Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
[AN] The pride of the female, says Otto Weininger (Sex and Character,
p. 201), is something quite peculiar to herself, something foreign even
to the most handsome man, an obsession of her own body, a pleasure
which displays itself even in the least handsome girl, by admiring
herself in the mirror, by stroking herself and playing with her own
hair, but which comes to its full measure only in the effect that her
body has on man.
[AO] Grudge, ill will, fear, hatred, or envy are often miscalled
jealousy, but are emotions entirely different from the emotion of
sexual jealousy.
Jealousy is especially confused with the emotion of envy. Professional
jealousy, artistic jealousy, etc., for instance, are nothing but envy.
Jealousy has a real or pretended claim, envy has none. Envy needs only
two persons, jealousy three.
When a man, for instance, loves a woman in silence, without her
knowledge or encouragement, i. e., without even a pretended claim
upon her, and another man enters upon the stage, the emotion of the
first man is not that of jealousy but of fear, lest the second man may
succeed where he has not yet. When a man has a successful love affair,
and another man appears as a disturber, the emotion of the second is
that of envy. If the woman transfers her affections on the disturber,
the emotion of the lover is that of jealousy, because he had a claim
upon her.
[AP] This accounts for the observation not seldom made in the cases
of widows that the children of the second husband bear a certain
resemblance with the first dead one.
[AQ] The experiments of Waldstein and Elder show that every congressio,
ending in the male ejaculation within the vagina, causes a certain
saturation of the female blood with a substance, owing its origin
within the male body, and exercises a certain change in the female
blood. These authors have shown by experiments on rabbits (Archiv für
Kriminalanthropologie und Kriminalistik, Vol. 56, p. 364) that the
male sperma within the female organism represents a foreign body in
the sense of Abderhalden. When the sperma has entered the blood of the
female organism it produces there a specific ferment. The blood of a
rabbit, twenty-four hours after copulation, possesses the quality of
dialyzation upon testicular tissue. This reaction is positive after
every copulation, no matter whether fertilization has taken place or
not. Thus a part of the male circulates within the blood of the female,
even after copulation without fertilization.
PART VI.
PATHOLOGY OF SEXUALITY
CHAPTER XV
PARADOXIA
The pathology of love treats only of sensual love or of sensuality. The
anomalies of sentimental love lie more properly within the province of
the metaphysician or sociologist. Hence only the pathologic aspect of
sensuality will be considered in the following part.
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