Masoch

surname of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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An enlarged view of a woman visibly enjoying a mild self-administered pinch, paired with a smaller release view in which her pleasure disappears.

noun

masochism

MAS-uh-kiz-um/ˈmæsəkɪzəm/

Enjoyment of one's own pain, humiliation, or suffering.

Etymology

masochGermansurname of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

+ismGermana practice, system, or doctrine

Masoch refers to the novelist Sacher-Masoch, who portrayed his submissive sexuality in Venus in Furs. His name supplied a term originally for sexual pleasure in being hurt or abused.

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