This question randomly popped into my head some time ago. I haven’t really found anything on Wikipedia relating to masochism outside of sex, but since sadism can be non-sexual, why could masochism be too?

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    Absolutely. It could be argued that religious self-flagellation would fall under this category of non-sexual masochism.

    • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      As a Linux user (btw) let me tell you, if anyone is masochistic it’s us. The amount of times I’ve gotten sidetracked for an hour fixing a problem that would be a non-issue on Windows is kind of depressing when assessed as a whole