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> There’s an immense mystery at the heart of being human: the paradox of opposing and accepting suffering.

And the whole next paragraph just lacked a point: on how so many people extract pleasure from BDSM, where pain and pleasure (in many, many variants) come together in some controlled environment.

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BDSM is about social hierarchy - dominance and submission. This is completely different from non-social concept of accepting suffering in the short term for a payoff later.

Bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism is what that stands for. You've correctly identified one facet of domination, for some folks.

There's a lot left there which your "BDSM is about social hierarchy" doesn't even begin to address.

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