Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
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Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
It signifies partial or total absence of sexual feeling, i. e.,
impotence of voluptas. It also comprises all other kinds of impotency,
as impotence of libido or of copulation.
III. HYPERAESTHESIA.
It signifies the abnormal intensity of the sexual desire and impulse,
1) Mixoscopy, 2) Erotomania, 3) Satyriasis, 4) Nymphomania, 5)
Masturbation, 6) Incest.
IV. PARAESTHESIA.
It covers all possible forms of perversion of sexual feeling and sexual
activity. A) Heterosexuality: Inclination to persons of the opposite
sex, but with perverse activity. 1) Masochism, 2) Sadism, 3) Fetichism,
4) Exhibitionism. B) Homosexuality: The sexual feeling is directed
toward the same sex. a) Perversity, 1) out of lust, 2) as a profession,
3) through necessity, 4) out of fear, b) Perversion, 1) psychical
hermaphrodism, 2) strict homosexuality, 3) effemination or viraginity,
4) transvestism. C) Bestiality: The sexual feelings are directed in
conjugium cum animalibus.
_Paradoxia._—Paradoxia signifies the sexual activity in individuals who
should normally present no sexual manifestations. The occurrence of
sexual excitement at an age when the individual should ordinarily be
without it belongs to this part of the pathology of sexuality.
The continuance of the same degree of sexual desire in very old men or
in women after the climacterium, as it existed before, is certainly
unusual; yet it cannot be called pathological. The occurrence of
pregnancies in wives of very old men and in women after the climacteric
period proves that the ovaries continue to secrete ova even after
menstruation has ceased, and that the testicles do not cease producing
spermatozoa even beyond the limit of three scores and ten. Now, the
sexual desire depends more upon the activity of the sexual glands
than upon the physiological changes in the nervous apparatus of the
generative organs in men or upon any changes in the uterus, which is
only a repository for the development of the foetus. Hence the absence
of erection in men or of menstruation in women does not necessarily
imply absence of sexual desire.
The appearance of sexual desire in boys before puberty and in girls
long before menstruation has set in is also, as yet, within the limits
of the normal; it becomes pathological only when the sexual desire
is manifested in infants or very small children. Complete sexual
development has been witnessed in children as early as the second year.
The precocity of development in the organs of generation is usually
accompanied by corresponding precocity in sexual desire.
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