Word: sadisme
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...Payne, who beats up his characters more than a little bit, is dodging the question of whether he’s gone beyond comedy to sadism. The next day, meeting with three writers from college newspapers, Payne is affable and, eventually, more responsive...
...founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, analyzes sadomasochism as part of a number of disorders arising from the repression of the subconscious. Freud describes masochism as a perversion common in women and sadism as a perversion common in men, arising from pent-up violent energy...
...British psychologist and founder of sexology Havelock Ellis finishes his seven-volume polemic Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Ellis refutes Freud and Krafft-Ebing by arguing that there is little distinction between sadism and masochism as the two are complementary emotional states. Ellis creates the modern conception of SM, noting that sadomasochists use pain to create pleasure and violence to express love. Ellis also refutes Freud and Krafft-Ebing’s claims that sadism is a stereotypical male sexual response and masochism a stereotypical female sexual response...
...BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism) arises as part of larger gay male culture. Affiliated with the leather and biker subcultures, the BDSM practitioners described by Larry Townsend in the popular book “The Leatherman’s Handbook” create an “old guard” culture with formal rules and fixed playable roles. Sadomasochism becomes increasingly affiliated with the American gay community...
...American Psychiatric Association has a different definition. By their standards, as published in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), SM is a disorder—or rather, two disorders: paraphilia 302.83 (sexual masochism) and paraphilia 302.84 (sexual sadism...