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
At puberty a certain change took place in the psyche of the patient.
At this time, when about twelve years of age, he began to think how
nice it would be if he could be changed into a girl. He never had
any sexual desires for women. In stuprando manu he donned female
attire, but his fancies had always women as the objects. When the
patient is dressed like a man, no one would take him for a woman.
There are no strongly pronounced feminine traits. The sex-organs are
those of a normal man. The distribution of the hair on the body is
almost the same as in any other man. The head is rather bald. On
the arms there is no hair, but the hands are covered with hair. The
hands are rather small, narrow, soft, well-shaped and artistic. The
fingers are tapering. The legs and feet, when in dainty stockings,
are rather feminine. The patient wears woman’s shoes. Otherwise when
he is dressed like a man he looks like a normal man. But when the
patient is in stockinet as in his photograph, “Psyche in Bath,” no
one would take him for a man. When dressed like a woman, nobody would
recognize a man in him. He has taken walks on streets unnoticed while
so dressed. He never drew any attention, so perfectly does he look
like a woman.
The patient’s behavior is quiet but not effeminate. His voice is low,
of uncertain timbre. He tries to cultivate a female voice without
resorting to falsetto. His writing is uneven, sometimes bold; mostly,
however, it is a woman’s small handwriting. The gait is like that of
a woman, swaying in the hips. The patient suffers from periodical
hemorrhages of the nose, which he is inclined to consider as a kind of
vicarious menstruation.
As far as the emotions are concerned there is a marked feminine
sensibility. Tears come easily when watching emotional scenes. He
smiles almost constantly when in conversation, but he rarely laughs
outright. He is very sensitive to pain, but stoic enough not to
complain. He blushes on the slightest pretext. He is possessed
of feminine adaptability. He likes needlework and loves to do
crochetting. He likes female amusements, such as “Kaffeeklatsch.” He
is a freethinker in his creed.
The patient possesses normal love and admiration for the other sex. He
is attracted by women, although his sexual feelings are very little
pronounced. He takes the greatest pleasure in contemplating pictures
of the female form. His day-dreams and fancies are only of women.
He has no homosexual inclinations, but rather a profound repugnance
against homosexual relationship. He never longed for a male instead
of a female lover. Still he seems to want a man before whom he could
expose the charms of his own person and who would kiss and caress him.
His sexual desires are not developed. He never was in love with any
women or men. His wife proposed to him. He may have remained otherwise
single. He has three children, all perfectly healthy.
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