Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
by
Alison M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized...