ABSTRACT
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) has defined sexual sadism as recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the physical or psychological suffering of another person. Sexual sadism was conceptualized as if sadists were fundamentally different from non-sadists; however, recent studies concerned with latent structure suggest that sadism represents a dimensional construct rather than a categorical entity (Knight, Sims-Knight, & Guay, 2013; Longpré, Guay, Knight, & Benbouriche, 2018; Mokros, Schilling, Weiss, Nitschke, & Eher, 2014). The Massachusetts Treatment Center Sadism Scale (MTCSS; Longpré, Guay, & Knight, 2019) was developed in this context.
