Sadomasochism
The abbreviation for sadomasochism is SM.
Sadism and masochism were first defined as sexual perversions by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his Psychopathia Sexualis (1876) with reference to literary works by the authors D.A.F. Marquis de Sade and Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch.
In sexual pathology, masochism refers to a perversion in which sexual pleasure is (only) felt in one's own humiliation or physical injury, while sadism refers to a perversion in which sexual pleasure is (only) felt in the physical injury or humiliation of the other person.
The term sadomasochism describes both the possible combinations of both behavioural dispositions in one and the same person as well as the complementary character of an interaction between two persons with this disposition. In the extended definition (Freud et al.), sadism is associated with activity, masochism with passivity and assigned to the male or female sex character.
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