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"masochism" Definitions
  1. the practice of getting sexual pleasure from being hurt or controlled by somebody else compare sadism
  2. (informal) pleasure in something that most people would find unpleasant or painful

161 Sentences With "masochism"

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Doing that on a large scale would be industrial masochism.
It's not meant to be a sheer exercise in masochism.
Graham's comedy of sadism has become King's comedy of masochism.
I really love the masochism of writing a long story.
Her pieces combined masochism and spirituality, often to intense effect.
Throughout the months following, sexual masochism bled into the emotional kind.
All told, this prospect tested even my own sincere financial masochism.
After all, a detox doesn't have to be an exercise in masochism.
The study also found that masochism was connected with greater sexual satisfaction.
She writes about smart young women who are attracted to sexual masochism.
Mr Abe, a nationalist, has never had truck with war-guilt masochism.
Yet every pair of excruciating heels also telegraphs a subtle masochism: i.e.
"There is a certain French masochism," Pascal Bruckner, an author, told me.
It was masochism, if not exactly the type I'd readied myself for.
Mockery, sympathy, love, loyalty, sarcasm, masochism ... the Chicago Cubs have had it all.
It's a confusing and complex process, a paradoxical mixture of masochism and therapy.
There's a certain masochism that comes with watching crime dramas if you're a woman.
Mr. Buch-Jepsen asked about Mr. Madsen's involvement in the sadism-and-masochism community.
Morbid curiosity along with a bit of masochism drew me back to Hudson Yards.
But largely, being a sports fan in the 2010s was an exercise in masochism.
I did fare far better the next day though, despite my moment of masochism.
The most popular kinks fell under the categories of voyeurism, fetishism, exhibitionism, masochism, and sadism.
Meet Hatari (pictured), a self-described "anti-capitalist, BDSM [bondage-discipline-sadism-masochism] techno band".
"The empty bottled loneliness, this happiness you seek / The masochism that you preach," she says.
To expect Greece to commit to such fiscal masochism for four decades is not sensible.
Enjoy our 64-entry, single-elimination round-up, nonseeded because our masochism only extends so far.
It seems like an elaborate form of artistic masochism, but Ichwandardi doesn't see it that way.
As a sport, running has a reputation for requiring a certain tolerance for intensity, even masochism.
Even by this standard, Republicans' behavior is beginning to look like masochism if not simple madness.
Image courtesy of Microsoft Game Studios It's not meant to be a sheer exercise in masochism.
Masochism at its most tender by women who knew how to be loved, bruised and ultimately survive.
With their clunk and coverage, summertime combat boots convey just the sort of brooding masochism Scorpios crave.
In recent years, the predictable masochism we feel while scrolling has found an equally predictable remedy: nature.
He enjoyed blaming the fact that he had to support himself with hackwork on the Americanization of postwar European culture; but then he always had a sly sadist's understanding of the American intellectual's appetite for masochism (perhaps because it was appropriated from the émigré Jewish intellectual's appetite for masochism).
The Handmaiden had all your trademarks: sadism, masochism, revenge, love in defiance of a taboo, murder, and suicide.
People who don't engage in BDSM may assume that consent isn't a huge part of bondage and masochism.
However, the phrase also signifies a perverse desire for self-destruction—the decadent and ultimate sense of masochism.
Rosneft, Russia's state-owned oil company, called the OPEC alliance "masochism" that allowed US shale oil to thrive.
The varieties of this experience — recreational, informational, social, sexual, political — often blur the lines between hedonism and masochism.
With the dumbvac, the masochism of my ongoing relationships with tech gives way to the thrill of domination.
There's a masochism to that idea, something that even a self-loathing, weather-hardened Old Worlder might find strange.
With ice coverage reaching two feet thick, drilling holes a mano like Gary becomes an exercise in pure masochism.
But when a manager later bizarrely raises the specter of "sex masochism," interest in the incident will undoubtedly explode.
For Fujioka and his cohorts, such minor indulgences are fine, as religion need not be an exercise in masochism.
So we've tried not to annoy you too much, even if some of us cashed in on our masochism.
There is an element of violence or masochism in the scenes on the cross, whipping Christ, and such things.
SPH is a form of verbal humiliation and of sexual masochism, where a painful sensation or experience is eroticized.
How about liberating ourselves from our various mind trips such as ignorance, greed, masochism, fear of God and social conventions?
Uber's board of directors met for over six hours yesterday, is what appeared to be an act of corporate masochism.
