>>112509870You live with pain long enough, you develop coping mechanisms for it. Some are positive to the greater web of relationships, others are negative. But they allow you to cope, as they should.
Turning an overwhelmingly negative experience i.e. getting bruised by a violent assault, into a positive one can be done in many ways. Positively: recontexualizing it to put you in a better light. Negatively: learning how to masturbate whilst touching the tender, broken flesh.
And Reg is autistic enough to yearn for the latter over the former.
