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masochist

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someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment

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A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist. Sigmund Freud

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist. Gloria Steinem

The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Every day, just you living means the misery and death of plants and animals- and even some people. "Slaughterhouses, factory farms, sweatshops," she says, "like it or not, that's what your money buys." Chuck Palahniuk

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you. John Kennedy Toole

When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment? Steven Wright

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death. Howard Keel

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