The women came to reason. But just in case reason did not suffice, they thought to mention the possibility of a massive lawsuit against the American Psychiatric Association, charging it with violating ...

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 ...

Some scholars differentiate between sexual masochism and moral masochism— moral masochism has more to do with self- punishment for bad behavior; sexual masochism—which this article is primarily ...