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.