the image of any man
who had struck her fancy. She has often done so while seated
talking to such a man, even when he is almost a stranger; in
doing it, she says, a tightening of the muscles of the thighs and
the slightest movement are sufficient. Ugly men (if not
deformed), as well as men with the reputation of being _roues_,
greatly excite her sexually, more especially if of good social
position, though this is not essential.

At the age of 18 she became hysterical, probably, she herself
believes, in consequence of a great increase at that time of
indulgence in masturbation. The doctors, apparently suspecting
her habits, urged her parents to get her married early. She
married, at the age of 20, a man about twice her own age.

As a child (and in a less degree still) she was very fond of
watching dog-fights. This spectacle produced strong sexual
feelings and usually orgasm, especially if much blood was shed
during the fight. Clean cuts and wounds greatly attract her,
whether on herself or a man. She has frequently slightly cut or
scratched herself "to see the blood," and likes to suck the
wound, thinking the taste "delicious." This produces strong
sexual feelings and often orgasm, especially if at the time she
thinks of some attractive man and imagines that she is sucking
his blood. The sight of injury to a woman only very slightly
affects her, and that, she thinks, only because of an involuntary
association of ideas. Nor has the sight of suffering in illness
any exciting effects, only that which is due to violence, and
when there is a visible cause for the suffering, such as cuts and
wounds. (Bruises, from the absence of blood, have only a slight
effect.) The excitement is intensified if she imagines that she
has herself inflicted the injury. She likes to imagine that the
man wished to rape her, and that she fought him in order to make
him more greatly value her favor, so wounding him.

Impersonal ideas of torture also excite her. She thinks Fox's
_Book of Martyrs_ "lovely," and the more horrible and bloody the
tortures described the greater is the sexual excitement produced.
The book excites her from the point of view of the torturer, not
that of the victim. She has frequently masturbated while reading
it.

So far as practicable she has sought to carry out these