Enter Lain. Serial Experiments Lain (1998) is not a show about BDSM or clinical masochism. It is a show about the dissolution of self in the digital age. And yet, Lain Iwakura has become an unlikely icon for the pain/pleasure aesthetic. Why?

Abandoning the "Real World" (which isn't actually real) for the purity of the data stream. The Sweetness of Obsolence: Letting go of the skin to become an omnipresent ghost.

Pain and Pleasure V03: Decoding the Allure of Smasochist Lain

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