Hurts So Good by Leigh Cowart

Hurts So Good by Leigh Cowart

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An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain for pleasure--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners, to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers.

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Hurts So Good by Leigh Cowart

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain for pleasure--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners, to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers.
Leigh Cowart is a researcher and journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed News, Hazlitt, Longreads, Vice, and other outlets. Before becoming a journalist, Cowart was immersed in academia, doing research on subjects like sexual dimorphism in leaf-nosed bats, and resource allocation in flowers. They live in Asheville, NC.
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ISBN 13 9781541798038
ISBN 10 1541798031
Title Hurts So Good
Author Leigh Cowart
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published 2023-08-03
Number of pages 256
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