d, "a strange shiver went through all my body
from my brain to my heels." She would like to have whipped him
herself and felt sorry when it was over. She could not forget the
scene and would dream of herself whipping a boy. At last the
desire became irresistible and she persuaded a boy of 12, whom
she was very fond of, and who was much attached to her, to let
her whip him on the naked nates. She did this so ferociously that
he at last fainted. She was overcome by grief and remorse.
(Marandon de Montyel, _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_,
Jan., 1906, p. 30.)

Although masochism in a pronounced degree may be said to be rare
in women, the love of active flagellation, and sadistic impulses
generally are not uncommon among them. Bloch believes they are
especially common among English women. Cases occur from time to
time of extreme harshness, cruelty, degrading punishment, and
semi-starvation inflicted upon children. The accused are most
usually women, and when a man and woman in conjunction are
accused it appears generally to have been the woman who played
the more active part. But it is rarely demonstrated in these
cases that the cruelty exercised had a definite sexual origin.
There is nothing, for instance, to indicate true sadism in the
famous English case in the eighteenth century of Mrs. Brownrigg
(Bloch, _Geschlechtsleben in England_, vol. ii, p. 425). It may
well be, however, in many of these cases that the real motive is
sexual, although latent and unconscious. The normal sexual
impulse in women is often obscured and disguised, and it would
not be surprising if the perverse instinct is so likewise.

It is noteworthy that a passion for whipping may be aroused by
contact with a person who desires to be whipped. This is
illustrated by the following case which has been communicated to
me: "K. is a Jew, about 40 years of age, apparently normal.
Nothing is known of his antecedents. He is a manufacturer with
several shops. S., an Englishwoman, aged 25, entered his service;
she is illegitimate, believed to have been reared in a brothel
kept by her mother, is prepossessing in appearance. On entering
K.'s service S. was continually negligent and careless. This so
provoked K. that on one occasion he struck her. She showed great
pleasure and confessed that her blunder had been