Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct

3. BODILY INJURY, INJURY TO PROPERTY, AND TORTURE OF ANIMALS DEPENDENT

ON SADISM.[135] (Austrian, § 152, 411; German, § 223 [bodily injury]. Austrian, § 85, 468; German, § 303 [injury to property]. Austrian Police Regulations; German Statutes, § 360 [torture of animals].) Aside from lust-murder, described in the foregoing section, as milder expressions of sadistic desires, impulses to stab, flagellate, or defile females, to flagellate boys, to maltreat animals, etc., also occur. The deep degenerative significance of such cases is clearly demonstrated by the series of examples given under “General Pathology.” Such mentally degenerate individuals, should they be unable to control their perverse impulses, could only be objects of care in asylums.