Other authors prefer the narrower term algolagnia which emphasizes the pleasure in pain and cruelty, whereas the terms selected by v. Krafft-Ebing place the pleasure secured in all kinds of humility and submission in the foreground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex] Reference

This is notably the case as regards homosexuality, auto-erotism, and algolagnia, all of which phenomena have therefore been separately discussed in previous studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference

In algolagnia, as in music, it is not cruelty that is sought; it is the joy of being plunged among the waves of that great primitive ocean of emotions which underlies the variegated world of our everyday lives, and pain -- a pain which, as we have seen, is often deprived so far as possible of cruelty, though sometimes by very thin and feeble devices -- is merely the channel by which that ocean is reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference

Pain the essential element in algolagnia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference