no pain, no gain: a brief look at religious self flagellation /

In preceding blogs,I have looked at various aspects of sexually masochistic behaviour. However, some masochistic behaviours have devout (rather than sexual) motivations. Many people’s first awareness of devout masochism might have been Paul Bettany’s portrayal of the self-flagellating albino Catholic monk (Silas) in The Da Vinci Code film (based on Dan Brown’s bestseller). Silas […]

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