Pain, free.

With the spiralling costs of handcuffs, and dungeons, and dominatrixes, and nipple clamps, and all the paraphernalia of the genuine pain connoisseur, many are the masochists who are reverting to a simpler, easier, cheaper life style.

The Swim of Instant Torment in the Irish Sea is rapidly gaining in popularity.

This shot was taken at the very moment when, upon testicular immersion in the icy-cold fluid, this young man realised that he may never be able to conceive children.
Considering that my own kids were in the vicinity, and reaching new heights of obnoxiousness, he may have seen it as a blessing, albeit an excruciating one.