Sadism
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Sadism is the derivation of pleasure as a result of inflicting pain, cruelty, degradation, or humiliation, or, watching such behaviors inflicted on others. Aspects of it include:
- Sadomasochism
- Sadism and masochism (as medical terms), sadism and masochism as paraphilia
- Sadistic personality disorder, nonsexual sadism
- Masochistic personality disorder
- See also
- Marquis de Sade, an 18th-century French writer from whom the term sadism is coined
- Schadenfreude, a German word for pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others
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