Masochism was the term initially used by the famed Austrian psychiatrist Richard Von Krafft-Ebing, author of the classic text, Psychopathia Sexualis (1931). Krafft-Ebing named masochism after the ...
Sexual masochism can be a paradoxical behavior. According to the DSM-V (2013), the focus of sexual masochism involves the act of experiencing—over a period of at least six months—sexual arousal from ...