• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

    Richard von Krafft-Ebing: The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.
    Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann