I'm wondering now. Sexual sadism isn't really about sadism. I really think it's a misnomer. It should be named sexual power fixations, because the sadism part of it is really more of a means to an end, the end being power over someone else. As I said, now I am wondering, if from the masochistic side it is like that as well, if the masochism is a means to an end, and that end also being about power, but rather than enforcing/showing that someone has power over someone else, giving it up.

And thanks.