gives her no pleasure, seems, indeed, somewhat disgusting to her, and has never produced orgasm.  Her own ideas, also, though very pleasurable to her, have not produced definite sexual excitement, except on two or three occasions, when they had been combined with the influence of alcohol.  She frankly regrets that modern social relationship makes it impossible for her to find sexual satisfaction in the only way in which such satisfaction would be possible to her.

Her chief delight would be to torture the man she was attached to in every possible way; to inflict physical pain and mental pain would give her equal pleasure.  “I would bite him till the blood came, as I have often done to my husband.  At that moment all sympathy for him would disappear.”  She frequently identifies her imaginary lover with a real man to whom she feels that she could be much more attracted than she is to her husband.  She imagines to herself that she makes appointments with this lover, and that she reaches the rendezvous in her carriage, but only after her lover has been waiting for her a very long time in the cold.  Then he must feel all her power, he must be her slave with no will of his own, and she would torture him with various implements as seemed good to her.  She would use a rod, a riding-whip, bind him and chain him, and so on.  But it is to be noted that she declares “this could, in general, only give me enjoyment if the man concerned endured such torture with a certain pleasure.  He must, indeed, writhe with pain, but at the same time be in a state of sexual ecstasy, followed by satisfaction.”  His pleasure must not, however, be so great that it overwhelms his pain; if it did, her own pleasure would vanish, and she has found witty her husband that when in kissing him her bites have given him much pleasure she has at once refrained.

It is further noteworthy that only the pain she herself had inflicted would give her pleasure.  If the lover suffered pain from an accident or a wound she is convinced that she would be full of sympathy for him.  Outside her special sexual perversion she is sympathetic and very generous. (Moll, Kontraere Sexualempfindung, 1899, pp. 507-510.)

This case is interesting as an uncomplicated example of almost purely ideal sadism.  It is interesting to note the feelings of the sadist subject toward her imaginary lover’s feelings.  It is probably significant that, while his pleasure is regarded as essential, his pain is regarded as even more essential, and the resulting apparent confusion may well be of the very essence of the whole phenomenon.  The pleasure of the imaginary lover must be secured or the manifestation passes out of the sexual sphere; but his pleasure must, at all costs, be conciliated with his pain, for in the sadist’s eyes the victim’s pain has become a vicarious form of sexual emotion.  That, at the same time, the sadist desires to