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Sadism is the derivation of pleasure as a result of inflicting pain, or watching pain inflicted, on others. Aspects of it include:

• Sadomasochism
• Sadism and masochism as medical terms
• Sadistic personality disorder

See also

• Marquis de Sade, an eighteenth-century French writer

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