Sadist

Sadist refers to:

• Sadistic personality disorder, is the term for individuals who derive pleasure from the suffering of others (e.g. crushing birds) (see also Antisocial personality disorder)

Sadist may also refer to:

Sexual practices

• BDSM, one who engages in the erotic (sexual) practices, interpersonal dynamics, or roleplaying involving bondage, dominance and submission, and masochism
• Sadomasochism, one who engages with consenting partners in aspects of pain or humiliation for sexual pleasure
• Sexual sadism disorder, one who suffers from a medical/psychological condition for sexual arousal from inflicting pain/humiliation on unwilling, non-consenting victims

Music

• Sadist (band), an Italian progressive death metal band
  • Sadist (album), their self-titled album
• "Sadist", a song by Stone Sour from House of Gold & Bones – Part 2

See also

• Cruelty
• Marquis de Sade, an 18th-century French writer from whom the term sadism is coined
• Sadism (disambiguation)