algolagnic

My erotic dreams, which years ago were (to the best of my remembrance) frequently algolagnic, are now almost invariably normal.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

No doubt they were the same kind of dreamings as are present in multitudes of imaginative children; they are only of interest in so far as a sexual element was present; and that was algolagnic in character.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

If scientific light on these matters were generally available in the practical bringing up of children, persons in charge of young children might refrain from exciting an algolagnic tendency or doing anything calculated to awake sexual emotions prematurely.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

My sexual nature, though normal, has been keenly alive and sensitive as far back as I can remember; and as I look back I discern within myself in early childhood what I now understand to be a decided masochistic or passively algolagnic tendency.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

It soon, however, became associated in my mind with algolagnic excitement, giving rise to reveries which took the ordinary form of imagining oneself stripped and whipped, etc., by persons of the opposite sex.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

Leaving out of account the precocious movements of the sexual instinct to which I have already referred as colored by psychic algolagnia, I may say that somewhat later, from the age of puberty and onward, I had three or four love affairs, devoid of any algolagnic tendency, and considerably more developed on the psychic and emotional, than on the physical, side.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

When we glance over the history of flagellation and realize that, though whipping as a punishment has been very widespread and common, there have been periods and lands showing no clear knowledge of any sexual association of whipping, it becomes clear that whipping is not necessarily an algolagnic manifestation.

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If I were to allow myself indulgence in algolagnic reveries they would even now excite me without difficulty; but I have systematically discouraged them, so that they give me little or no practical trouble.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

In my own case, I recollect acts performed by older persons in ignorance and thoughtlessness which undoubtedly tended to foster and strengthen my algolagnic instinct.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

_dramatis personæ_ in my own algolagnic reveries were elderly women; somewhat strangely, I did not associate physical sexuality at this period with young and attractive women.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899