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I was talking about "masochism" over the weekend and realized I'd been incorrectly using it as a synonym with exhibitionism.

Then I started questioning these experiments I'm doing. I had been comparing my work to other famed performance artists (not comparing in an on-their-level way, but more of an influential/research-based way), but it technically can't be classified as masochism because there is no pleasure involved? Is pleasure derived from art? From the audience or the performer?

I suppose it doesn't matter because the outcome is the same but I was just interested to learn the true meaning of the word.