A condition in which there is a derivation of pleasure from inflicting pain, discomfort or humiliation on another person or persons. The sexual significance of sadistic wishes or behavior may be conscious or unconscious.
    

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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.

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.

Beiträge zur Analyse des Sadismus und Masochismus. I, Die Quellen des männlichen Sadismus / von Dr. Paul Federn.

Analysis of the sexual impulse / by Havelock Ellis.

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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.

Beiträge zur Analyse des Sadismus und Masochismus. I, Die Quellen des männlichen Sadismus / von Dr. Paul Federn.

Analysis of the sexual impulse / by Havelock Ellis.