“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side of life.” — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“There are some nations, viz., the Persians and Russians, where the women regard blows as a peculiar sign of love and favour.” — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“he mentions that boys being spanked may experience incidental penile sensations (if held face down across the lap of the adult, or simply from… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“It was the same with Elizabeth of Genton. As a result of whipping she actually passed into a state of bacchanalian madness. As a… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul... and you both know, instantly. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes,… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons,… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
