20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
1:13 p.m.
Fiona said:
there's something about the thought of pain making someone more beautiful that *does* have disturbing overtones to me. And I also
sometimes
feel as if nobody really questions the concept at all--like it's just assumed that everyone's OK with this.
I think that it has been examined, at least to some degree. And it's a very complex phenomenon--not only is the reader in the position of the sadistic viewer aroused by the spectacle of pain, the reader is also in the masochistic position of "gosh, aren't I brave?" and rewarded by being taken care of.
-(Y)