Sexual sadism disorder is characterized by taking sexual pleasure from humiliation, fear, or another form of mental harm to a person. Sadistic acts include restraint (such as ropes, chains, or ...

Certain experts have been deliberating for a while now whether the dark triad should be converted into the dark tetrad with the addition of sadism, and to further enhance their research, they have ...

Sadists are often aggressive but only enjoy the feeling if it causes their victim emotional pain, psychologists have shown in a study. The paper published in the journal Personality and Social ...

Joanna Bourke receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. She is the director and Principal Investigator of a 5-year project on "Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry". Between the 1920s and the ...

Internet "trolls" — people who intentionally incite discord in online communities — may have a lot in common with real-life sadists, new research suggests. In two studies conducted online, researchers ...

Sexual sadism disorder is characterized by taking sexual pleasure from humiliation, fear, or another form of mental harm to a person. Sadistic acts include restraint (such as ropes, chains, or ...