Gerald and Elaine like to engage in mutually gratifying sex play in which one of them uses a

feather brush to strike the other.

No actual pain is administered; it is more the sense of
dominating or being dominated that each of them finds gratifying, and they frequently switch
roles so that one time Gerald uses the brush on Elaine, and other times Elaine uses the brush
on Gerald. Their behavior is typical of ______.
a. sadism c. sadomasochism
b. masochism d. scatologia


C

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