The Agony and the Ecstasy A Review of Sexual Masochism Masochism, a sexual disorder in which sexual arousal is derived from subjection to physical and emotional degradation. A type of paraphilia ,masochism is explained in psychoanalysis as a destructive attitude in which the individual turns inward upon himself instead of outward upon others. The Masochist exists to test his/her limits, to see how much pain (s) he can tolerate before (s)he collapses. She/…showed first 75 words of 3342 total…

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