Zoosadism is a type of Sadism in which it involves pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It can also be a paraphilia, where people are sexually aroused by torturing animals. Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that have been considered a precursor to psychopathic behavior.
Zoosadism is a type of Sadism in which it involves pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It can also be a paraphilia, where people are sexually aroused by torturing animals. Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that have been considered a precursor to psychopathic behavior.
==Research== Some studies have suggested that individuals who are cruel to animals are more likely to be violent to humans. According to The New York Times:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).