被ひ虐ぎゃく性せい愛あい

noun

sexual masochism

A formal or clinical term for deriving sexual pleasure from receiving pain or humiliation. In everyday conversation, the loanword マゾヒズム or the abbreviation マゾ is more common.

• 被ひ虐ぎゃく性せい愛あいは、精せい神しん医い学がくの分ぶん野やで研けん究きゅうされることがある。

  Sexual masochism is sometimes studied in the field of psychiatry.