Crossword clues for masochism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sexual pleasure in being hurt or abused," 1892, from German Masochismus, coined 1883 by German neurologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), from name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian utopian socialist novelist who enshrined his submissive sexuality in "Venus in Furs" (1869, German title "Venus im Pelz").
Wiktionary
n. the enjoyment of receiving pain
WordNet
n. sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)
Wikipedia
Masochism is the practice of seeking pain because it is pleasurable, named for Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. It may also refer to:
Usage examples of "masochism".
Or, to reverse tacks: does this scene along with the other examples of female masochism underscore the alignment Freud makes between femininity and masochism that Silverman critiques?
Tereza, including the basic impulse toward masochism, weakness, and suicide.
It was named masochism from Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian novelist, whose works describe this form of perversion.
Homosexuality was socially acceptable now, as was overt masochism, but this particular program disturbed him.
He secretly suspected that there was a streak of masochism in her, that she was only happy when surrounded by insurmountable obstacles and hopeless odds just so she could figure a way out.
But he was not irrigating fields, milking cows, or otherwise performing feats of agricultural masochism which might warrant such early rising.
Sexual Masochism is usually chronic, and the person tends to repeat the same masochistic act.
Gaming teams have to use it on the flooded levels, but getting it there will be an exercise in masochism.
Instantly she is replaced on the jumbo tube by Marilyn Manson, a flamboyant metalhead whose plangent ode to masochism puts an inexplicable bounce in my step.
She felt angry and sick that such things could go on at all, and that such people could become such monstrous practitioners of murder, sadism, masochism, sexual excess, and even beastiality.
The deep-buried homosexual desire for the father's penis (present in all policemen) was next cathected by denial of the father, via denial of paternal ancestory, and he began to abolish all Irish Catholic traces from ego-memory, substituting those of Jewish culture, since the Jew, as persecuted minority, reinforced his basic masochism.
The deep-buried homosexual desire for the father's penis (present in all policemen) was next cathected by denial of the father, via denial of paternal ancestry, and he began to abolish all Irish Catholic traces from ego-memory, substituting those of Jewish culture, since the Jew, as persecuted minority, reinforced his basic masochism.
Sadism and masochism, then, are usually unpopular topics for Rough Sexy Novels, while homosexuality, lesbianism, group sex, troilism, and most other bedroom activities are not only permissible but encouraged.