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I Want You To Hurt Me refers to a series of jokes using variations of the phrasal template "[during sex] I want you to hurt me" to imitate sex acts. The phrase is followed by punchlines that express humorous opinions or statements that might hurt the sexual partner.

Origin

The earliest known variation of the template was posted on July 5th, 2018 by Twitter ^[1] @lilah_sturges. They wrote, "*queer couple doing bdsm* person 1: i want you to hurt me. person 2: ok astrology is fake." In less than two months, the post (shown below) received more than 15,000 retweets and 86,000 likes.

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Later that month, on July 23rd, Twitter^[2] user @Skoogeth tweeted, "[during sex] her: i want you to hurt me me: mindy kaling is overrated her: wait me: golden girls was a subpar sitcom her: stop." The post (shown below, left) received more than 280 retweets and 1,600 likes in less than month.

On August 9th, @Skoogeth posted^[3] another version. They wrote, "[during sex] her: i want you to hurt me me: your sister’s more successful than you her: wait me: not a big fan of the new haircut her: stop." The post (shown below, center) received more than 88,000 retweets and 433,000 likes in less than two weeks.

Following the second tweet, various people began posting variations of the form. On August 18th, Twitter^[4] user @minnascule tweeted, "me during sex: hurt me them: you were never that smart you just were good at reading as a child so you were given special attention and it gave you a complex me: wait- them: you don’t try at school because youre convinced ur natural intellect will save you but u don’t have it." The post (shown below, right) received more than 90,000 retweets and 384,000 likes in two days.

On August 19th, BuzzFeed ^[5] published a listicle of variations on the form.

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