ABSTRACT
The sexual perversions include sadism and masochism, anal and especially coprophilic sexuality, exhibitionism, voyeurism, transvestitism, oral-genital practices, and all forms of homosexuality. One used to speak of “perversions” as if they were replacing the “normal” sex act completely or, in the case of homosexuality, making it impossible. In any case, the analyst will look at the anal-sadistic regression as a pathological phenomenon, regardless of whether it expresses itself in sexual perversions, in a symptom, or in a person’s character. Assuming the ideal case of a sadistic man and a masochistic woman whose types of sadism or masochism, respectively, correspond to each other such that desire, consent, and satisfaction are mutual, the very nature of the sexual interrelation is one of unrelatedness in an affective sense. Both the sadistic sexual act and its underlying character substratum stand in contrast to love and respect.
