algolagnia

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Other authors prefer the narrower term algolagnia which emphasizes the pleasure in pain and cruelty, whereas the terms selected by v. Krafft-Ebing place the pleasure secured in all kinds of humility and submission in the foreground The roots of active algolagnia, sadism, can be readily demonstrable in the normal.

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  • "I do not say that the adepts of Valerian House are unskilled in the arts of algolagnia, Miriam, but how long has it been since they've had a true anguissette under their roof Too long." —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • While Delaunay was skeptical, he was forced to admit that his knowl edge of the arts of algolagnia were as purely academic as Cecilie's. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Other authors prefer the narrower term algolagnia which emphasizes the pleasure in pain and cruelty, whereas the terms selected by v. Krafft-Ebing place the pleasure secured in all kinds of humility and submission in the foreground The roots of active algolagnia, sadism, can be readily demonstrable in the normal. —  Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
  • Active algolagnia or sadism is thus a form of erotic symbolism; passive algolagnia or masochism is (in a man) an inverted form of erotic symbolism. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • Leaving out of account the precocious movements of the sexual instinct to which I have already referred as colored by psychic algolagnia, I may say that somewhat later, from the age of puberty and onward, I had three or four love affairs, devoid of any algolagnic tendency, and considerably more developed on the psychic and emotional, than on the physical, side. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
 

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  1. New Latin : algo- + Greek lagneia, lust (from lagnos, lustful; see slēg- in Indo-European roots).
 

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