automasochism:

Self infliction of pain or injury as a means of stimulating arousal, orgasm , an altered state, or an emotional release that would act as a substitute for orgasm . Synonym: deliberate-self-harm-syndrome .
See also: apotemnophilia ; asphyxiophilia ; autoassassinatophilia ; autoflagellation ; Munchausen's syndrome (reopening a wound); Sergeism (infliction of injury to suppress arousal); stigmatophilia; traumaphilia (arousal from trauma).
See Also: autodermatophagia, autoflagellation, deliberate self-harm syndrome, self-flagellation, traumaphilia, traumatophilia

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