FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Sadism is when a person derives pleasure as a direct result of others' suffering. Aspects of it include: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...
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Sadism is the sexual pleasure or gratification in the infliction of pain and suffering upon another person.
The counterpart of sadism is masochism, the sexual pleasure or gratification of having pain or suffering inflicted upon the self, often consisting of sexual fantasies or urges for being beaten, humiliated, bound, tortured, or otherwise made to suffer, either as an enhancement to or a substitute for sexual pleasure.
In general, the depiction of sadism and masochism in fiction tends to be portrayed from the viewpoint of masochistic fantasy.
(Sadism and masochism originate during the oral and anal phases of infantile development and are altered by later experience but their origin and growth is unconscious.
While the cruelty of sadism and the suffering of masochism may appear to be separate, both are always present, one overt and the other covert so their combination is called sadomasochism.) Paul Lowinger.
Sadism takes on many forms and is not always obvious until one realizes that one is doing something that one actually would not want to do because of the actions implemented by someone else.
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