by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
“Many people seem to think that sexual fetishes are a recent development--as if perversions only started appearing when Kinsey mounted (heh heh) his first study. Kraft-Ebbing was charting the sexual foibles and oddities of his fellow Germans in 1886, compiling and analyzing them in his magnum opus, Psychopathia Sexualis. An influential work among early psychiatrists and psychologists, Psychpathia Sexualis developed a fan following among thrillseekers for its well-written accounts of foot and shoe fetishists, zoophiles, transvestites, necrophiles, and others with fairly unclassfiable tastes. Looks like someone cut out all the science and provide the stories in this new edition. If you can, I recommend picking up the Grove Press edition.”
