As someone with the chronic pain of fibromyalgia for well over a decade now, I really thought I knew what pain was. Pain was bad.
Whether it was a broken heart or a broken bone — it was just bad. Not particularly complicated, right? But wait… how does that explain people who claim to love the agony of exercise, the gut-punch of massive rollercoasters, or even the myriad of ways pain and pleasure are intertwined in sex?
Everyone’s experience of pain, good or bad, is different — but it seems like there are a few specific things that distinguish the kind of pain we enjoy from the kind we don’t.
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