CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XXI
Algolagnia, or painful voluptuousness — Biological roots of algolagnia — Its rôle in the civilized life of mankind — Connexion between pain and voluptuousness — Pain in the vita sexualis — Sadism and masochism — Physiological algonagnistic phenomena — The sexual enjoyment of spiritual pain — Philosophical views on this subject — Weltschmerz and pessimism as sources of pleasure — The joy of grief — Cruelty as intermediator in the production of algolagnia — Theories of cruelty — The enjoyment of power — Nietzsche’s justification of cruelty as a factor in civilization — Sadistic and masochistic phenomena of civilization — Examples from the present day — Increase of sexual desire by means of emotional concussion — Evolutionary theory of algolagnia — Cruelty of woman — Debauchees and prostitutes — “Tropical frenzy” as an especial form of sadism — Various explanations of tropical frenzy — Influence of sexual differences between man and woman — Genesis of the “hen-pecked” state and of “mistress-rule” — Coquetry and flirtation — Frequent association with sadism and masochism — Flagellation as the principal form of algolagnia — Imitation of physiological algolagnia — Exciting influence of massage and friction — Various factors of the sexual influence of passive flagellation — Active flagellation — Chance occurrences leading to the development of flagellomania — Sexual influence of whipping upon children — Examples — “Schoolmaster’s flagellantism” (Dippoldism) — Examples — Flagellation and prostitution — Flagellation brothels — Inclination of woman to flagellation — A Parisian “school” — “Corset discipline” — Sadistic bodily injuries and lust-murder — Characteristics of lust-murder — “Girl stabbers” — Other forms of sadistic bodily injury — Sexual vampirism — Offences against property committed from sadistic motives — Vitriol throwing — Sadistic arson — Sexual kleptomania — Symbolic forms of sadism — Verbal sadism — Erotic dictionaries — Verbal exhibitionism — Example — Other varieties of symbolical algolagnia — Satanism — Wide diffusion of passive algolagnia, of masochism — Passive algolagnia — Examples — Masochistic instrumentarium — A masochistic “torture-chamber” — Masochistic prostitution — Letter of a masochist — A “slave” — Characterization of male masochists — A very typical case of masochism — Masochism in women — Letter of a female masochist.
Appendix: A contribution to the psychology of the Russian revolution (History of the development of an algolagnistic revolutionist).