Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart! We discuss how much science a book needs to be to count as “pop science,” content warnings for books, BDSM, MRIs, and other acronyms! Plus: How many hot sauces we own!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

The Book We Talked About

• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Other Media We Mentioned

• Nerve - Adventures in the Science of Fear by Eva Holland
• Secretary (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
• Turning by Jessica J. Lee
• Valley Girl by Moon Unit and Frank Zappa
• The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022
• Don't Be Afraid Of The Clowns
• Mary Roach (Wikipedia)
• Frank's RedHot (Wikipedia)
• Gochujang (Wikipedia)
• South Asian pickle (Wikipedia)
• Carolina Reaper (Wikipedia)
• Ultramarathon (Wikipedia)
• Play piercing (Wikipedia)
• Polar bear plunge (Wikipedia)
• Wim Hof (Wikipedia)
• Camino de Santiago (Wikipedia)
• Pain scale (Wikipedia)
• Temperature play (Wikipedia)
• Ocu-less || CheckPoint 407
• K/DA (Wikipedia)
  • More (YouTube)
• Hate-watching (Wikipedia)
• Erotic humiliation (Wikipedia)
• Leather Archives & Museum on Instagram

15 Gardening & Plants Non-fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
• The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen
• Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use by Christi Belcourt
• The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowens
• Wild at Home: How to Style and Care for Beautiful Plants by Hilton Carter
• Luschiim’s Plants: A Hul′q′umi′num′ (Cowichan) Ethnobotany by Luschiim Arvid Charlie
• The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family by Darryl Cheng
• The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity by E. Barrie Kavasch
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
• Lessons from Plants by Beronda L Montgomery
• American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America by Michelle Obama
• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
• Grow: A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them by Riz Reyes
• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies/Biographical Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, October 18th we’ll be talking about the concept of Hate Reads.