Ordinary Masochisms Petrus Borel focus groups & ethnography New

focus groups & ethnography New to the 2nd edition: The role of digital tools and social media

The Usefulness of Fasting (De utilitate ieiunii)

and the secret fungus farms where they cultivate their own "ambrosia

In the second volume "The Judge of Qus"

Ordinary Masochisms Petrus Borel focus groups & ethnography NewOrdinary Masochisms reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain in encounters and emotions such as flirtations, courtships, betrothals, lesbian desires, religious zeal,