A careful consideration of the phenomena of sadism and masochism may be said to lead us to the conclusion that there is no real line of demarcation.
Sadism and masochism may be regarded as complementary emotional states; they cannot be regarded as opposed states.
Although masochism in a pronounced degree may be said to be rare in women, the love of active flagellation, and sadistic impulses generally are not uncommon among them.
Masochism is a sub-species of ‘contrary sexual sensation.
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The man's a sadist, a lover of cruelty, and there's enough masochism in any woman to make him terribly dangerous.
The sexual perversions known by the names of sadism and masochismhave of late attracted much attention from students of the sexual life.
Masochism corresponds to the passivism of Stefanowski, and is the opposite of sadism, in which the pleasure is derived from inflicting pain on the object of affection.
It was named masochism from Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian novelist, whose works describe this form of perversion.
Sadism and masochism occupy a special place among the perversions, for the contrast of activity and passivity lying at their bases belong to the common traits of the sexual life.
Krafft-Ebing as sadism or the active form, and masochism or the passive form.
It can often be recognized that the masochism is nothing but a continuation of the sadism turning against one's own person in which the latter at first takes the place of the sexual object.
The manipulations of sadism or masochism are even utilized to revive a sexual appetite weakened by abuse.
These mixtures of sadism and masochism have been investigated by Schrenk Notzing, who concludes that they are intimately related.
Accentuated forms of pathological masochism are, however, rare in women.
If masochism is common in men, it is produced in women rather as an exaggeration in the domain of her normal sexual sensations, for it is to a great extent in harmony with her passive sexual role.
The term masochism is applied by Krafft-Ebing to a form of sexual perversion described by Sacher-Masoch in several of his romances.
On the other hand, masochism may give tone to the thoughts and sexual feelings of certain persons of great influence, such as Rousseau, and to sects of ascetics, such as the fakirs, etc.
Like sadism, masochism is hereditary and congenital.
Masochism presents a certain analogy with the religious ecstasy of fakirs and flagellants who flog themselves.
We may add that, like sadism, masochism occurs in sexual inverts, but always having the same sex for its object.
Latent masochism may always be assumed as the unconscious motive.
But only confusion is attained by any general attempt to amalgamate masochism and foot-fetichism.
It is, however, often very difficult to decide whether we are dealing with a case which is predominantly one of masochism or of foot-fetichism.
It is quite easy to see that this supposed identity of masochism and foot-fetichism forms a seductive theory.
Certainly the connection is common, but in the majority of cases of slightly marked scatalogical fetichism no masochism is evident.
Active algolagnia or sadism is thus a form of erotic symbolism; passive algolagnia or masochism is (in a man) an inverted form of erotic symbolism.
It occurs in masochism and expresses the desire for passive flagellation.
The majority or all may be looked upon as instances of latent masochism (the motive remaining unconscious) in which the female foot or shoe, as the masochist's fetich, has acquired an independent significance.
In determining whether we are concerned with a case of foot-fetichism or of masochism we must take into consideration the whole of the subject's mental and emotional attitude.
It will also be seen that no element of masochism is involved in Restif's fetichism, though the mistake has been frequently made of supposing that these two manifestations are usually or even necessarily allied.
Sex psychopathology discloses innumerable cases where extreme sadism and masochism exist in both sexes; that is, not only males but females are sadistic, and so not only females but males are masochistic.
Thus tenderness and sex passion, with sadism and masochism in lesser degree, are basic in sex feeling, but other qualities enter so largely that any complete analysis is almost impossible.
In a thymo-centric, tendencies to homosexuality and masochism appear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masochism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: exhibitionism; fetishism; homosexuality; incest; masochism; narcissism; sadism
