Livets Bog, vol. 5
"Human beings G". Sadism
1869. This extended form of masturbation cannot continue to satisfy. It must continuously be developed further and further by new experiments that derail its originator correspondingly more and more. The normal sexual reaction to natural intercourse or ordinary masturbation can thus no longer give the being sufficient sexual satisfaction. The sexual organs can no longer react sufficiently to a normal sexual stimulus. In order to experience sexual release, the being must therefore increase the tension connected with its sexual experience. This increased tension cannot be attained through the ordinary caresses, kisses and smiles that form the basis for natural sexuality; on the contrary, for the derailed being this sympathetic attitude can be out-lived to such an exaggerated extent that it actually has a relaxing effect rather than an animating one. The being therefore cannot possibly, through this means alone, attain the sexual arousal that is needed in order for sexual release to occur. The derailed being must therefore now resort to means that work in exactly the opposite direction. Since the opposite of caresses is brutality, brutality and violence will then increasingly form the basis for this being's sexuality. Indeed, it can ultimately no longer get any sexual release at all without being brutal and violent to its sexual partner during intercourse, which in reality is no intercourse at all but an attempted murder, if not actual murder. The being has become a "sadist". Stranglings and other sadistic manifestations are rife in this part of the zone of sexual transformation. The use of violence and torture, the committing of murder and killing have become the highest pleasure or experience of life. This derailment or debauchery has many ramifications and individual manifestations all according to the particular psyche, environment and abilities of the various derailed people, just as there are also beings that have grown accustomed to being tortured or whipped in order to attain sexual release. Pyromaniacs belong to the milder stages of this derailment. Here too the exaggerated, unnatural thrill forms the basis for the sexual release of the beings in question. But the tension or thrill of seeing a fire, of being a secret arsonist does not continue to suffice. Ultimately animals or people have to perish in the fires they cause. And thus the being now becomes a homicidal arsonist. Sexually insane, it reaches the culmination of torturing and destroying life in the same way as the other sadists who are their culmination do. Deeper into the culmination of abnormality and darkness can no being come. Heaven has become something evil, while hell has become the greatest experience of life. Here the future human being in God's image is passing through a diabolical stage. We will call these terrestrial human beings who are possessed by a diabolical psyche "human beings G".