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sadism
Psychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by inflicting pain on another person. The term was coined in reference to the marquis de Sade, who chronicled his own such practices. Sadism is often linked to masochism, and many individuals who have one tendency also have the other.
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Sadism is the derivation of pleasure as a result of inflicting pain, or watching pain inflicted, on others. Aspects of it include:
- Sadomasochism
- Sadism and masochism as medical terms
- Sadistic personality disorderSee also
- Marquis de Sade, an eighteenth-century French writer
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