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  1. A desire to subject oneself to physical or
  2. mental pain, humiliation, or punishment, for
  3. erotic pleasure, to alleviate guilt, or out
  4. of destructive impulses turned inwards. The
  5. term is derived from Leopold von
  6. Sacher-Masoch.
  7.