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21 " I belong to those who have ‘troubled the sleep of the world, "
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
22 " It was the same with Elizabeth of Genton. As a result of whipping she actually passed into a state of bacchanalian madness. As a rule, she raved when, excited by unusual flagellation, she believed herself united with her “ideal.” This condition was so exquisitely pleasant to her that she would frequently cry out, “O love, O eternal love, O love, O you creatures! cry out with me: ‘Love, Love! "
23 " There are some nations, viz., the Persians and Russians, where the women regard blows as a peculiar sign of love and favour. "
24 " he mentions that boys being spanked may experience incidental penile sensations (if held face down across the lap of the adult, or simply from friction against their own trousers), and consequently come to associate erotic pleasure with spanking, leading to a spanking fetish, and perhaps in some cases to sadism or masochism. "
25 " It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side of life. "
26 " He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality. "
27 " The majority of homosexuals are happy in their perverse sexual feeling and impulse, and unhappy only in so far as social and legal barriers stand in the way of the satisfaction of their instinct towards their own sex. "
28 " In homosexuals morally perverse and potent, in regard to erections, the sexual desire is satisfied by pederasty—an act, however, which is repugnant to perverted individuals that are not defective morally, much in the same way as it is to normal men. "
29 " Dancing with a woman is unpleasant to a homosexual, but to dance with a man, especially one with an attractive form, is to him the greatest of pleasures. "
30 " He preferred a hard, rough hand. "
31 " Masturbation should be carefully watched in both sexes. "
32 " Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes, and ascribes to it peculiar wonder-working (relics) or protective (amulets) virtues. "