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sadismPsychosexual 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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| At the core, evidence of severe personality disorder or paraphilia will exist and may include, but is not limited to, traits associated with antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, sexual sadism, borderline personality disorder, and pedophilia. For example, in its discussion of paraphilias--a diagnostic category that includes acts of exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism, pedophilia, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, transvestism, and voyeurism--the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, indicates that "except for Sexual masochism . A blistering satire of modern Hollywood, the novel is also a full-on ghost story: Pickett selects as his hiding place the remote estate of a once-famous silent film actress with a taste for sexual sadism (among other things), and it turns out she's still haunting the place along with a cabal of the ghosts of old movie stars. |
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Sexual Sadism
