Crossword clues for sadomasochism
Wiktionary
n. 1 The practices of sadism and masochism collectively, usually in reference to consensual practices within the BDSM community. 2 sadism and masochism in one person; the enjoyment by a person of both inflicting and receiving pain. 3 Sadomasochism for sexual gratification.
WordNet
n. sadism and masochism combined in one person
Wikipedia
Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving of pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation. Practitioners of sadomasochism may seek sexual gratification from their acts. While the terms sadist and masochist refer respectively to one who enjoys giving or receiving pain, practitioners of sadomasochism may switch between activity and passivity.
The abbreviation S&M is often used for sadomasochism, although practitioners themselves normally remove the ampersand and use the acronym SM or S/M. Sadomasochism is not considered a clinical paraphilia unless such practices lead to clinically significant distress or impairment for a diagnosis. Similarly, sexual sadism within the context of mutual consent, generally known under the heading BDSM, is distinguished from non-consensual acts of sexual violence or aggression.
Usage examples of "sadomasochism".
I want to identify various possible implications of the sadomasochism in the novel, so that we can approach cases of it with the question of politics sharply in mind.
Freud is correct in thinking that aggressiveness is instinctive, but it puts forward the notion that sadomasochism is innately sex-specific, as men reap pleasure from inflicting pain and women reap pleasure from receiving it.
However, he steered us away from anal sex or sadomasochism, and I was never afraid of a man becoming violent, although perhaps I should have been.
He would be awkward with women, sexually inexperienced in the normal sense, and find his release in a large pornography collection devoted to deviant practices such as sadomasochism and torture.
At first Rosemary West may have been cajoled or bullied by her violent husband to experiment with bondage, but as her own sexual awareness developed so her pleasure in sadomasochism flowered, until she became as hypnotised by it as he had become.
Bondage and sadomasochism were to be kept under ground, buried deep within his secret world, never to be allowed too near the surface.
West seized upon this unspoken theme, as well as the current fascination with bondage and sadomasochism, and through it satiated his most perverted desires.
Raina had been his first lover, and Raina had been into sadomasochism on a scale that made a joke out of safe, sane, and consensual.
In a fit of sadomasochism she laid down her toothbrush and cupped her belly.
Seduced first into sex with Rosemary, and then with both of them, the Wests then relentlessly proceeded to extend their sexual experiments with Lynda Gough into bondage and sadomasochism.
I refer, of course, to Gilgamesh Sfondrati-Piccolomini and his grotesque liaison with the man-beast Enkidu, in which homoerotica was intermingled with the most perverse aspects of sadomasochism and bondage.