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
One of these cases has been reported by Wise. The woman, fifty-six
years of age, was always peculiar in girlhood. She preferred masculine
sports and labors. She had an aversion to attentions from young
men and sought the society of her own sex. She consented to marry
when twenty years of age, and had one child. When she was deserted
by her husband, she began to follow her predilection for masculine
avocations. She donned male attire and became a trapper and hunter.
She considered herself a man in all that the name applies. After
many reverses she entered an almshouse and here she became attached
to a young woman. When the attachment became mutual, both left the
institution for the woods to commence life instar mariti maritæque.
They lived in this relation until the patient had a maniacal attack
that resulted in her committal to an asylum.
Another case of viraginity has been reported by Kiernan. The patient,
a girl of twenty-two years of age, when a child, liked boys' games and
was fond of male attire. She felt an attachment to some of her female
friends and satisfied voluptatem faciendo stupra mutua cum amicis. The
powerful impulse for sexual gratification came over her at regular
periods. She became intensely excited at the sight muliebrium. In her
lascivious dreams she saw only female pictures. She also suffered from
imperative conceptions.
In Westphal’s case, the patient, thirty-five years of age, was as a
child fond of boys’ games and was anxious to wear male attire. From
her eighth year she felt herself drawn to certain girls. She kissed
and hugged them and sometimes induced them permittere ut muliebria
contrectaret. Between her eighteenth and twenty-fifth year she had
frequent chances contrectandi muliebria. When such chances were
wanting, she satisfied herself stupro manu. Stuprabat sese especially
just before and after menstruation. When she attempted to control
herself she experienced a disagreeable odor and taste, arising from
muliebria sua.
The cases mentioned by Ellis also belong to this degree of female
homosexuality.
Catherine Tucker nupta erat mulieri et eam comprimebat ope fascini
factitii.
In Memphis, Alice Mitchells planned marriage with Freda Ward. When the
scheme was frustrated by Freda’s sister, Alice killed Freda by cutting
her throat.
In Chicago one of the Tiller sisters was an invert and lived stupre
attached to the other. One day the healthy sister was induced to
leave the invert and got married. The deserted sister then broke into
the apartment of the couple and shot the husband.
Another case is that of a trained nurse in Chicago who lived stupre
with a young girl of fourteen years. The latter left her four times,
but was always induced to return again. One day, the girl married,
whereupon the nurse shot the husband.
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