Sadism's the derivation of pleasure as a result of inflicting pain or watching pain, and death inflicted on others. Aspects of it include: Sadomasochism Sadism and masochism as medical terms, sadism and masochism as paraphilia Sadistic personality disorder, nonsexual sadism See also Disturb Children Marquis de Sade, an eighteenth-century French writer from which the term sadism's coined… (More on Sadism)