The Book of Idolatry  

"While Sacher-Masoch was immortalized when a term derived from his name was added to the lexicon of sexual aberrations, Schulz also gained a certain notoriety because of his addiction to masochism. This abnormality is especially conspicuous in his sketches, notably in his Book of Idolatry, a small edition of which was distributed to a few connoisseurs. In his writings, it is quite perceptible in his depiction of the housemaid Adela and her admirers as well as in his tongue-in-cheek reference to Magda Wang, a specialist in the "dressage" of men and in breaking their characters.24 Schulz's was a clinically classical type of masochism, connected, as it so often is, with foot fetishism. As Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz has put it, for Schulz, the female instrument of oppression over males is the leg.... With their legs Schulz's females stamp on, torture, and drive to desperate, helpless fury his dwarfish, humiliated and sex-tormented malefreaks, who find in their own degradation the highest form of agonized bliss."--Canadian Slavonic Papers 1986