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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological intensity; pleasure and pain as inseparable in certain loves
What this book is about
Mather's The Pleasure and the Pain takes the paradox of romantic feeling — that it exists in proximity to its opposite — and makes it the emotional center of a contemporary Presents. A relationship where the pleasure is inseparable from its risk.
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