masochists
Those enjoying suffering
Masochists are people who derive pleasure from pain or humiliation.
The term comes from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a novelist whose characters sought out such experiences.
In sexual contexts, masochists enjoy receiving pain or domination from partners.
More loosely, masochist describes anyone who seems to court suffering: You're running another marathon in July? You're a masochist.
Erotic power dynamics
- submissivesThose who yield authority
- dominatrixFemale BDSM leader
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
leather · dungeon · consent · roleplay · bottoms · kink · fetish · spanking
Those who yield authority
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
- thresholdPoint of beginning
compulsion · flagellants · self-tormentors · humiliation · degradation · martyrdom · self-inflicted · catharsis
Those who exceed expectations
- perfectionistsThose demanding flawless standards
- capsaicinChili heat compound
- self-imposedVoluntarily placed upon oneself
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
BDSM
Erotic power dynamics
- submissivesThose who yield authority
- dominatrixFemale BDSM leader
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
discipline · leather · dungeon · consent · roleplay · bottoms · kink · fetish · spanking · restraints
submissives
Those who yield authority
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
threshold · compulsion · flagellants · self-tormentors · humiliation · degradation · martyrdom · self-inflicted · catharsis · release
overachievers
Those who exceed expectations
- perfectionistsThose demanding flawless standards
- capsaicinChili heat compound
- self-imposedVoluntarily placed upon oneself
masochistssadists
Those enjoying others' suffering
torturers · tormentors · abusers · bullies · dominants
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