The opposite of the Sadistis the Masochist--the person who finds sexual gratification in being beaten or bullied.
If Peter were a Sadist in his cruelty, my cruelty to him was giving unconscious gratification to the Masochistic part of him.
Unfortunately the fact that a man is a sadist is often not found out until after marriage, but as soon as the wife has found it out she should leave the man and demand a divorce.
But in sadism, it is not essential that the sadistshould himself play the active part; very often, the maltreatment by a second person of a third suffices to cause sexual excitement in the sadist who looks on.
Far commoner than the acts of such stabbers are the cases in which the striking of children is to the sadist a source of sex-stimulation.
The Sadist often a Masochist in Disguise--The Spectacle of Pain or Struggle as a Sexual Stimulant.
The masochist desires to experience pain, but he generally desires that it should be inflicted in love; the sadist desires to inflict pain, but in some cases, if not in most, he desires that it should be felt as love.
That, at the same time, the sadist desires to give pleasure rather than pain finds confirmation in the fact that he often insists on pleasure being feigned even though it is not felt.
While we are probably justified in considering the sadist as morally not insane in the technical sense, we must remember that he is, for the most part, highly abnormal from the outset.
It is interesting to note the feelings of the sadist subject toward her imaginary lover's feelings.
The Sadist Often a Masochist in Disguise--The Spectacle of Pain or Struggle as a Sexual Stimulant.
We have also to recognize that even within the sexual sphere the sadist by no means wishes to exclude the victim's pleasure, and may even regard that pleasure as essential to his own satisfaction.
Reidal, a youth of 18, a seminarist, was a congenital sanguinary sadist who killed another youth and was finally sent to an asylum.
Undoubtedly in minor degree both qualities express themselves in male and female; undoubtedly the male is more frequently a sadist than is the female.
The cave man of the stories is a sadist of a type, and one generally approved of, at least in theory.
The question of castration arises here: but we do not know yet how far this protects the sadist and his victim against recurrence.
The humiliation of women takes part in the sadist appetite of man and often degenerates into fetichism.
There is no longer any doubt that in some cases perverted masters and teachers find satisfaction for their sadist sexual appetite in the corporal punishment of children.
I will mention a few examples bearing on the sexual question: A sadist or a sexual pervert addicted to assaults on children consults a doctor and confides to him his morbid appetite.
Not long ago the terrible case of a sadist invert, Dippold, startled civilized Europe.
It is only gradually, when normal coitus cannot procure for the perverted sexual appetite the satisfaction it requires, that the sadist gives way to his passion; this gives the latter a false appearance of acquired vice.
He was a niggardly rake, but in order to indulge his Sadist tendencies, agreed to pay one Thaler (Seventy-five cents) for every drop of blood shed by the girls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sadist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
