Lastly, I have developed a perhaps unhealthy desire to be tied up, threatened, and cut with knives. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm genuinely lost in this new world. I'd really value your input. Accept those things that make you different and unique.
Many men do have some sort of fantasy of being able to accept pain or torture.
Indeed, the ability to bear pain could be considered macho or manly. Professional sports such as baseball, basketball, football, soccer, boxing, and hockey all require the participants to meet pain bravely, to fight through it in order to gain victory. In television and blockbuster Hollywood movies, heroes have to overcome all sorts of agony, including a prolonged fight to the death with the bad guy. These fights usually show the good guy taking quite a beating before overcoming the odds. With all of the media and societal hype over the battered hero, it would seem natural that men would harbor secret fantasies of enduring torture to prove their manliness.