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...Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.” The production, which opens tonight and runs through November 7 at the Loeb Experimental Theater, tells the story of that infamous character for whom the term “sadism?? was coined, the Marquis de Sade, and his internment at the Charenton Asylum shortly after the French Revolution. A play within a play, the show aims to combine its two settings—revolutionary Paris and an asylum fifteen years later—with an emphasis...
...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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