Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

10 reviews

reading_rainbows's review against another edition

This book needs multiple content warnings:  Graphic sexual descriptions in intro and final chapter, eating disorders discussed throughout, body horror especially in chapter 2&3.  There is a content warning before the author specifically discussed their eating disorder, which is way too late. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

vstarlight's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

dmturner's review

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

4.5

Though I have a handful of  piercings, I didn’t do it for the pain, but for the pride. I practice a martial art and have had a lot of success, but I don’t like getting hurt, I like winning. I can endure pain if I have to, but I’d rather not. I read this book genuinely curious about why people might seek out pain, and honestly though I enjoyed reading it very much I don’t feel a whole lot more informed. :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

krisalexcole's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing

theodenreads's review

challenging

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

This book is really informative and interesting, and there's probably so many more things that could be tagged as content warnings, but the ones I tagged are probably the most major ones. Although they're not all consistently touched on in the book, there are passages of this book that are very frank and honest in their discussions of self harm and eating disorders. Please use your best judgment when reading this, friends.

joricottone's review against another edition

emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

lily1304's review

adventurous hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

I ripped through this book so fast. I loved it.
I was worried the author would be a little too flippant, but she is very clear from the outset that "pain on purpose" can be really healthy or unhealthy, and she devotes a chapter to exploring the difference.
My only complaint is that some of her chapters are a little too long, and I wish she had clear citations with a bibliography - but this is pop science, so she gives brief in-text citations.
Massive trigger warning for both BDSM and eating disorders - she gives extremely vivid descriptions of both.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

mateoj's review

adventurous challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

just delightful — vulnerable, honest, informative, and funny. a difficult balance to strike in  journalistic nonfiction, but Hurts So Good does it very well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Excrement, and Medical trauma

meghan_is_reading's review

informative reflective medium-paced

*unhappy grumbles*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm and Vomit

liormaleficent's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail