Trait where a subject derives gratification from someone elses suffering

Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forencis study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ; only authorized English adaptation of the twelfth German edition by F. J. Rebman.

Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.

Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forensic study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ... The only authorised English translation of the tenth German edition.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 34.3 x 29.7 cm.

Our dark side : a history of perversion / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by David Macey.

Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. III, Analysis of the sexual impulse : Love and pain / by Havelock Ellis.

232 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

Second skin : inside the worlds of fetish, kink and deviant desire / Anastasiia Fedorova.

Analysis of the sexual impulse / by Havelock Ellis.

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Sadism

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Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.

Our dark side : a history of perversion / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by David Macey.

Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. III, Analysis of the sexual impulse : Love and pain / by Havelock Ellis.

Second skin : inside the worlds of fetish, kink and deviant desire / Anastasiia Fedorova.

Analysis of the sexual impulse / by Havelock Ellis.

Sadism

Images from the collections

Images about Sadism

Works from the collections

Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.

Our dark side : a history of perversion / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by David Macey.

Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. III, Analysis of the sexual impulse : Love and pain / by Havelock Ellis.

Second skin : inside the worlds of fetish, kink and deviant desire / Anastasiia Fedorova.

Analysis of the sexual impulse / by Havelock Ellis.

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