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
Dr. M. W., dressed in the masculine garb which she usually wears.]
The case of the celebrated Dr. M. W. shows that even the female
transvestite is greatly concerned in the question of dress.
She is always dressed in the masculine garb. She attributes great
importance to the liberty of dress. She is constantly agitating for
this liberty. In a letter to a male transvestite, written in Chicago,
dated Jan. 12th, 1913, she says: “I have sent the bill to Albany,
N. Y., and to Springfield, Ill., and expect to speak in both places
on the right of clothes.” Then she continues: “The constitution of
the U. S. gives right to life and liberty, and it makes no exception
regarding ‘legs’ and ‘sex.’ It guarantees a republican form of
government to every State, and it is not republican when the State
puts the people in dress-chains.”
_Zoöerastia._—One of the most peculiar and monstrous anomalies of the
sexual impulse after homosexuality is zoöerastia or bestiality, where
the individual se conjungit cum animalibus. The anomaly is as old as
history. It was known already at Biblical times. The Mosaic lawgiver
punishes the practice with death.[BI]
As a rule, bestiality is more due to a certain perversity than to a
perversion. The fact that the zoöerasts are usually found among those
who lack the opportunity for normal congressus (e. g., shepherds,
segregated in the mountains for several months at a time) would tend
to show that the practice is more a vice than a disease. Still a good
many cases of bestiality show a diseased mentality. Even in the case
of Gerstlaner (Arch. f. krim. Anthr. u. Krimin., xxxvi, p. 154), which
looks more like a vice than a disease, the patient does not seem to be
mentally sound.
A man was loitering about in the park of a certain town, where
a savage big dog was often seen at large. By some means or
other he managed to entice the dog to come near him. Quibusdam
contrectationibus ei contigit ut voluptatem animalis concitaret. Tum
nates nudavit, se flexit super scamnum, et canem adduxit ut coitum per
anum perageret. During the act two policemen appeared on the scene who
had great difficulty separare canem ab homine.
Such a case would look more like a vice than a disease. Still a man who
can find sexual satisfaction in playing the rôle of the pathicus in any
coitus per anum is sexually abnormal. The zoöerastic practices in the
case of Sury (Archiv f. krim. Anthrop. u. Kriminalistik, xxxv, p. 314)
are also due to a certain anomaly.
A man forty-seven years of age, twelve years married, was from the
first day he married insatiable in his hunger for sexual activity.
Præter maritam suam servis prædii sui concumbebat. Eodem tempore cum
canibus ovibusque conjungebat et cotidie comprimebat porcam.
This man was apparently suffering from satyriasis with inclination to
animals. The following two cases which came to the notice of the author
also show at the first glance a certain anomaly:
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