Academics at the University of Cardiff have published a paper called "Selling Pain to the Saturated Self". The academics have an interesting theory that we crave bodily punishment in an age where so many of us sit around and just use our bodies to put food in and take us from A to B. Coast to Coast event director Richard Ussher is one of those and explains why it might be.
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