However, the desire and absence of pain domain of sexual functioning were not predicted by attachment - related avoidance. (link.springer.com)
Mill further characterizes happiness as a kind of experiential state: «by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure» (U 10). (religion-online.org)
I think we're a culture that largely runs from pain, and often doesn't stop to consider that the absence of pain doesn't come without a cost to someone or something. (crunchydomesticgoddess.com)