Word: masochismã
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...German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis, which coins the terms “sadism” and “masochism?? and describes sexual disorders in which acts of cruelty and bodily punishment become sexually pleasurable. At this time, the two “sexual anomalies” are understood as distinct: sadism involves finding sexual pleasure in inflicting pain on another person; masochism involves ceding control of a sexual situation to another person...
...BDSM community’s definition, SM combines sadism—pleasure from inflicting pain—and masochism??pleasure from receiving pain—into one word, a combination intended to suggest you can’t have one without the other, members of the community say. The person being whipped wants to be whipped as much as his partner wants to whip him. That is why they leave out the ampersand...
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