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
Another patient, observed by the author, forty-two years of age,
married, father of two children, modest and respectable, was arrested
one evening for exhibiting virilia sua before girls passing the
streets. He used to hang around girls’ schools, following the girls
after they used to leave school and attracting their attention ad
virilia exposita. At one occasion he ran about in a public park at
dusk virilibus expositis. Once when he saw a young woman standing at
the window of the opposite house, he immediately exposuit virilia et
cœpit se stuprare, standing before his own window so that the young
lady was forced to notice him.
The anomaly of exhibition is found almost exclusively in men. It is
exceedingly rare in women. The girl’s education at home and in school
has developed in the woman the sentiment of modesty and chastity in a
degree out of all proportion with the same sentiment in men. The woman
must be entirely insane before she will expose herself for the sake of
lubricity.
For this reason the few cases of genital exhibitionism in women, thus
far recorded, were all cases of general paralysis. They are found in
asylums for the insane where the patient, during a maniacal excitement,
tollens interulam medico præterienti concubitum proponit. Still in
some women the hyperexcitation of the sexual desire may be of such an
intensity that it will lead to exhibitionism in an otherwise normal
individual, as the following case of Ungewitter shows:
The patient, a servant, twenty years of age, quæ præter amatum suum
concumbebat filio matronæ sedecim annos nato sæpissime exponebat
muliebria in the presence of boys, eight to ten years of age. In the
barn or on porches or even in the open field, tollebat vestes et nudam
vulvam pueris monstrabat convertens animos dicendo; “Contemplamini
hunc locum! Ea est vulva mea. Jam crines ibi habeo; venite et tangite
eam!” She never touched the boys nor did she have any carnal relations
with them.
The defendant servant was found guilty of attempted offence against
morality and was sentenced to two months’ penitentiary.
_Homosexuality._—The world is governed by certain fixed laws. This must
be admitted even by the mechanistic theory of life. In sexual matters
the law of sexual-homologous development is almost as binding as the
law of gravitation. The cerebral centre of voluptas corresponds with
the sexual glands in the inverse sense. The normal inclination of the
individual is directed toward the bearer of the glands of the opposite
sex. The male is attracted by the female and vice versa.
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