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[gagged_Louise]

you have a lot of news stories, documentaries, and true crime books covering people who rape and kill, but I have never heard of one who killed for sexual pleasure

I think there are such people, even if the sexual turn-on would often be mingled with the jolt of power, having someone bound and begging not to be killed. It used to be called "lust murder" (lustmord in German and Swedish). The word may sound strange but the linking is a reality with certain criminals I think: they get off on the act of torturing and killing without consent, of watching their victim humiliated and knowing he/she will die. Some cannibalism cases are probably like that, I wouldn't want to say if Armin Meiwes belongs there but he might. And with some serial killers and rapists, I think the idea that killing and destroying is directly linked to sexual release, like a pyromaniac setting off fire, is hard to deny.

This is not at all the same as sadism in a BDSM sense of course, though some sex stories seem to show men (less often women) that could be labeled both as Dominants and as people possessed with a desire to kill and see their object painfully destroyed.