sadomasochist
Enjoys inflicting, receiving
A sadomasochist is someone who derives pleasure from both inflicting and receiving pain, especially in sexual contexts.
The term combines sadism (pleasure in causing pain) and masochism (pleasure in receiving it).
In casual use, sadomasochist describes anyone who seems to enjoy difficult or punishing situations: You'd have to be a sadomasochist to run ultramarathons in that heat.
Erotic power dynamics
- dominatrixFemale BDSM leader
- submissiveReadily yielding to control
- leatherTanned animal skin
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
fetish · dungeon · whip · pain · pleasure · consent · safeword · dom
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- controlAuthority to direct
- humiliationLoss of dignity
- degradationDecline in condition
power · aggression · torment · gratification · domination · submission · dysfunction · compulsion
Writer whose name became perversion
- libertineOne lacking moral restraint
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
erotic · perversion · darkness · desire · forbidden · underground · censorship · obscenity
BDSM
Erotic power dynamics
- dominatrixFemale BDSM leader
- submissiveReadily yielding to control
- leatherTanned animal skin
bondage · fetish · dungeon · whip · pain · pleasure · consent · safeword · dom · sub
cruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- controlAuthority to direct
- humiliationLoss of dignity
degradation · power · aggression · torment · gratification · domination · submission · dysfunction · compulsion · impulse
Marquis de Sade
Writer whose name became perversion
- libertineOne lacking moral restraint
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
decadence · erotic · perversion · darkness · desire · forbidden · underground · censorship · obscenity · subversion
sadomasochistvanilla
Orchid pod extract
prude · traditionalist · conventional · asexual · celibate