Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Abstract
Why do people willfully expose themselves to physical pain? How does pain become a
positive experience? Investigating these questions in the extremely different areas of
religion and sexual practice demonstrates commonalities in the application of a general
affective mechanism involved in the rendering of pain. Identity, practice, and institution
share a frame that is so powerful that we take this contextual interconnection for granted
and generally overlook similarities of affective mechanisms in religion and sexuality.
abstract = "Why do people willfully expose themselves to physical pain? How does pain become a positive experience? Investigating these questions in the extremely different areas of religion and sexual practice demonstrates commonalities in the application of a general affective mechanism involved in the rendering of pain. Identity, practice, and institution share a frame that is so powerful that we take this contextual interconnection for granted and generally overlook similarities of affective mechanisms in religion and sexuality.",
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - The Rhytm of the Whip
AU - Schneider, Andreas
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Why do people willfully expose themselves to physical pain? How does pain become a
positive experience? Investigating these questions in the extremely different areas of
religion and sexual practice demonstrates commonalities in the application of a general
affective mechanism involved in the rendering of pain. Identity, practice, and institution
share a frame that is so powerful that we take this contextual interconnection for granted
and generally overlook similarities of affective mechanisms in religion and sexuality.
AB - Why do people willfully expose themselves to physical pain? How does pain become a
positive experience? Investigating these questions in the extremely different areas of
religion and sexual practice demonstrates commonalities in the application of a general
affective mechanism involved in the rendering of pain. Identity, practice, and institution
share a frame that is so powerful that we take this contextual interconnection for granted
and generally overlook similarities of affective mechanisms in religion and sexuality.