As a note, hearing degradation occurs with ANY loud sound.
The reason high frequency sounds hurt more is because our ears have a resonant peak around 8/9KHz
The reason low range hearing damage occurs less quickly than high midrange damage, is because our ears sense sound in a spiral. The high frequency sounds are sensed towards the top of the ear canal and the low frequency sounds towards the end, but they must still pass over the part that senses high frequencies. So the high frequency sound part is battered to death by all the sound we hear, and the bass frequencies get off fairly lightly.
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