Download or read book A Defense of Masochism written by Anita Phillips and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative expose, Anita Phillips intelligently rescues masochism from the clinical discourses that have named it a pathological sickness and returns it to a context of diverse human experience and artistic expression. What emerges is a fresh and fascinating modern view of longing, curiosity, and eroticism.