descriptive Exploration of Flourishing Through Kink

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,131 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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

Conditions

• Impact on Psychological Well-being of Involvement in Kink Behaviors

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-22
• Primary completion: 2024-10-06
• Completion: 2024-10-06
• First posted: 2025-05-13
• Last updated: 2025-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States