num_pages: 165
description: In this provocative expose, Anita Phillips intelligently rescues masochism from the clinical discourses that have named it a pathological sickness and returns it to a context of diverse human experience and artistic expression. What emerges is a fresh and fascinating modern view of longing, curiosity, and eroticism.
language: English
title: A Defense of Masochism
titlecomplete: A Defense of Masochism
genres: Sexuality, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Theory, BDSM, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 39
publisher: St Martins Pr