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
The border-line between the normal and pathological increase of libido
in women is also somewhat blotted. A considerable piece of sexuality
dwells in the feminine soul of every woman. It is only covered by
inhibitory counter-emotions. But we recognize her true sexuality by
its pathological exaggeration. Never is there uncovered in insane
men such an abundance and monstrosity of the sexual imagery as in
insane women. In dreams and in the dusky twilight of insanity men and
women abandon themselves to their true impulses and desires without
the restraining influences of conventionality. The normal woman has
learned by education to hide her true sexual feelings and was forced
by tradition to produce in a quite extraordinary way the impression
that she herself is nearly non-sexual, and her sexuality is only a
concession to the man. But judging from her sexual emotions in abnormal
states, the intensity of woman’s sexuality is of a higher degree than
that of the man’s, and herein lies woman’s superior morality. Morality
is the arrest of the instincts by the intellect. The intensity of her
desires being greater, her higher chastity is more laudable. In certain
periods, such as pregnancy and lactation, when woman is really more or
less non-sexual, her chastity has no merit. But in the other states of
her life when woman’s desires possess a higher degree of intensity, her
chastity is of a superior kind.
Thus the determination, when the normal increase of woman’s sexual
desire ceases and the abnormal state begins, is wrought with great
difficulty. Sexual inclination is normally increased immediately before
and after the menses. Still it may be laid down as a rule that an
overweening sexual desire in a woman, considering her natural modesty
and coyness, should arouse suspicion of its pathological significance.
The nymphomaniac woman seeks to attract men by indecent language, by
lascivious conduct, by personal adornment, perfumes, talk of marriage,
by the exhibition of her feet, legs, neck, breasts and other parts
of her body, and, at the height of her excitement by invitation ad
congressum, aperto stupro manu, nudatione muliebrium et motionibus
initus pelve. She is often seen in the physician’s office and desires
gynaecological examinations for the gratification of her excitement.
Such a case was recently observed by the author.
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