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masochism
Definition
Sexual excitement and pleasure produced by experiencing pain and humiliation.ETYMOLOGY: From the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), an Austrian novelist whose most widely read novel was Venus im Pelz (Venus in Furs). He was eventually committed to an asylum by his second wife.
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