Check out this "early twentieth century pencil drawing" that was found in an old book, and this accompanying caption.





Woman must of necessity adopt and enjoy
a passive, submissive attitute in the sensual
pleasure she delivers from the pain inflicted
on her by her man. She is physiologically
masochistic like, for example,
the female domestic cat which yowls, bites
and scratchs at the male who tears her vagina
with the sting of his penis.
But the she-cat can only derive pleasure thus
and after the expression of the most apalling
pain, she soon returns to the same love game,
which for her is pain itself, and for that very
reason undoubtedly all the sweeter. Thus it
is for all women, who are in general masochistic,
crying easily over the pain that their partner causes
then for his own sadistic plasure, and yet cringing
beneath him seeking that very pain.
F. de Napoli