Welcome back to the peripheral for this episode. I figured we'd change it up a little bit,

something a little bit more, oh, I don't know if you want to call it lighthearted, but something

different. I do have some pretty heavy topics coming up, so it's always nice to get a little

reprieve. This episode should have been out a long time ago,

so apologies to my guest,

but I did have a lot of audio difficulties and problems.

And special thanks to Shane at Arclight Media

for helping salvage this entire episode.

The audio still isn't the best, but I think it's good enough.

So please forgive some of the audio dropouts and the quality.

I think the first couple minutes are the worst, and then it seems to get better after that.

So on today's episode, I speak with Katie, who is a masochist.

And if you don't know what that is, the textbook definition of masochism

is the enjoyment of what appears to be painful or the tendency to drive pleasure,

especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.

Obviously, there's a lot more aspects to this and different desirable kinks.

So I'll let Katie explain it better than I ever could.

All right. Go ahead and introduce yourself.

My name is Katie, and I'm going to talk about masochism and how I, my road to figuring out that I'm going to miss.

So you wanted to talk about this because I guess most people's understanding, most people's view on it is what we see in TV shows and

movies. And as we all know, TV shows and movies get everything wrong, right?

They get it very wrong. And I just wanted to talk about it because figuring out that this is what I was

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