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Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism combines sadism and masochism, terms coined by Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) after de Sade and Sacher-Masoch; consensual forms fall under BDSM, while ICD-11 recognizes only coercive sexual sadism disorder.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash (صفية فركاش), also Safia Farkash Al-Barassi, is the widow of Muammar Gaddafi, his second wife since 1970, mother of seven of his eight children, a UN-sanctioned individual from 2011, and majority shareholder of Buraq Air.
Sahel displacement crisis
The Sahel displacement crisis is the large-scale forced displacement within and from the Sahel region of Africa, driven by armed conflict and compounded by climate shocks, food insecurity, and economic fragility.
Saima Wazed
Saima Wazed (সায়মা ওয়াজেদ), Bangladeshi school psychologist and autism advocate, daughter of Sheikh Hasina; WHO South-East Asia Regional Director February 2024 to September 2026, ending in fraud allegations, leave, and resignation.
Saini
Saini (सैनी/ਸੈਣੀ), a northern Indian community of Punjab and adjoining regions claiming Yaduvanshi Rajput (Shoorsaini/Surasena of Mathura) descent; OBC-listed in Haryana, Delhi, and Rajasthan; distinct from Mali-Saini groups elsewhere; Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini is a prominent member.
Saint Thomas Christians
Saint Thomas Christians (Nasrani) are the ancient indigenous Christians of Kerala, India, tracing origin to Apostle Thomas (traditionally landed at Muziris, 52 CE), long tied to the East Syriac Church of the East, divided by the 1599 Synod of Diamper and the 1653 Coonan Cross Oath into Syro-Malabar, Malankara Orthodox, and other churches.
Saiseikai
Saiseikai (済生会), formally the Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, is a Japanese social welfare corporation founded by Emperor Meiji in 1911 to bring medical care to the poor.
Saka
Saka (Old Persian Sakā; Chinese Sai; Greek Sacae): Iranian-speaking nomadic peoples of the first millennium BCE, the Persians' name for the Scythians, with branches from the Black Sea to Khotan and Indo-Scythian kingdoms in India.
Sakhalin Koreans
Sakhalin Koreans (사할린 한인) are ethnic Koreans, mostly coal miners, brought to Sakhalin under Japanese rule and stranded there after Japan's 1945 defeat for over four decades.
Sakiko Kanase (金勢さき子)
Sakiko Kanase (金勢さき子), also Saliku Maesaroh or Suō Sakiko, was a Japanese model and hostess who became Sukarno's companion or wife and died in Jakarta in 1959, weeks after Ratna Sari Dewi arrived; birth and death dates differ across sources.
Salish Sea human foot discoveries
Salish Sea human foot discoveries: over 20 detached feet, mostly in sneakers, found on British Columbia and Washington coasts since the 2007 Jedediah Island find; explained by natural disarticulation, buoyant modern shoes, and currents, not foul play.
Saloth family
Saloth family (Loth family), the family of Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), Khmer Rouge ruler of Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1979: prosperous Kampong Thom peasants with royal-palace ties, siblings Saloth Nhep, Seng, Chhay, Roeung, Suong, and nephew Saloth Ban, ECCC witness.
Salvatore Cordileone
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born 1956, San Diego) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco since 2012, former USCCB marriage-defense chairman, Proposition 8 fundraiser, and 2026 appointee to the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura.
Salwan Momika
Salwan Momika, Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist known for 2023 Quran burnings in Stockholm with Salwan Najem; deported in 2024, charged with hate speech, shot dead in Södertälje in January 2025.
Sam Brinton
Sam Brinton (Samuel Otis Brinton, born 1987) is an American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist, first openly genderfluid DOE official, fired in December 2022 after airport luggage theft charges; known for anti-conversion therapy advocacy.
Sam Childers
Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American missionary and author who founded Angels of East Africa, an orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, for children affected by the LRA; his armed-rescue claims are disputed by the SPLA.
Sama-Bajau
Sama-Bajau (Bajau, Bajo, Badjao): Austronesian maritime people of the Philippines, Borneo, and eastern Indonesia, historically boat-dwelling sea nomads, now largely settled and many stateless.
Sambo (racial term)
Sambo is a racial term with two English senses: a 1748 term for mixed African, European, and Indigenous ancestry (from Spanish zambo), and an 1818 derogatory name for a Black man tied to the submissive Sambo stereotype of slavery and Jim Crow, spread by Bannerman's 1898 book and the Sambo's restaurant chain.
Samburu people
The Samburu (also Burkeneji, Sampur) are a Maa-speaking Nilotic pastoral people of Samburu County, north-central Kenya, closely related to the Maasai, numbering about 250,000, with gerontocratic age-set (moran) society and cattle-based livelihood.
Same-different task
The same-different task is a perceptual judgment experiment in which a participant decides whether two stimuli are the same or different, used in psychology since the 1960s.
Same-sex adoption in the United States
Same-sex adoption in the United States, also called LGBT or gay adoption, is legal nationwide for married couples after Obergefell (2015) and the 2017 Supreme Court ruling, though religious-exemption laws and second-parent adoption restrictions persist in some states.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also called marriage equality or gay marriage, is legally recognized marriage between same-sex couples, first national law in the Netherlands April 1, 2001, now legal in 39 countries and a US constitutional right since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
Same-sex marriage debate in literature
The same-sex marriage debate in literature is the body of essays, books, and law review articles arguing for and against same-sex marriage, chiefly from 1989 onward.
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda: legal May 2017 to June 2018, then banned by the Domestic Partnership Act 2018, upheld by the Privy Council in 2022; domestic partnerships and pre-2022 marriages remain recognized.
Same-sex marriage in Canada
Same-sex marriage in Canada has been legal nationwide since the Civil Marriage Act (Bill C-38), royal assent July 20, 2005, making Canada the fourth country after the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain; provincial court rulings under the Charter began in Ontario in 2003.
Same-sex marriage in Mexico
Same-sex marriage (matrimonio igualitario) in Mexico: legal in all 32 states since Tamaulipas's October 2022 vote, starting with Mexico City in December 2009, upheld and extended by Supreme Court rulings in 2010, 2012 and 2015.
Same-sex marriage in Taiwan
Same-sex marriage in Taiwan, legalized 24 May 2019 under the Act implementing Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 748, made Taiwan the first in Asia; extended to cross-national couples (2023), adoption (2023), and cross-strait couples (2024).
Same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands
Same-sex marriage is not legal in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, but the Civil Partnership Law 2020 gives same-sex couples unions with rights equivalent to marriage.
Same-sex marriage in the United States
Same-sex marriage in the United States, also called marriage equality, is legal nationwide since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), after Hawaii's 1993 ruling, state and federal DOMAs, Massachusetts (2003), and Windsor (2013).
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States is governed by each tribe's own laws; at least fourteen tribes allow it, since the 2015 Obergefell ruling does not bind tribes.