M&A rules in Europe's biggest economy, centred around ominously named "domination agreements", indeed feature a strong hint of masochism.
And obviously yes it is, because he said "sex masochism", and that's a rude thing that adults do isn't it?
To love is to be radically poor in control, and, for Rooney's characters, humility can tip into humiliation, even masochism.
"It looks at the masochism, the sadism within it," said Mr. Fernandes, a graduate of the Whitney's Independent Study Program.
But it is actually a wistful reflection on the masochism of supporting a football team, especially one as hapless as England.
In these cases, masochism is a brutal, active force, one that establishes the superiority of men over corrupting, sexualized feminine forces.
Bacon's relationship with George Dyer, whom he met in late 1963, was also laced with stormy masochism and ended in tragedy.
That goes double for any fan who might somehow be expecting a positive result, and not just indulging in sports masochism.
"I have accused Lydia of marrying me to get even, but she asserts it was pure masochism," Professor Deutsch wryly recalled.
John was attempting to practice an unhealthy, unsafe, and nonconsensual form of structured masochism, in isolation, outside of healthy established BDSM practice.
As a switch (someone who both tops and bottoms), Yin says they can take a lot of masochism, like flogging and canning.
The twinning of physical and psychological recovery might be heavy-handed, and Tony's growing masochism can come dangerously close to inspiring contempt.
Playing Judah, Heston reached his career pinnacle as a sweaty symbol of virtuous heroic masochism and super-masculine beefcake with a halo.
The twisted human forms of the art of Egon Schiele are conjured in haunting ballets of what might be called defensive masochism.
CP: If you're really into masochism or whatever, maybe you could do that, but make it easy for yourself, remove the temptation.
Set in 1950s London, it explores the borders between love and masochism in a distinctly Andersonian twist on old Hollywood gothic romances.
Practice a benign masochism: By repeatedly exposing your nerves to spices, you reassure your brain that these are desired encounters, not threats.
Not all will share the writer's tortured filial relationships, tendency toward Protestant masochism, head full of literary ideas and rock 'n' roll.
All of these elicit sympathy and attention from the Bachelorettes, who usually seem concerned but also flattered by these displays of brawny masochism.
The issue also serves as a visual introduction to Masochism, the follow up to her excellent debut, 207's Night Time, My Time.
One explanation is a theory called benign masochism, coined by Dr. Paul Rozin, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
At the end of Normal People, rather than rejecting her instincts toward masochism, Marianne finds a healthier context in which to express them.
Initially she enacted rockish boy-toy masochism—a pretty girl who got wet for an entire casting call of rough trade sugar daddies.
Most of us feel compelled to participate in it now, whether for work, news, masochism, or to stay hip to the cultural zeitgeist.
This bit serves as the crescendo of her wider takedown of the masochism and misogyny she sees embodied in many revered Modern artists.
Onto Mitski I had projected a pining frailty, believing that the lovesickness in her songs prefigured a neglect of the self, a docile masochism.
Is there a purpose other than masochism, nourishing the #contentfarm or possibly to fuel excitement for week two (which I am told people attend).
For the average person, BDSM (bondage, dominance, submission, and masochism—a type of sexual behavior) may mean the occasional light spanking in the bedroom.
Both the sadism and masochism here is very raw — but pain and pleasure mingle in ways that never cease to be surprising or poetic.
Fantasies of freedom and escape embedded in materialism, egomania, sadism and masochism, nihilism, the reverence of criminality and insanity and the ecstasy of the onanist.
And yes, the consequences of voters' seeming masochism in nominating two historically dislikable individuals are, if not dire for democracy, at least a bit weird.
BDSM, short for bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism, is a consensual sexual dynamic in which people play with power through different sexual acts.
To read one of these stories is to read most of these stories; to read as many of them as I do is the purest masochism.
"Jealous" established him as a sexy, falsettoing master of butch pop masochism, in thrall to women for whom he puffs his chest and remains in chains.
Through the character of Mony Vibescu, Apollinaire explored all manner of non-normative sexual activity, from sadism, masochism, scatophilia, and pedophilia, to group sex and homosexuality.
But the debate over whether the film is a statement of feminist empowerment or masochism — or whether Mr. Verhoeven has forged a new genre: screwball sadomasochism?
It's what's known as a kink collective, where Ms. Taillor runs bondage workshops and other fetish events for the B.D.S.M. (bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism) community.
