How to Use sadomasochism in a Sentence

sadomasochism

noun
  • Free inquiry must serve greater ends than studies of sadomasochism and pornography.
    — Benjamin Woodard, National Review, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Blood, sadomasochism, handcuffs and prison cells — this was erotic torment underlined by swirling soul-rock arrangements.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
  • The sexy video featured hints of sadomasochism, voyeurism and more, and while very suggestive, wasn't altogether explicit.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Two razor blades were nearby, as was a pornographic magazine depicting bondage and sadomasochism.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Police also searched his phone and found visits to a sadomasochism fetish website with discussion threads on kidnapping fantasies.
    — Dawn Rhodes, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Mistress Ruby Ties It Together, which explores the bizarre world of sadomasochism.
    — M.j. Rose, WIRED, 17 July 2001
  • Well before the rise of punk and heavy metal, Anger was juxtaposing music with bikers, sadomasochism, occultism and Nazi imagery.
    — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • The narratives will converge, but not before traversing a louche landscape of sadomasochism and genital mutilation.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • In the world of bondage, discipline, sadomasochism — BDSM — submissives don’t ask questions.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Police also searched his phone and found visits to a sadomasochism fetish website with discussion threads on kidnapping fantasies, prosecutors have alleged.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
  • The awful sadomasochism of the moment is that what starts as a hug is a trap, once Roman realizes what Kendall is doing — that this hug is actually to tear those stitches apart.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 May 2023
  • The writers give us generous dollops of that duo's symbiotic sadomasochism in the early episodes, which the actors execute with their typical thrust-and-parry finesse.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Models of addiction, madness, and sadomasochism were as available to the young Williams as the works of Milton, Dickens, and Shakespeare were.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Cronenberg’s most recent project is Crimes of the Future, a jaw-dropping exploration of sadomasochism and body modification.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Is there a scientific explanation for this auditory sadomasochism?
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019
  • His 2016 Thelma, about a self-denying teenage lesbian, mixed sci-fi speculation with sadomasochism to reveal the source of a young girl’s power over her oppressors.
    — Armond White, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The answer is not much—Fennell makes explicit, via sadomasochism, the power differentials and emotional degradations that are so often ambiguous in the original.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • At the event, which drew about eight hundred people, antiporn feminists distributed leaflets accusing the organizers of supporting sadomasochism, violence against women, and pedophilia.
    — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Their history of consensual acts of bondage, sadomasochism and domination adds an additional complication to the prosecution’s attempt to demonstrate abuse.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Gayle Rubin and Pat Califia write articles calling all consensual acts, including sadomasochism, a form of women’s emancipation.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • What the restaurant represents to its supporters (and those hesitant but curious) is a shift in public interest in, and acceptance of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism (BDSM).
    — Victoria M. Walker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • Federal authorities seized thousands of child pornographic images from Mandish’s computers, including hundreds of videos that included images of prepubescent children, bestiality, bondage, sadomasochism and rape, Maloney told the court.
    — oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019

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