Discovery Channel, box jellyfish, and sadism

[Cyborg Girl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_ ... nstrations

What. The. Fuck. Especially this:

Another program aired on the Discovery Channel, Stings, Fangs and Spines, featured a 20-minute spot on Irukandji syndrome. In the segment, a young Australian woman was stung and developed a severe case. In a testament to the severity of pain involved, a re-enactment (featuring the actual victim portraying herself) shows her screaming and violently thrashing around on the hospital bed in an almost convulsive state, for the bulk of the segment.

What the fuck... Why would anyone want to watch something like that?

[cid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_syndrome#Media_demonstrations

What. The. Fuck. Especially this:

Another program aired on the Discovery Channel, Stings, Fangs and Spines, featured a 20-minute spot on Irukandji syndrome. In the segment, a young Australian woman was stung and developed a severe case. In a testament to the severity of pain involved, a re-enactment (featuring the actual victim portraying herself) shows her screaming and violently thrashing around on the hospital bed in an almost convulsive state, for the bulk of the segment.

What the fuck... Why would anyone want to watch something like that?

"Marquis de Sade, your program beings in 15 minutes on the televisor."
"Thank you, Gyorgi...give yourself five lashes..."

[Swift]

What the fuck... Why would anyone want to watch something like that?

Why do people like horror movies? Why do people like The Walking Dead? I don't, but that's me. Why is this particularly different?