Addicts Can Now Receive Beating To Release “Happy Horomones”

Struggling with addiction that's related to basically anything except BDSM? Well, one unorthodox method being practiced in Russia will help rid you of your addiction through the power of a good old fashioned caning. 

According to The Daily Mail (link below), the therapy is working wonders on people who have literally tried everything else.

Patients with a range of issues - including sex addicts and workaholics - can now see a counsellor to receive up to 60 lashes on the buttocks with a cane.

The theory is that corporal punishment 'counteracts a lack of enthusiasm for life which is often behind addictions, suicidal tendencies and psychosomatic disorders.'

The treatment has been pioneered by Dr Sergei Speransky, director of Biological Studies at Novosibirsk Institute of Medicine, who admitted undergoing a flogging as an antidote to his own bouts of depression.

He told The Siberian Times: 'Patients see that the treatment is working when everything else has failed.

'It worked for me. I'm not sadistic, at least not in the classical sense - but I do advocate caning.'

So for the low, low price of 3000 roubles (about $75 US dollars), you can go talk to a Russian doctor who will spank you sixty times on the ass (or times times if your addiction isn't anything serious, like alcoholism). Another doctor practicing the method has a very scientific explanation for why it's so successful. 

The treatment works because corporal punishment stimulates the brain to release endorphins - known as 'happiness hormones' - which addicts lack, Professor Chukhrova explained. 

Well, there you have it. 

Via The Daily Mail