[616] To this category belongs also the peculiar case reported by Siegfried Türkel (“Sexual Pathological Cases,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1903, vol. xi., pp. 215-218) of a historian who became sexually excited by the view of a woman suffering from sexual deprivation, and of her mental trouble. Another man (ibid., p. 222, 223) obtained sexual excitement and gratification only by watching the anxiety of women—for example, of such as he had himself falsely accused of theft!
[617] Cf. the reference to erotic dictionaries in my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., pp. 104, 105. Recently F. S. Krauss, in his “Anthropophyteia,” has devoted special attention to this peculiar manifestation of the popular soul.
[618] R. Schwaeblé, “Les Détraquées de Paris,” pp. 3-10.
[619] The typical literary advocate of masochism, who in actual life was a passionate worshipper of the whip, was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). Cf. regarding him, his life, his sexual perversions, and his writings, C. F. von Schlichtegroll, “Sacher-Masoch and Masochism” (Dresden, 1901); Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, “Confessions of my Life” (Berlin and Leipzig, 1906); C. F. von Schlichtegroll, “‘Wanda’ without Fur and Mask. An Answer to ‘Wanda’ von Sacher-Masoch’s ‘Confessions of My Life,’ with extracts from Sacher-Masoch’s Diary” (Leipzig, 1906).
[620] A. de Musset, “Confessions of a Child of his Time.”
[621] Ertel, “A ‘Slave,’” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, issued by Hans Gross, vol. xxv., Nos. 1 and 2, p. 107 (Leipzig, 1906). Hamburg appears to be the chief centre of masochistic prostitution. See also the report given by D. Hausen, “The Cane and the Whip,” second edition, pp. 164, 165 (Dresden, 1902).
[622] Regarding the voluptuous sensations connected with hanging, see my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., p. 173, and more especially my “Sexual Life in England,” vol. iii., pp. 94-99 (Berlin, 1903); also Havelock Ellis, “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse.”
[623] Cf. Castor and Pollux, “The Masseuse Improprieties of Berlin” (Berlin, 1900).
[624] This is a favourite masochistic situation. Hans Baldung has immortalized it in a picture, in which Phyllis rides upon Aristotle. I owe to the kindness of my colleague Dr. Kantorowicz, in Hanover, the knowledge that J. von Falke describes an ivory relief representing the same scene. King Alexander looks on, and “rejoices at the scene—how the bearded old man, controlled by the beauty, with the bit in his mouth, is crawling about on all-fours, carrying the lady, armed with a whip.” In Semrau-Lübke’s “Elements of the History of Art,” vol. iii., p. 532 (Stuttgart, 1903), a picture on glass, from the Rahn Collection in Zurich, is described, which represents the same history.
[625] Ertel, op. cit., pp. 105, 106.