masochist

(person) by amos moses (6.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Aug 27 2000 at 19:18:26

OK, so there's something out there--doesn't matter what it is--that's going to happen to you eventually, even though you don't want it to. This makes you feel hopeless. You don't like feeling hopeless, so you try to hasten the arrival of this thing that you don't want to happen to you in order to eliminate this hopeless feeling. You feel relieved when it's gone. Congratulations: you're a masochist.

Of course, there are also folks who just plain enjoy being tied up and whipped. I'm not sure how to explain them...

(thing) by Eraser_ (4.6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Nov 05 2000 at 23:23:05

masochist: The paraphile fixated on the condition of being responsive to or dependent on being the recipient of punishment and humiliation in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. As the partner of a sadist, a person may impersonate a masochist for commercial gain, within the limits set by the pain threshold.

Dictionary of Sexology Project: Main Index

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Do masochists enjoy slamming their fingers in a car door?	submissive	masochism	Narcissists - How to cope with them
"Sex, as they harshly call it"	Candle Wax	Dictionary of Sexology	An M pretending to be an S
masochistic	sadomasochist	sadomasochistic	glutton for punishment
Chicago Cubs	Causing pain is not necessarily evil	I like my coffee the way I like my women	sadist
Am I broken?	Submissive Women, Persephone, and schoolgirls	Running is masochism in disguise	You don't have to be a vegetarian to like vegetarian food
taking surveys for fictitious newspapers	The homosexual agenda	I've accepted the way it is and it doesn't hurt so much	Negative reviews are more fun to read than positive reviews

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