Roles
Emotional Sadist
Short Definition
An emotional sadist is someone who engages in sadism with a primary preference for psychological/emotional pain over physical pain.
Detailed Explanation
An emotional sadist is someone who engages in sadism with a primary preference for psychological/emotional pain over physical pain.
This generally means someone whose erotic landscape is built around humiliating, degrading, and inspiring shame in someone else, or simply igniting feelings like stress, fear and thrill in them.
An emotional sadist is the counterpart to an emotional masochist.
Source
This entry is based on an article from the FetLife Kinktionary. The content has been translated and adapted for the Kinky Circle Wiki.