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  • Most of the stories were insightful with just the right touch of humor (okay, I hated the professor/Masochistic student relationship bit).

    Daddies dearest 2010

  • The Quotes were from Twilight of course Edwards “You dont Know how long Ive waited for you” plus “Sick Masochistic Lion” and Bellas “I dream about being with you forever” and “Stupid Lamb”

    Twilight Lexicon » Book Babe Wrap Up Final Part 2009

  • We need more consentual Sado-Masochistic sexual relationships celebrated in our places of work.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Masochistic nationalism may seem counter-intuitive to our normative understanding of national character since masochism carries with it the connotation of perversion,

    The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

  • Masochistic nationalism may seem counter-intuitive to our normative understanding of national character since masochism carries with it the connotation of perversion, a turning aside from truth or right, and specifically a turning from pleasure to pain.

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • Masochistic spicy food lovers who thrive on the endorphins and euphoria caused by the burning sensation from their capsaicin-stuffed Habaneros and Scotch Bonnets probably don't head to burger chains for their chili pepper fix--they prefer eye-watering, heart-pounding Mexican and Indian haunts where the beer is cold and the Scoville Units go through the roof.

    Skinner's McDonald's Offers Spicy New Item 2006

  • The editorial of Serge July in Liberation is as bitter as it can get for a supporter of the OUI: Masochistic masterpiece.

    The French NO to Europe: Exit polls revealing 2005

  • The editorial of Serge July in Liberation is as bitter as it can get for a supporter of the OUI: Masochistic masterpiece.

    05/29/2005 - 06/05/2005 2005

  • If Peter were a Sadist in his cruelty, my cruelty to him was giving unconscious gratification to the Masochistic part of him.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • Masochistic phantasies, wondering and imitating how it would sound to talk with the tongue cut out.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

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