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Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
11 reviews
daniellekat's review
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Self harm
vstarlight's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail
francosteen's review
4.5
A look at masochism in so many different forms, where you can truly see that many of us engage with it in various ways ourselves.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Sexual content
krisalexcole's review against another edition
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
5.0
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.yilliun's review
I initially really enjoyed her writing, but as it progressed it felt somewhat juvenile to me. It was more technical than I was expecting in medical terms.
I mostly DNF’d this because of the graphic medical content.
Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Medical content
lily1304's review
4.75
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.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
mateoj's review
5.0
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
Graphic: Body horror and Blood
Moderate: Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Self harm and Vomit
keylime3_14's review
4.5
Moderate: Body horror, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, and Dysphoria
Minor: Addiction