It's almost a kind of masochism to watch these outlandishly bad dates stack up, especially as Josh and Hazel keep making inadvertent eyes at each other.
Genet's drama The Balcony (1957), about the playacting and masochism of authority figures, is set in a posh brothel during a revolution in an unnamed country.
Perhaps this is masochism, but Game of Thrones has thrived on emotional send-offs, and deaths can give an epic battle a purpose and a greater meaning.
There are still laws on the books in many states that prevent kink and BDSM—an acronym for Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism—from being practiced openly.
Every now and then a studio returns to adapt a video game, like it's some trendy form of masochism unique to the bouge neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
There are those of us who seek out spicy foods on occasion, and there are those who seek it out as a form of self-inflicted masochism.
Never mind that they'd have nothing to gain; corporate masochism at the level and of the degree you're suggesting would jeopardize both the Company and its holdings.
It's protagonist Madeline's own depression and anxiety that drives her to climb Celeste mountain—partially for the punishing masochism of the trek and partially to seek catharsis.
I caution those of us on the other side from seeing Trump supporters as experiencing a form of masochism or some kind of intellectual or personality defects.
While still a teenager, Ms. Nixon achieved an uncommon feat of Broadway stamina and masochism: racing between theaters each night to star in two productions at once.
His signature move — that iconic split — required massive strength, but unlike a straightforward punch or bravado-fueled wielding of a machine gun, it carried a tinge of masochism.
Though this may seem initially shocking, if we think of an adult baby fetish as an extension of submission and masochism, it's not so out of left field.
" Yes, yes, they talked about eating peaches, but also about the importance of journaling, the masochism of social media and how "it's almost a high to be vulnerable.
For myriad reasons — information gathering, boredom (I couldn't leave my home without being trailed by paparazzi) and a touch of masochism — I watched the news around the clock.
Kill Me Please is sort of about Facebook, and the way it enables voyeurism, masochism, and the type of persistent one-sided communication that can really scare the recipient.
In 2009, the government banned Rammstein's hit album "Liebe ist Fuer Alle Da" ("Love is For All") from public display in stores because of its depictions of sado-masochism.
Her frankness about the aggression in childhood, the drives to masochism and domination — along with her absolute lack of alarm — are what give these novels their uneasy, marginal status.
BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (yes, the D and S are doing double duty), and spanking has all aspects of the above.
A few months after my initial dive into the world of masochism, I met (and quickly began dating) a man who truly loved to fulfill my desires of being hit.
Kinks like voyeurism and masochism are much more common than most assume, while the only truly rare types of sexual behavior are the ones that are actually deviant (read: pedophilia).
There's an inherent masochism to it—massive kick drums shatter sternums and cochlea with the force of a pneumatic hammer at speeds that often top out at over 200 BPM.
The Advice of Strangers was Horowitz's way of dissecting decision-making as an artist, and it continued his trajectory of blending art and entertainment — plus a healthy dose of masochism.
Slightly more than one third of people were interested in voyeurism, while 26 percent expressed interest in fetishism or rubbing up against strangers, and 19 percent liked masochism, the survey found.
But if I can persuade just one of you to bypass its milquetoast masochism and watch the stratospherically superior "9 1/2 Weeks" instead, then I will have done my job.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — Up a flight of stairs and tucked into an inconspicuous corner of kurimanzutto's compound, there's an affectionate shrine to sadism, masochism, and contradiction.
Probably. The curiosity around them will be powerful, part of the same innate masochism that makes us open Twitter or turn on the news before we do anything else in the morning.
It kept me up at night to where I got into a habit of emotional masochism to the point of just trying to take in every negative feeling I could draw from.
Anyone lusting after the position of sovereign would possess not just an unhealthy masochism, but a level of narcissism at odds with the humility displayed by the Queen during this past week.
It isn't about masochism, or machismo, but about the desire to grasp each and every molecule of a thing, even the sharp ones, which is, in that way, a bit like love.
So, in the name of good journalism and a bit of sado masochism I reached out to the person who attempted to put an army of Redditors on myself, Celeste, and Anisa.
And she was busy, preparing two volumes of her notebooks from the 1960s and a graphic novel called "Man Into Wolf," whose title comes from a 1948 book about sadism, masochism and werewolves.
Instead of choosing a bottle, we ordered too many glasses of red wine, talked about our mutual appreciation for "The West Wing" and agreed that marathon running is its own form of masochism.
