JoshuaZ comments on Is masochism necessary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 April 2009 10:21:45PM 2 points [-]

Does anyone know of any actual case of a sexual masochist having been produced by learning/training/conditioning in which the person definitely was not a masochist to start with? (Begs the question of how, exactly, they ended up undergoing the said conditioning...)

Comment author: JoshuaZ 13 April 2011 02:37:23AM 0 points [-]

It might be possible to get people who don't self-identify as masochists to volunteer for such a test. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult to distinguish the actual non-masochists and the people who have weak tendencies in that regard.