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>>Eating really spicy food is a form of culinary masochism after all. >Not if you like it. Masochism means pleasure from pain.

• coldtea 10y ago
  Well, those who like it don't approach it as "pain", but as a strong nice feeling on the tongue, that is the point is not some pain (painful is how it feels to those who can't take it), but the taste. It's not like they would just as well overly acidic food (which would also be "pain" on the tongue) or overly hot (in temperature) food, etc, as "masochists". It's the taste of the spice, not the pain.
  • zhemao 10y ago
    The taste of spice is pain. Capsaicin triggers your tongue's pain receptors, not its olfactory receptors.
  • o_____________o 10y ago
    Love for pain is learned. Think of what you would learn from both of the examples you cited.