Sado-masochism is a combination of the words sadism, meaning to take pleasure in inflicting pain on others, and masochism, to take pleasure in pain inflicted on you. Together, the term sado-masochism refers to a wide spectrum of kinky sex relating to pain.
by TheArgonaut October 26, 2006
That particular cup caused me the most distress although my jockstrap masochism is something I’ve always worn like a man.
by Dr Bunnygirl January 12, 2019
named after the Marquis de Sade (1700's), it is the act of sexual pleasure through deliberate infliction of pain and most often involves role playing
by D. Smith September 24, 2006
Within the field of Information Technology, the act of implementing, possibly but not necessarily, good practice configurations without any business value just for the sake of using the available functionality and thereby creating the feeling of self satisfaction which has as the consequence that other involved parties are hindered in performing their day to day operations which invokes great frustration for said parties.
An architect suffering of configuration masochism designs the configuration of a totally private cloud instance in such a way that for each department in the company a small "firewalled" subnet is created while discarding the fact that in the end all services implemented by each department within their respective network segments have to communicate to each other in a non predictable way. Because of that an endless set of firewall and routing rules have to be created to make communication between these services possible which defeats the purpose of having firewalled network segments in the first place.
by ABloodCryingEngineer March 29, 2013
A faction of the BDSM lifestyle shared by many people globally. It is named for both Marquis de Sade (120 Days of Sodom) of noble French birth and also for Leopold van Sacher Masoch (Venus in Furs). Both writers represent the two extremes of the spectrum. Sade represents male dominance, while Masoch represents male subservience. Hence the word we use today is a combination of the two.
Since his teen years he had been reading fictional tales of sado-masochism, and now he finally got the courage to indulge his fantasies. He stepped into the dungeon, dropped to his knees, and beheld his new Mistress. Tonight he would become powerless.
by Dame Alexza February 23, 2009
To be excited by the object of ones unrequited desire's cruelty to loved ones or third parties as a means of personal subjugation.
To enjoy the cruelty of the powerful over the powerless when powerless yourself.
To enjoy the cruelty of the powerful over the powerless when powerless yourself.
When the one you can't have insists on being cruel to the one you've got, and you cum in your pants? That's not even masochism, it's masochism by proxy.
by Rick.T.Urbane April 23, 2015
Deliberately choosing songs to sing at karaoke for which you have neither the voice range or tone, and taking a perverse pleasure as you struggle painfully through it.
Antonym - karaoke sadism
Antonym - karaoke sadism
Gina: I don't know why Lisa keeps choosing those high pitched songs. She doesn't have the voice for it at all.
Tom: Maybe she's into karaoke masochism.
Tom: Maybe she's into karaoke masochism.
by Lex Sleuthor May 29, 2009