JulianMorrison 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: JulianMorrison 13 April 2009 12:34:31AM -1 points [-]

Sounds ripe for self-experimentation. How curious are you? ;-D