ciphergoth comments on Is masochism necessary? - Less Wrong

8 Post author: PhilGoetz 10 April 2009 11:48PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 April 2009 12:39:44AM 1 point [-]

You say it's extremely unlikely to be right. How do you know?

Comment author: ciphergoth 12 April 2009 11:27:22AM 3 points [-]

The "very unlikely" theory is the model by which an awful lot of people interpret the existence of sexual variation. See for example this dictionary definition of the word fetish against which I'm not a fetishist, which would seem like a rather counterintuitive conclusion. Or consider the standard diagnostic manual for mental illness in the United States, the DSM, which AFAICT uses the same model to discuss my "disorder".