intentions are more likely to attract the attention of young people to
erotic subjects.

=Corporal Punishment and Sadism.=--An important fact has recently
attracted the attention of the whole world, concerning certain
terrible crimes. There is no longer any doubt that in some cases
perverted masters and teachers find satisfaction for their sadist
sexual appetite in the corporal punishment of children. This was the
case with the German teacher, Dippold, who, to satisfy his perverted
appetite flogged two children confided to him by their parents, till
one of them died.

The _Arbeiter Zeitung_, of Vienna, a very conscientious journal,
published the case of a prince of a small German state, who, whenever
a schoolmaster ordered corporal punishment to a pupil, offered to
execute it himself. The journal in question attributes with good
reason this fantasy to sadism.

Again, many children were at one time belabored with blows for several
years by a person who pretended to be a police agent, and who
threatened them with prosecution if they complained. One boy more
courageous than the others finally gave information, and the affair
then ended.

We thus see that sadism does not always manifest itself by
assassination. Its less dangerous forms in which pleasure is obtained
by blows or some other form of bodily or mental ill-treatment, are no
doubt much more common. They constitute a kind of complement to sexual
desire in pathological individuals whose appetite is only partly
perverted. This fact, which has hitherto not received sufficient
attention, gives one more reason for the abolition of corporal
punishment in schools, for the art of dissimulation and refinement of
torture are unlimited in the sexually perverted. A thousand
hypocritical pretexts serve to conceal their morbid appetite, and it
has been proved by experience that they can succeed for a long time in
deceiving even experts in this subject. This was the case with Dippold
and many others.

Corporal punishment of schoolboys is only useless and harmful
brutality. It is a disgrace to civilization that it is still
maintained at a time when the bastinado has been suppressed among
convicts.

=Protection of Childhood. Child Martyrs.=--Children, especially when
illegitimate or of another marriage, are often exposed to atrocious
treatment in which alcohol and sexual passion, inconvenienced by the
presence of the child, play a great part.

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