Women prefer less intense forms of masochism usually related to a relationship (light spanking); men prefer acts that reduce their status as a man (being forced to kiss a partner’s feet or being ...
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 ...