Psychopathia Sexualis Quotes

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“All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
“Thus masochism and sadism appear as the fundamental forms of psychosexual perversion, which may make their appearance at any point in the domain of sexual aberration.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“He loved to eat rats and cats.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“She said she had always been indifferent towards men. In fact, she avoided balls.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“Masturbation should be carefully watched in both sexes.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“He preferred a hard, rough hand.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“The chief reason why inverted sexuality in woman is still covered with the veil of mystery is that the homosexual act so far as woman is concerned, does not fall under the law.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“The condition of the anus indicated passive pederasty.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“CASE 146. Once summer's evening, at twilight, X.Y., a doctor of medicine in a North German city, was trodden on by a watchman as he (the doctor) was committing an immoral act with a tramp on a path in a field. He was practicing masturbation on him and thereupon putting the tramp's penis into his mouth.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“Dancing with a woman is unpleasant to a homosexual, but to dance with a man, especially one with an attractive form, is to him the greatest of pleasures.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“In homosexuals morally perverse and potent, in regard to erections, the sexual desire is satisfied by pederasty—an act, however, which is repugnant to perverted individuals that are not defective morally, much in the same way as it is to normal men.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“The majority of homosexuals are happy in their perverse sexual feeling and impulse, and unhappy only in so far as social and legal barriers stand in the way of the satisfaction of their instinct towards their own sex.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“When looking out of a window, he became dizzy and anxious. He was a perverse, peculiar, and easily embarrassed man, of bad mental constitution.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“CASE 116. L., aged thirty-seven, clerk, from tainted family, had his first erection at five years, when he saw his bed-fellow—an aged relative—put on his night-cap.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“The result of this marriage was, after five years, two children, and a collection of seventy-two wigs.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“Almost every masturbator at last reaches a point where, frightened on learning the results of the vice, or on experiencing them (neurasthenia), or led by example or seduction to the opposite sex, he wishes to free himself of the vice and re-instate his sexual life.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“There are some nations, viz., the Persians and Russians, where the women regard blows as a peculiar sign of love and favour.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
“It was the same with Elizabeth of Genton. As a result of whipping she actually passed into a state of bacchanalian madness. As a rule, she raved when, excited by unusual flagellation, she believed herself united with her “ideal.â€� This condition was so exquisitely pleasant to her that she would frequently cry out, “O love, O eternal love, O love, O you creatures! cry out with me: ‘Love, Love!”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
“Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes, and ascribes to it peculiar wonder-working (relics) or protective (amulets) virtues.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side of life.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
“he mentions that boys being spanked may experience incidental penile sensations (if held face down across the lap of the adult, or simply from friction against their own trousers), and consequently come to associate erotic pleasure with spanking, leading to a spanking fetish, and perhaps in some cases to sadism or masochism.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex
― Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex