Funishment

Quick meaning: Funishment is a noun meaning (BDSM, countable, uncountable) A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.

Meaning

(BDSM, countable, uncountable) A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.

More Meanings

1. (ethics, uncountable) A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.

Example Sentences

[…] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.

If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”

Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.

I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.

Word Forms

• funishments

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include correction, telishment, punishement, remission, diversion, felonization.

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