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masochism|ˈmæsəkɪz(ə)m, ˈmæzəkɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian novelist, who described the thing + -ism.]
A form of sexual perversion in which a person finds pleasure in abuse and cruelty from his or her associate (cf. sadism). Recently applied more generally to a form of perversion in which a sufferer derives or is believed to derive pleasure from pain or humiliation.
1893Dunglison's Med. Dict. (ed. 21), Masochism, sexual perversion, in which a member of one sex takes delight in being dominated, even to the extent of violence or cruelty, by one of the other sex. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 196 [Group iii] with predominant perversion of moral and sexual nature (for example, moral insanity, uranism, masochism, etc.). 1930W. R. Inge Christian Ethics & Mod. Probl. iii. 109 Modern psychology has invented the word masochism for that perversion of the sex-instinct which takes the form of self-torture. 1943H. Read Politics of Unpolitical ii. 18 Masochism is the unconscious impulse to dissolve oneself in the power of another person and to participate in his annihilating power. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 71 Masochism, obtaining pleasure (usually sexual) through suffering pain, subjugation or humiliation. 1974Listener 21 Nov. 679 That Johnson had masochistic fantasies..was first mooted 20 years ago... That Johnson's masochism did not stop at fantasy seems to be indicated by..entries in Mrs Thrale's diary. |