Analysis of Sexual Sadism
An Analysis of Sexual Sadism
Albert Fish a psychiatric phenomenon, known for his sexual fetishes is what interested me to research sexual abnormalities. Sexual sadism will be the topic of my final project. “The feeling of sexual excitement resulting from administering pain, suffering, or humiliation to another person”(Fahmy, n.d.). The pain is real whether it is physical or psychological in nature. Sexual Sadism has been defined ambiguously in the DSM; it includes both sadistic sexual fantasies and the acting out of such fantasies (with the resultant harm or death to the victims). Sexual Sadism is a mental disorder; it is one of several paraphilias. “A paraphilia is a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme”(“Paraphilias”, 2013). Below I will describe the neuropsychological disorder, Sexual Sadism. Included in this analysis will be a brief history, the diagnostic criteria and the epidemiology.
Donatien Alphonse Francois Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), a French aristocrat who became notorious from his writings and actions of the 18th century. There are interesting similarities between de Sade’s younger years and the sexual perversions he later practiced.
“His father had sent him to live with a clergyman-uncle who happened to honor his Catholicism in the breach, initiating his nephew into a most active and varied sexual life, with on-the-premises orgies, and the like. When de Sade’s father got wind of this, he sent his son to boarding school run by the Jesuits. The new environment and schoolmasters subjected de Sade to repeated floggings, beatings on the buttocks, and other sex-tinged humiliations- which, it would appear, set the stage for de Sade’s perverse sexual ambitions of his later years. The details of his behaviors have been outlined in detail elsewhere” (Du Plessix-Gray 1998; Stone, Butler, &Young, 2009; Thomas, 1992).
De Sade, tells of his
Albert Fish a psychiatric phenomenon, known for his sexual fetishes is what interested me to research sexual abnormalities. Sexual sadism will be the topic of my final project. “The feeling of sexual excitement resulting from administering pain, suffering, or humiliation to another person”(Fahmy, n.d.). The pain is real whether it is physical or psychological in nature. Sexual Sadism has been defined ambiguously in the DSM; it includes both sadistic sexual fantasies and the acting out of such fantasies (with the resultant harm or death to the victims). Sexual Sadism is a mental disorder; it is one of several paraphilias. “A paraphilia is a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme”(“Paraphilias”, 2013). Below I will describe the neuropsychological disorder, Sexual Sadism. Included in this analysis will be a brief history, the diagnostic criteria and the epidemiology.
Donatien Alphonse Francois Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), a French aristocrat who became notorious from his writings and actions of the 18th century. There are interesting similarities between de Sade’s younger years and the sexual perversions he later practiced.
“His father had sent him to live with a clergyman-uncle who happened to honor his Catholicism in the breach, initiating his nephew into a most active and varied sexual life, with on-the-premises orgies, and the like. When de Sade’s father got wind of this, he sent his son to boarding school run by the Jesuits. The new environment and schoolmasters subjected de Sade to repeated floggings, beatings on the buttocks, and other sex-tinged humiliations- which, it would appear, set the stage for de Sade’s perverse sexual ambitions of his later years. The details of his behaviors have been outlined in detail elsewhere” (Du Plessix-Gray 1998; Stone, Butler, &Young, 2009; Thomas, 1992).
De Sade, tells of his