First introduced in sexual studies by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the 6th (1890) edition of his Psychopathia sexualis as “the association of active cruelty and violence with desire” (“Verbindung von aktiver Grausamkeit und Gewalttätigkeit mit Wollust”) [4], the term “sadism” references the French author Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade. In his cardinal work of 1791, Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (“Justine, or: The Misfortunes of Virtue”), Sade made his virtuous protagonist the victim of sexual violence at the hands of unbridled libertines, in order to …