aised her dress, and vigorously smacked her with the
flat hand. I looked on fascinated, and possessed by an
inexplicable feeling to which I naively gave myself up. The
impression was so deep that the scene and the persons concerned
are still clearly present to my mind, and I can even recall the
little details of my companion's underclothing." When sexual
associations are permanently brought into play through such an
early incident it is possible that a special predisposition
exists. (_Gesellschaft und Geschlecht_, Bd. ii, ht. 4, p. 120.)

It would certainly seem that we must look upon this association as coming
well within the normal range of emotional life in childhood, although
after puberty, when the sexual feelings become clearly defined, the
attraction of whipping normally tends to be left behind as a piece of
childishness, only surviving in the background of consciousness, if at
all, to furnish a vaguely sexual emotional tone to the subject of
whipping, but not affecting conduct, sometimes only emerging in erotic
dreams.

This, however, is not invariably the case in persons who are organically
abnormal. In such cases, and especially, it would seem, in highly
sensitive and emotional children, the impress left by the fact or the
image of whipping may be so strong that it affects not only definitely,
but permanently, the whole subsequent course of development of the sexual
impulse. Regis has recorded a case which well illustrates the
circumstances and hereditary conditions under which the idea of whipping
may take such firm root in the sexual emotional nature of a child as to
persist into adult life; at the same time the case shows how a sexual
perversion may, in an intelligent person, take on an intellectual
character, and it also indicates a rational method of treatment.

Jules P., aged 22, of good heredity on father's side, but bad on
that of mother, who is highly hysterical, while his grandmother
was very impulsive and sometimes pursued other women with a
knife. He has one brother and one sister, who are somewhat morbid
and original. He is himself healthy, intelligent, good looking,
and agreeable, though with slightly morbid peculiarities. At the
age of 4 or 5 he suddenly opened a door and saw his sister, then
a girl of 14 or 15, kneeling, with her clothes raised and her
head on her governess's lap, at the moment of being whipped for
some