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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895) was an Austrian writer and intellectual, best known as the man after whom the term masochism is named. His name became associated with the sexual preference for pain, humiliation, and submission, as described in his most famous work Venus im Pelz (Venus in Furs).

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Related terms

• Masochism
• Power
• Dominance
• Humiliation
• Surrender

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