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sexual sadism

sexual interest in inflicting pain, suffering or humiliation on others; the active side of sadomasochism
MedicalCondition paraphilia Q18553947
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Summary

sexual sadism is a paraphilia[1]. It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sadism[3], sadomasochism[4], paraphilia[5]
  • Opposite of: Q130216051[6]
  • ICD-9-CM: 302.84[7]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C94358[8]
  • Different from: sexual sadism disorder[9], coercive sexual sadism disorder[10], Q141740390[11]
  • Health specialty: psychiatry[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10817[13], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10817[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Merck Manual Professional Edition. Retrieved . msdmanuals.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ICD-10. Retrieved . icd.who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . DSM-5-TR. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ICD-11. Retrieved . icd.who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . doi.org. Retrieved . doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1h ago · Vlsergey · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → sadism, sadomasochism, paraphilia
    Wikipedia languages → ['fi', 'fr', 'it', 'pl', 'ru', 'sk', 'sv']
    Sitelink count → 7
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||sv */ Sexual sadism (interest): deprecate P31 paraphilia (a class; sourced P279 paraphilia stays) and P1995 psychiatry (belongs to diagnosis Q136324"
  2. 2d ago · Vlsergey · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imported from → —
    Disease ontology id → DOID:10817
    Opposite of → Q130216051
    Gsso id → 001294
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||ar, ru, de, fr, es, it, pl, uk, nl, pt, ja, zh, fi, hy, en, nb */ Sexual sadism as an interest: labels, descriptions; subclass of S&M; different fro"
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