Sexual Sadism Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Sexual sadism is infliction of physical or psychologic suffering (eg, humiliation, terror) on another person to stimulate sexual excitement and orgasm. Sexual sadism disorder is sexual sadism that causes significant distress or significant functional impairment or is acted on with a nonconsenting person.
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Wiki Number: 41-Sexual Sadism Disorder
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Symptoms: Sexual arousal from the pain, suffering or humiliation of others.
Progression: The other person may be consenting or non-consenting; may lead to killing and mutilating
Causes: In a study, 77%-bondage; 73%-anal rape;60%-blunt force trauma; 57%-vaginal rape
Medications: 40% penetration with a foreign object; and 40% offender kept a souvenir.
Therapies:
Youtube Video: Sadism, Masochism, Abuse
Amazon or Library Book: Sadism & Masochism
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- "It Felt Sexually Liberating": An Examination of How Black Women's Awareness of Kink and BDSM Informs Their Sex Livesby Natalie Malone on November 19, 2024
Kink and BDSM can have healing and liberatory potential for practitioners, whether kink-identified or not, particularly Black women and those who are members of alternative sexual communities. This study presents data from N = 22 kink/BDSM-identified, experienced, and non-kinky/BDSM Black ciswomen on their awareness of and engagement in kink and BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism, dominance, and submission). Qualitative data were from Phase Two of The Big Sex Study, a...
- How Spiteful Are We? Validation of the Spitefulness Scale in Spaniardsby David Pineda on November 12, 2024
Spitefulness has been defined as the willingness to cause some kind of harm to other people, even if this action does not bring any benefit and causes harm to herself. Given its relationship with a multitude of antisocial behaviors, interest in studying this trait has been growing and it was in 2014 when the first scale to measure it was validated: the Spitefulness Scale. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of its Spanish version. In a sample of 758 participants (M = 31.44;...
- The influence of dark personality and pornography on sexual aggression beliefsby Manuel Galán on November 12, 2024
CONCLUSION: This emphasizes the role of personality traits in influencing attitudes towards sexual aggression myths. Moreover, implications for tailored prevention strategies, focusing on high-risk profiles, are discussed, highlighting the potential for targeted interventions to address harmful beliefs and behaviours.
- Investigating the Invisible: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Testing the Entertainment-Education Model to Provide a PrEP Education Intervention to Kink-Involved Populationsby Richard A Sprott on November 7, 2024
A growing proportion of the global population engages in alternative sexual behaviors and relationships, which are commonly grouped and known as kink or BDSM (bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism). Mainstream stigma and provider pathologizing of these behaviors and relationships may make kink-involved populations reticent to seek health care treatment. Moreover, some kink activities appear to expose kink-involved people to higher risks for HIV infection. To date, no studies...