sadism

masochism

bondage (sex)

dominatrix

grammar

sadomasochism

kinkiness

homonym

safe word

depression

exhaustion

is an appropriation of the other's flesh but it treats it as nothing but an object of appropriation.

Sadismappropriates the Other's flesh but treats it as nothing but an objectof appropriation. In either event, the ideal of sexual desire isdefeated. Nevertheless, Sartre claims, sadism and masochismprovide the coordinates for sexuality in general: 'It is because ofthis inconstancy on the part of desire and its perpetual oscillationbetween these two perils that 'normal' sexuality is commonlydesignated as 'sadistic-masochistic.''Sartre's novels and plays generally depict sex as a compendiumof sadism and masochism. And among his later theoreticaldiscussions, one could argue that none really mitigates his critique ofsexuality in Being and Nothingness. In that book he sometimes seems. . .

is not a matter of sexual pathology but of existential psychology. Being about psychology, it is not about torture or destruction, it appears as the radical negation of the other, as the denial of the social principle as well as the reality principle.

For Georges Bataille, sadism is to be understood not in the light of sexual pathology but rather in that of existential psychology, in which it appears as the radical negation of the other, as the denial of the social principle as well as the reality principle. A world in which torture, destruction, and death triumph obviously cannot exist.

sadism, n.All

sadism