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1 " How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females. "
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
2 " All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. "
3 " I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well. "
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing
4 " Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. "
5 " He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. "
6 " All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable. "
7 " The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. "
8 " I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. "
9 " There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end. "
10 " CASE 146. Once summer's evening, at twilight, X.Y., a doctor of medicine in a North German city, was trodden on by a watchman as he (the doctor) was committing an immoral act with a tramp on a path in a field. He was practicing masturbation on him and thereupon putting the tramp's penis into his mouth. "
11 " She said she had always been indifferent towards men. In fact, she avoided balls. "
12 " When looking out of a window, he became dizzy and anxious. He was a perverse, peculiar, and easily embarrassed man, of bad mental constitution. "
13 " His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile. "
14 " He loved to eat rats and cats. "
15 " Thus masochism and sadism appear as the fundamental forms of psychosexual perversion, which may make their appearance at any point in the domain of sexual aberration. "
16 " The chief reason why inverted sexuality in woman is still covered with the veil of mystery is that the homosexual act so far as woman is concerned, does not fall under the law. "
17 " CASE 116. L., aged thirty-seven, clerk, from tainted family, had his first erection at five years, when he saw his bed-fellow—an aged relative—put on his night-cap. "
18 " The condition of the anus indicated passive pederasty. "
19 " Almost every masturbator at last reaches a point where, frightened on learning the results of the vice, or on experiencing them (neurasthenia), or led by example or seduction to the opposite sex, he wishes to free himself of the vice and re-instate his sexual life. "
20 " The result of this marriage was, after five years, two children, and a collection of seventy-two wigs. "
