man is very exciting, and doubly so if one realizes that the man enjoys it.  Ouida speaks of the ‘delicious shame’ experienced by ‘Folle Farine.’

“It seems to me that whenever we are affected by another’s emotion we do practically, though unconsciously, put ourselves in his place; but we are not always able to gauge accurately its intensity or to allow for differences between ourselves and another, and, in the case of pain, it is doubly difficult, as we can never recall the pain itself, but only the mental effects upon us of the pain.  We cannot even recall the feeling of heat when we are cold, or vice versa, with any degree of vividness.

“A woman tells me of a man who frequently asks her if she would not like him to whip her.  He is greatly disappointed when she says she gets no pleasure from it, as it would give him so much to do it.  He cannot believe she experiences none, because he would enjoy being whipped so keenly if he were a girl.  In another case the man thinks the woman must enjoy suffering, because he would get intense pleasure from inflicting it!  Why is this, unless he would like it if a woman, and confuses in his mind the two personalities?  All the men I know who are sadistically inclined admit that if they were women they would like to be harshly treated.

“Of course, I quite see there may be many complications; a man’s natural anger at resistance may come in, and also simple, not sexual, pleasure in acts of crushing, etc.  I always feel inclined to crush anything very soft or a person with very pretty thick hair, to rub together two shining surfaces, two bits of satin, etc., apart from any feelings of excitement.  My explanation only refers to that part of sadism which is sexual enjoyment of another’s pain.”

That the foregoing view holds good as regards the traces of sadism found within the normal limits of sexual emotion has already been stated.  We may also believe that it is true in many genuinely perverse cases.  In this connection reference may be made to an interesting case, reported by Moll, of a married lady 23 years of age, with pronounced sadistic feelings.  She belongs to a normal family and is herself apparently quite healthy, a tall and strongly built person, of feminine aspect, fond of music and dancing, of more than average intelligence.  Her perverse inclinations commenced obscurely about the age of 14, when she began to be dominated by the thought of the pleasure it would be to strike and torture a man, but were not clearly defined until the age of 18, while at an early age she was fond of teasing and contradicting men, though she never experienced the same impulse toward women.  She has never, except in a very slight degree, actually carried her ideas into practice, either with her husband or anyone else, being restrained, she says, by a feeling of shame.  Coitus, though frequently practised,