Roberge covers cataclysmic struggles with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder; misadventures in the music and drug scenes; an affinity for masochism and for fierce women; and encounters with various addicts, artists, and authority figures.
Leopold Sacher-Masoch (the author of Venus in Furs, from whom masochism derives its name) would pressure his wife into sleeping with other men so he could experience the pleasurable humiliation of being cuckolded.
To understand the special kind of masochism necessary in your average Souls series guide maker, I spoke to Wil Murray, senior editor at publishers Future Press, and series luminary (and fellow Future contributor) EpicNameBro.
Bondage, the sex act of restraining one's partner and all the pleasurable activities that come with it, is part of the basic foundation of kink and BDSM (which stands for Bondage, Domination, Sadism, and Masochism).
This annual exercise in endurance masochism is known as the World Marathon Challenge, and this year Hall will be one of only 233 people to attempt the feat, which only 22 runners completed in 204.
The truth is that BDSM — which includes bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism — is an à-la-carte menu of options for expanding your sex life, not a prix-fixe meal.
Anna listens to them, with what seems to be a complicated blend of masochism, jealousy and wishful thinking — as if the fact that someone believes her son is still alive might make him less dead.
Individuals involved in bondage, discipline, sadism, and/or masochism (BDSM) tend to come off as sexual deviants to the rest of us, whose natural predilections skew "vanilla," that is, free of fetishes and/or kinks.
As a boy, he says, he had masochism forced on him through the catechism; as a man, he finds that his education lingers, leading him to view its reciprocal, sadism, as the dark heart of society.
To call it pure masochism would have been simplistic, and it wasn't that I wanted so desperately to be prepared for a brawl: In my view, the human, like the horse, is a creature of flight.
In fact, "Lucky Per" emerges as a savage critique of the persistence, in Danish culture, of a certain Kierkegaardian masochism, in which all choices are made religious rather than secular, purifyingly negative rather than complicatedly affirmative.
We know there are segments of the bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism scene who dabble in branding, and they've definitely got a better handle on consensual master/slave role-play than your average 50 Shades Darker viewer.
For all the problems of the VHA, being able to take care of veterans is an honor as a physician – one that unfortunately requires a degree of masochism to do within the current state of the VHA.
In my experience, this condition seems a bigger "shame" than anything that would be the opposite, whether you would call it sex addiction, the old-fashioned term "promiscuity," or various forms of fetish from orgy to masochism.
There's an undercurrent of masochism in the scene when the many Mr. Phillipses and Ms. Crookshankses are smashing tomatoes on him — Veidt is seeking out and searching for something other than the same admiration over and over.
According to Hammack, power exchange is at the core of many kinks, especially those under the BDSM or bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism, umbrella like choking, being tied up, or being hit consensually during sex.
According to makeup department head Evelyne Noraz, for most of the BDSM scenes, Dakota Johnson was covered head to toe in body foundation — which sounds a little like our own version of masochism, but maybe that's just us.
Reuters Health - Lots of ordinary people are into sex with a dash of voyeurism, fetishism and masochism – all habits classified as deviant in the manual doctors use to diagnose mental health disorders, a survey of Quebec residents suggests.
Cast against type as Raymond Brock, the midlevel diplomat who loves and marries Susan, Corey Stoll provides some affecting flashes of self-awareness, although Brock's adoration of his abusive wife never makes sense except as a form of masochism.
The power of losing and negative thoughts goes unrecognized among most players, Mr. Turner said, as does the inner "will to lose" that all people have, fueled by a primal masochism and the death drive put forth by Freud.
I like masochism as much as the next political independent, for watching those who elevated the politics of personal identity, political correctness and class warfare to exalted status turn on their own is, well, not to sugarcoat it, an unalloyed delight.
And given that Trump is going to split the Republican party anyway, whether in defeat or as the nominee, the case for accepting his nomination in a spirit of heighten-the-contradictions masochism seems like a dereliction of that duty.
This is evident in his tortured relationships with Ed; with the woman Ed marries, Laurel (Roxanna Hope Radja, who winningly brings out the character's wry masochism); and with the handsome, much younger Alan, the model (a likable Michael Hsu Rosen).
Whether it was curiosity or masochism or some combination of both, I'm not sure, but instead of cutting my losses and walking away, I started tweaking my profile to see how small changes would affect the types of messages people sent.
While the world of BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) has hit the mainstream, Mistress Couple – the headmistress of La Domaine Esemar, a BDSM training chateau in the Berkshires – tells PEOPLE that the way the franchise portrays the lifestyle is sometimes misleading.
