Sex and Sadism

Abstract

Once the moral barriers were let down, a spirit of reckless abandon took possession of the younger generation. Acts of violence increased ominously, sespecially in the large cities. It the Profumo affair created a national scandal by its revelation of sexual immorality in high places, the Moors Case called forth a reaction of horror at its disclosure of the psychopathology of the Sexual life,the underground connection between sadism and sexuality. Here was mostous evidence that the nihilistic infectionof evil was a reality. Ian Brady, a store clerk, and Esther Myra Hindley, twenty-three years old, has prepetrated a series of ghastly child murders between 1963 and 1965, but felt no remorse about their past deed. They must have spent many hours talking “about the books, over fifty volumes of sado-masochism, titillative pornography torture and Nazism, which last Brady amd Hindley so much admired.”².What was of compelling interest to the prosecution was the fact that the Brady and JHindley emulated the example of their patron saint, the Marquis de Sade.

In a well-regulated society— or perhaps in some Utopia of the future—men and women will spend their twenties in pleasant and casual relationships, spending much time together, sometimes making love, each learning to penetrate the secret of the opposite sex, to understand its essential nature. When they meet the person who can most deeply fulfill their needs, they will marry, and the marriage will have a solid foundation.¹