The Psychology of Fetish and Emotional Power Exchange with Master Arch

About this episode

Master Arch and Dr. Joe Kort discuss the psychological aspects of fetish culture and emotional power exchange.

Master Arch is a fetish worker, pro dom, fetish creator, death escort, and financial fetishist whose work explores the deeper emotional and psychological sides of fetish culture. His work focuses on financial domination, emotional masochism, shame, power exchange, masculinity, vulnerability, and the ways people use erotic experiences to access feelings they may not be able to express anywhere else. In this conversation, Master Arch and Dr. Joe Kort explore the psychology behind fetish, BDSM,...

People in this episode

Host: Dr Joe Kort

Guest: Master Arch

Topics covered

• fetish culture
• BDSM
• emotional power exchange
• psychology of fetish
• financial domination
• masculinity
• vulnerability

Keywords

• fetish
• BDSM
• emotional masochism
• financial domination
• power exchange
• shame
• vulnerability

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