Mistress Couple, who is the headmistress of La Domaine Esemar, a BDSM training chateau in the Berkshires, tells PEOPLE that sex toys are a large part of the BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) practice – and are accessible for anyone who's interested.
At a time when being on social media increasingly feels like it borders on masochism, this prototype tweak seems like a reasonable solution to maintaining Instagram's appeal as a corner of the internet that is still pretty tolerable and at times even enjoyable.
In a stretch that at times seemed to verge on political masochism, Mr. Trump threatened and mocked Mr. Cruz's wife, and led an elaborate and far-fetched defense of his campaign manager after the aide was charged with battery against a female reporter.
He referred to Japan's profound national regret surrounding World War II, specifically, as "masochism." in 2013, he visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine to Japanese war dead, an act that both South Korean and Chinese officials denounced as paying homage to midcentury war criminals.
Fetishism and masochism work directly into her choices, and so does the unsatisfying nature of her other relationships, with the callously entitled husband of her best friend and business partner, and with her ex-husband, who's moved on to date a beautiful yoga instructor.
" The priest was arrested, and in an evaluation the church submitted to the court, they acknowledged that priest admitted to "'sado-masochistic" activities with several boys - but the sado-masochism was only 'mild,' and at least the priest was not 'psychotic,'" according to the report.
Almost one-third of both sexes saw B.D.S.M. (bondage, domination, sadism, masochism), and 26 percent of males and 73 percent of females watched videos with double penetration, described in the study as one or more penises or objects in a woman's anus and/or in her vagina.
Some politicians and media outlets have even begun to refer to them as the "287 Shades" defense, after the popular "20173 Shades of Grey" books and movies, which recount a woman's relationship with a man who introduces her to BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) sexual practices.
If you are a wandering, homeless Christian, scarred by original sin, the answer might be: in the arms of a wandering Jew—but one whose own itinerancy is unseduced by the lure of religion, whose own secularism is not tempted by the simplicity of religious masochism.
Puppy play enthusiasts are part of a larger community interested in bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism, collectively known as B.D.S.M. Participants primarily consider it a form of sexual role play, because they get to act like puppies — friendly, frisky, often nonverbal — and gain pleasure from doing so.
If you're poly (that is, open to being in loving relationships with multiple people at a time) or into BDSM (bondage, domination/submission, sadism/masochism—think explicit power play) or both, participate in a munch (a social, non-sexual gathering, usually with food, for like-minded folks).
One of the phrases I've heard at conferences when people talk about great athletes is that there's probably some degree of benign masochism that the people who love to go out and run 100 miles a week are not just physically capable but mentally capable of doing that.
It's chimeric: a meditation on the construction of masculinity, masochism, the psychology of desire, queerness, as well as the simultaneous erasure and development of the feminine in men loving and desiring each other; it also meditates on the fine lines between love, being loved, fucking, and being fucked.
Researchers surveyed 1,040 adults in Quebec to see how often they desired or practiced eight sexual behaviors defined as outside the norm in the manual – fetishizing objects, wearing clothes from the opposite sex, spying on strangers, displaying genitals to unsuspecting strangers, rubbing against a stranger, pedophilia, masochism and sadism.
As members of Congress return this week from the first recess under President Trump — an exercise in masochism for most Republicans who held town hall-style events, and relief for the many more who did not — both parties are straining to make sense of the tumult back home.
It's a bank holiday today, so you're probably not reading this and instead doing something pointless yet joyful: sitting in a beer garden all day talking about Van Gaal and sex masochism, convincing yourself it's warm enough for a barbecue, or watching all of the Bond films in a static caravan.
"If she had wanted something nice to happen to her she would have chosen someone nice" serves both as a description of one woman's open-eyed masochism and a cautionary banner over a book that could be read as a field guide to varieties of misery, much of which is experienced by women and girls.
Even if it is tempered, optimism does abound throughout northern Alberta, where 10 consecutive postseasons have passed without the Oilers' presence, the longest current streak in the N.H.L. Across that decade of misery, masochism and mismanagement, Edmonton toiled through several unsuccessful phases of rebuilding, garnering three No. 686 picks before a fourth gifted them McDavid, a generational talent — "once-in-a-lifetime," said General Manager Peter Chiarelli — who conjures the greatest Oiler of them all, Wayne Gretzky.

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