Sacher-Masoch
Americannoun
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Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
The song's title is based on is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2013
Her great-uncle, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, famously gave his name to masochism and Faithfull thinks she probably was a psychological masochist in her youth, always beating herself up.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
David Ives, the playwright, was inspired by “Venus im Pelz,” an 1870 novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2012
When, however, his wife explained to him that, after this incident, it was impossible for the servant to stay, Sacher-Masoch quite agreed and she was at once discharged.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis
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