Muscles are made of many individual muscle fibers. Muscle fibers are long, cylindrical cells giving skeletal muscles their striped or striated appearance. Muscle fibers are the primary component responsible for muscle contraction.
Masochism and sadism are both about the enjoyment of pain. Masochism refers to the enjoyment of experiencing pain while sadism refers to the enjoyment of inflicting pain on someone else. Interestingly, both masochism and sadism are eponymous words. English has thousands of such words, taken from the names of people both real and fictional.
KrÃ¶nung des Tugendhelden by Peter Paul Rubens. Machismo (/mÉËtÊiËzmoÊ, mÉË-, -ËtÊÉª-/; Spanish: [maËtÊismo]; Portuguese: [maËÊizmu] (from Spanish and Portuguese macho, male)) is the sense of being 'manly' and self-reliant, the concept associated with a strong sense of masculine pride: an exaggerated masculinity..