Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

I don't view sensitivity as innately superior to other attitudes.



If you mean masochism in the sexual sense; that can be manifested in a few ways.

If we take masochism as humiliation, isn't that about the spectacle of humiliation? Even if it's taking place in a private, personal setting or situation, the masochist has internalized attitudes towards this behavior which allow them to feel humiliation.

Masochism & self mutilation just strikes me as a secular form of Christianity and the bizarre ways that religion has manifested repentance. As far as my feelings on repentance in general, Montaigne's similarly named essay (link) says it all better than I can.



In that past I took courses in psychology, which I found to be essentially useless. The college areas of study I found most valuable were literature & anthropology.