A Theory of Sexual Masochism

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Masochism

Addicted to Pain: A Preliminary Model of Sexual Masochism as Addiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (15) ◽  
pp. 1760-1774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Kurt ◽  
Natti Ronel
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Addictive Disorders ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Sexual Masochism ◽  
Preliminary Model ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological Study

An exploratory, qualitative, phenomenological study focused on the experience of pain while participating in sexual masochistic acts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine individuals (four female, five male) who regularly participate in sexually masochistic acts and point to pain as central to their experience. Qualitative analysis of the data revealed several key characteristics of the participant’s experience: the first time, intoxication, craving and withdrawal, tolerance, pain as control, and the pain inducing partner. The findings indicate that the way pain is experienced while mitigated through masochistic behavior creates an addictive process that coincides with a chronic behavioral spin contextualization. This article presents a preliminary model of addiction to physical pain in light of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5) definition of substance-related and addictive disorders and the behavioral spin theory.

scholarly journals Sexual Masochism Disorder with Asphyxiophilia: A Deadly yet Underrecognized Disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Coluccia ◽  
Mario Gabbrielli ◽  
Giacomo Gualtieri ◽  
Fabio Ferretti ◽  
Andrea Pozza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Accidental Injury ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Sexual Masochism ◽  
Impairment In Functioning ◽  
Paraphilic Disorders ◽  
Italian Context

DSM-5 distinguishes between paraphilias and paraphilic disorders. Paraphilias are defined as atypical, yet not necessarily disordered, sexual practices. Paraphilic disorders are instead diseases, which include distress, impairment in functioning, or entail risk of harm one’s self or others. Hence, DSM-5 new approach to paraphilias demedicalizes and destigmatizes unusual sexual behaviors, provided they are not distressing or detrimental to self or others. Asphyxiophilia, a dangerous and potentially deadly form of sexual masochism involving sexual arousal by oxygen deprivation, are clearly described as disorders. Although autoerotic asphyxia has been associated with estimated mortality rates ranging from 250 to 1000 deaths per year in the United States, in Italy, knowledge on this condition is very poor. Episodes of death caused by autoerotic asphyxia seem to be underestimated because it often can be confounded with suicide cases, particularly in the Italian context where family members of the victim often try to disguise autoerotic behaviors of the victims. The current paper provides a review on sexual masochism disorder with asphyxiophilia and discusses one specific case as an example to examine those conditions that may or may not influence the likelihood that death from autoerotic asphyxia be erroneously reported as suicide or accidental injury.

Moral and sexual masochism

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Hendrika C. Freud
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Masochism

scholarly journals Kathy Acker's french twist : translating sex in the Blood and guts trilogy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Tanti
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Wave Mode ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Kathy Acker ◽  
Sexual Masochism ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
Style Of Writing

Arriving on the New York literary scene in the late 1970's, Kathy Acker has been hailed as a punk beatnik virtuoso. Her style of writing has been referred to as "equal parts gossip, kinky sex and high theory." Her stylistics have been eagerly digested according to the tenets of postmodern discourse while her protagonists are held up as proof of her generation's rage against "control societies." The transgressive sexuality enacted in her texts, including sexual masochism, sexual violence and self-mutilation, is frequently interpreted as anarchic attempts to circumvent this logic. I purport to show that these tactics do not, in fact, spring from a reactionary politics. Rather, Acker is attempting to convey an abject carnal sexuality that struggles for expression within the name-of-the-father logic that structures conventional language and a lack of alternative feminist propositions. Key Words: Kathy Acker, feminism, literary criticism, French feminism, sexuality, queer theory, linguistics, translation, visuality, third wave, mode or modalities

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