“…Krafft-Ebing described sexual deviations and perversions in one of the first texts about sexual pathology, the “Psychopathia sexualis” [ 13 ]. The term “sadomasochism,” accrued later on, may has resulted by the widespread tendency to live out such preferences with a counterpart, which is slightly replaced by the term of BDSM, subsuming common manifestations such as shackles and discipline (“bondage” and “discipline”), dominance and submission (“dominance” and “submission”), and sadism and masochism in the sense of pain, suffering, and humiliation (“sadism” and “masochism”) [ 14 ]. Anyway, the historical definitions of sadism and masochism or sadomasochism, respectively, represented the basis for the diagnostic classification systems ICD and DSM for a long time, in which sadomasochism was classified as a sexual paraphilia, not distinguishing whether these sexual practices were carried out consensual or non-consensual, until the ICD-10 and DSM-IV [ 13 ].…”