(Moll,
_Kontraere Sexualempfindung_ third edition, p. 568.)
In the preceding case there were no masochistic ideas; it is
likely that in such a case beating is desired largely on account
of that purely physical effect to which attention has already
been called. In the same way self-beating with a switch or whip
has sometimes been spontaneously discovered as a method of
self-excitement preliminary to masturbation. I am acquainted with
a lady of much intellectual ability, sexually normal, who made
this discovery at the age of 18, and practised it for a time.
Professor Reverdin, also, speaks of the case of a young girl
under his care who, after having exhausted all the resources of
her intelligence, finally discovered that the climax of enjoyment
was best reached by violently whipping her own buttocks and
thighs. She had invented for this purpose a whip composed of
twelve cords each of which terminated in a large chestnut-burr
provided with its spines. (A. Reverdin, _Revue Medicale de la
Suisse Romande_, January 20, 1888, p. 17.)
FOOTNOTES:
[107] The discipline or scourge was classed with fasting as a method of
mastering the flesh and of penance.
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