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It has not been found necessary to modify the main doctrines set forth ten years ago.

In the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which are commonly called, not altogether happily, "sadism" and "masochism."

Among mammals the male wins the female very largely by the display of force.

This definition of sadism as found in De Sade's works is thus, more especially by its final clause, a very much wider conception than the usual definition.

For these reasons the connection between love and pain may be more clearly brought out in connection with whipping than with blood.

The imagined pleasure of being strangled by a lover brings us to a group of feelings which would seem to be not unconnected with respiratory elements.

In this connection reference may be made to the frequency with which dreams of struggling horses occur in connection with disturbance or disease of the heart.

Even when the emotion aroused is disgust it may still act as a sexual stimulant.

The question of love and pain is mainly a question of emotional dynamics.

A special and detailed study of the normal characters of the sexual impulse in men seems unnecessary.

We may trace the same influence subtly lurking even in the most would-be scientific statements of anthropologists and physicians today.

The seeming reluctance of the female is not intended to inhibit sexual activity either in the male or in herself, but to increase it in both.

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The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.

The genius of the place defend me!"—Ben Jonson's Masqu

The history of the delusion appears, in a manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared amongst the Arabians.

This alchymist has left a more distinguished reputation.

An undue opinion of our own importance in the scale of creation is at the bottom of all our unwarrantable notions in this respect.

Paracelsus boasted of being able to transplant diseases from the human frame into the earth, by means of the magnet.