learned today (after googling it upon seeing the “Sadomasochism Brothers” post) that masochism was named by a psychiatrist who had read Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s erotic writing and was like “I feel safe in concluding that this man had Fucked-Up Freak Sex Disorder, which now until forever will bear his name”, while von Sacher-Masoch was still alive. there are accounts of von Sacher-Masoch being like “bro what the fuck” about this
if the marquis de sade saw that sadism had been named after him, he would go “fuck yes”
oh no i’m being humiliated in public i hate this - Mr Masochism