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Masochism involves the desire for and enjoyment of sexual experiences
involving pain, loss of control, and humiliation. Empirical findings a
bout masochism are reviewed, and an integrative theory is proposed bas
ed on the notion that masochism rosters an escape from the stressful a
wareness of one's ordinary identity.