Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3
Author: first_name: Havelock
last_name: Ellis
Language: English
Year: 1927

Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain

In the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which are commonly called, not altogether happily, "sadism" and "masochism." Here we are brought before the most extreme and perhaps the most widely known group of sexual perversions. I have considered them from the medico-legal standpoint, because that has already been done by other writers whose works are accessible. I have preferred to show how these aberr