[96] Colin Scott, “Sex and Art,” American Journal of Psychology, vol. vii, No. 2, p. 208.

[97] It must not be supposed that the attraction of fur or of the whip is altogether accounted for by such a casual early experience as in Sacher-Masoch’s case served to evoke it.  The whip we shall have to consider briefly later on.  The fascination exerted by fur, whether manifesting itself as love or fear, would appear to be very common in many children, and almost instinctive.  Stanley Hall, in his “Study of Fears” (American Journal of Psychology, vol. viii, p. 213) has obtained as many as 111 well-developed cases of fear of fur, or, as he terms it, doraphobia, in some cases appearing as early as the age of 6 months, and he gives many examples.  He remarks that the love of fur is still more common, and concludes that “both this love and fear are so strong and instinctive that they can hardly be fully accounted for without recourse to a time when association with animals was far closer than now, or perhaps when our remote ancestors were hairy.” (Cf.  “Erotic Symbolism,” iv, in the fifth volume of these Studies.)

[98] Fere, L’Instinct Sexuel, p. 138.

[99] Schrenck-Notzing, Zeitschrift fuer Hypnotismus, Bd. ix, ht. 2, 1899.

[100] Eulenburg, Sadismus und Masochismus, second edition, 1911, p. 5.

[101] I have elsewhere dealt with this point in discussing the special emotional tone of red (Havelock Ellis, “The Psychology of Red,” Popular Science Monthly, August and September, 1900).

[102] It is probable that the motive of sexual murders is nearly always to shed blood, and not to cause death.  Leppmann (Bulletin Internationale de Droit Penal, vol. vi, 1896, p. 115) points out that such murders are generally produced by wounds in the neck or mutilation of the abdomen, never by wounds of the head.  T. Claye Shaw, who terms the lust for blood hemothymia, has written an interesting and suggestive paper ("A Prominent Motive in Murder,” Lancet, June 19, 1909) on the natural fascination of blood.  Blumroeder, in 1830, seems to have been the first who definitely called attention to the connection between lust and blood.

[103] Fere, Revue de Chirurgie, March 10, 1905.

[104] H. Coutagne, “Cas de Perversion Sanguinaire de l’Instinct Sexuel,” Annales Medico-Psychologiques, July and August, 1893.  D.S.  Booth (Alienist and Neurologist, Aug., 1906) describes the case of a man of neurotic heredity who slightly stabbed a woman with a penknife when on his way to a prostitute.