such stories produced the first spontaneous emission.  Thus, he imagines, for instance, a young girl from the country who comes up to Paris by train; on the way a lady is attracted by her, takes an interest in her, brings her home to dinner, and at last can no longer resist the temptation to take the girl in her arms and whip her amorously.  He writes out these scenes and illustrates them with drawings, many of which Regis reproduces.  He has even written comedies in which whipping plays a prominent part.  He has, moreover, searched public libraries for references to flagellation, inserted queries in the Intermediare des Chercheurs et des Curieux, and thus obtained a complete bibliography of flagellation which is of considerable value.  Regis is acquainted with these Archives de la Fessee, and states that they are carried on with great method and care.  He is especially interested in the whipping of women by women.  He considers that the pleasure of whippings should always be shared by the person whipped, and he is somewhat concerned to find that he has an increasing inclination to imagine an element of cruelty in the whipping.  Emissions are somewhat frequent.  According to the latest information, he is much better; he has entered into sexual relationship with a woman who is much in love with him, and to whom he has confided his peculiarities.  With her aid and suggestions he has been able to have intercourse with her, at the moment of coitus whipping her with a harmless India-rubber tube.  (E.  Regis, “Un Cas de Perversion Sexuelle, a forme Sadique,” Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelles, July, 1899.)

In a case also occurring in a highly educated man (narrated by Marandon de Montyel) a doctor of laws, brilliantly intellectual and belonging to a family in which there had been some insanity, when at school at the age of 11, saw for the first time a schoolfellow whipped on the nates, and experienced a new pleasure and emotion.  He was never himself whipped at school, but would invent games with his sisters and playfellows in which whipping formed an essential part.  At the age of 13 he teased a young woman, a cook, until she seized him and whipped him.  He put his arms around her and experienced his first voluptuous spasm of sex.  The love of flagellation temporarily died out, however, and gave place to masturbation and later to a normal attraction to women.  But at the age of 32 the old ideas were aroused anew by a story his mistress told him.  He suffered from various obsessions and finally committed suicide. (Marandon de Montyel, “Obsessions et Vie Sexuelle,” Archives de Neurologie, Oct., 1904.)

In a case that has been reported to me, somewhat similar ideas played a part.  The subject is a tall, well-developed man, aged 28, delicate in childhood, but now normal in health and physical condition, though not fond of athletics.  His mental ability is much above the average,