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No they are not related to nor satanic in any way. Although, as with any person, or group of people, there may be satanists among them as a small subset of the group.

teh definituion of masochist follows:

masochist

masochism -/[mas-uh-kiz-uhm, maz-]

--noun
1. Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
2. gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc., inflicted or imposed on oneself, either as a result of one's own actions or the actions of others, esp. the tendency to seek this form of gratification.
3. the act of turning one's destructive tendencies inward or upon oneself.
4. the tendency to find pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc.
Origin:
1890--95; named after L. von Sacher-Masoch, who described it

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