e to imagine a woman
friend doing this to her. She never desired to be whipped by a
man, though there was no trace of inversion, and she never
masturbated until the age of 24, when a marriage engagement was
broken off. At the age of 10 this longing passed away before it
was ever actually realized. (Krafft-Ebing, _Psychopathia
Sexualis_, eighth edition, p. 136.)

In the case of another young woman described by
Krafft-Ebing--where there was neurasthenia with other minor
morbid conditions in the family, but the girl herself appears to
have been sound--the desire to be whipped existed from a very
early age. She traced it to the fact that when she was 5 years
old a friend of her father's playfully placed her across his
knees and pretended to whip her. Since then she has always longed
to be caned, but to her great regret the wish has never been
realized. She longs to be the slave of a man whom she loves:
"Lying in fancy before him, he puts one foot on my neck while I
kiss the other. I revel in the idea of being whipped by him and
imagine different scenes in which he beats me. I take the blows
as so many tokens of love; he is at first extremely kind and
tender, but then in the excess of his love he beats me. I fancy
that to beat me for love's sake gives him the highest pleasure."
Sometimes she imagines that she is his slave, but not his female
slave, for every woman may be her husband's slave. She is of
proud and independent nature in all other matters, and to imagine
herself a man who consents to be a slave gives her a more
satisfying sense of humiliation. She does not understand that
these manifestations are of a sexual nature. (Krafft-Ebing,
_Psychopathia Sexualis_, English translation of tenth edition, p.
189.)

Sometimes a woman desires to take the active part in whipping.
Thus Marandon de Montyel records the case of a girl of 19,
hereditarily neuropathic (her father was alcoholic), but very
intelligent and good-hearted, who had never been whipped or seen
anyone whipped. At this age, however, she happened to visit a
married friend who was just about to punish her boy of 9 by
whipping him with a wet towel. The girl spectator was much
interested, and though the boy screamed and struggled she
experienced a new sensation she could not define. "At every
stroke," she sai