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Hurts So Good
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose | Leigh Cowart
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An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners, to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers. Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, (…more)
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keithmalek
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...make a person pass out.

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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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This explores why people consent to experience pain. It takes the science of pain and correlates it with a variety of intentional experiences from ballet class to eating wildly hot chili peppers, ultramarathons, and yes, BDSM. Cowart is unafraid to expose their own kinks, combining scholarship with intimate reveals and plenty of f-bombs. Fascinating! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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keithmalek It must be insulting to any marathon runner to hear that it's only ultramarathons that are painful. 3y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @keithmalek HAH! Never thought about that! But all pain is relative. For me running a mile would be excruciating! 3y
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