Reading Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve it strikes me that monasteries and convents must have exerted selective pressures against masochism, at least if the amount of beatings was as much as the book describes.
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Christ! What kind of masochism-levels would we have been looking at without them?
7:19 PM - 16 Jan 2018
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