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
These actions plainly show that her interest in the young people was
founded upon the selfish longing to participate in their pleasure at
the lovers’ dalliance, caressing, kissing, etc., which, as an old
castrate, she could not experience any longer. Hers was, therefore,
the kind of bawdry from love of the subject. It was the only way
this voluptuous woman—but impotent of experiencing libido—could yet
partake of any sexual pleasure by identifying herself with the female
lovers of her young nephew. She had no other advantage to gain by her
match-making.
Panderism or bawdry presumes a complete absence of jealousy of any
kind. Patients, suffering from this anomaly, love to assist at erotic
scenes, enacted between females among themselves where the emotion of
jealousy is absent.
The love of sensual people to look at obscene pictures or to read
obscene books is also based upon the impulse of mixoscopy. Sometimes
the intensity of the desire to assist at erotic scenes reaches such a
degree that the patients hire furnished rooms in fornicibus observandi
causa actiones between the inmates and their callers, through holes in
the walls of adjoining rooms, and thus participate in their libido.
To this impulse of mixoscopy may also be attributed the indulgent
behavior of many a husband towards the family friend. If the world
is ignorant of their wives’ relations, and ridicule is avoided, some
husbands not only close their eyes to their wives' doings but even
favor their flirtations. The history of the following case shows how
far a husband can go in his indulgence, as to himself procuring a lover
for his wife:
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