[67] Marro, La Puberta, 1898, p. 223; Garnier, “La Criminalite Juvenile,” Comptes-rendus Congres Internationale d’Anthropologie Criminelle, Amsterdam, 1901, p. 296; Archivio di Psichiatria, 1899, fasc. v-vi, p. 572.

[68] Bk. ii, ch. ii.

[69] Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, 1876, vol. i, p. 651.

[70] Westermarck, Human Marriage, p. 388.  Grosse is of the same opinion; he considers also that the mock-capture is often an imitation, due to admiration, of real capture; he does not believe that the latter has ever been a form of marriage recognized by custom and law, but only “an occasional and punishable act of violence.” (Die Formen der Familie, pp. 105-7.) This position is too extreme.

[71] Ernest Crawley, The Mystic Rose, 1902, p. 350 et seq.  Van Gennep rightly remarks that we cannot correctly say that the woman is abducted from “her sex,” but only from her “sexual society.”

[72] A. Van Gennep (Rites de Passage, 1909, pp. 175-186) has put forward a third theory, though also of a psychological character, according to which the “capture” is a rite indicating the separation of the young girl from the special societies of her childhood.  Gennep regards this rite as one of a vast group of “rites of passage,” which come into action whenever a person changes his social or natural environment.

[73] Fere (L’Instinct Sexuel, p. 133) appears to regard the satisfaction, based on the sentiment of personal power, which may be experienced in the suffering and subjection of a victim as an adequate explanation of the association of pain with love.  This I can scarcely admit.  It is a factor in the emotional attitude, but when it only exists in the sexual sphere it is reasonable to base this attitude largely on the still more fundamental biological attitude of the male toward the female in the process of courtship.  Fere regards this biological element as merely a superficial analogy, on the ground that an act of cruelty may become an equivalent of coitus.  But a sexual perversion is quite commonly constituted by the selection and magnification of a single moment in the normal sexual process.

[74] The process may, however, be quite conscious.  Thus, a correspondent tells me that he not only finds sexual pleasure in cruelty toward the woman he loves, but that he regards this as an essential element.  He is convinced that it gives the woman pleasure, and that it is possible to distinguish by gesture, inflection of voice, etc., an hysterical, assumed, or imagined feeling of pain from real pain.  He would not wish to give real pain, and would regard that as sadism.

[75] De Sade had already made the same remark, while Duchenne, of Boulogne, pointed out that the facial expressions of sexual passion and of cruelty are similar.

[76] Kryptadia, vol. vi, p. 208.

[77] Daumas, Chevaux de Sahara, p. 49.