To each his suff'rings

From: The Spectator | Date: April 25, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

A DEFENCE OF MASOCHISM by Anita Phillips Faber, L9.99, pp. 307

It is not easy to envisage the readership at which Anita Phillips is aiming in A Defence of Masochism, for it would take more than her slim volume to persuade many people of the positive benefits of this perverse behaviour, reinterpreted though it is by Phillips. The liberal-minded, noninterferers of this world (among whom your reviewer would wish to be counted) need no convincing that people may do as they wish in private, bearing in mind that one man's meat may well be another's poison. Perhaps some analysts or psychotherapists ...

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