A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison.

ALBANY, N.Y. — A Kingston man has pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing materials containing “sadistic and masochistic conduct, and the sexual abuse and exploitation of toddlers,” federal ...

Masochism was the term initially used by the famed Austrian psychiatrist Richard Von Krafft-Ebing, author of the classic text, Psychopathia Sexualis (1931). Krafft-Ebing named masochism after the ...

Over the past few weeks in this series, we have been exploring paraphilic disorders, mental health conditions that involve ...

Sadomasochism can be defined as the taking of pleasure, often sexual in nature, from the inflicting or suffering of pain, hardship, or humiliation. It can feature as an enhancement to sexual ...