Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct: A medico-legal studyKrafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard)
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Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct: A medico-legal study
Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard)
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In psychopathic individuals, sexually hyperæsthetic, as a result of
this, it actually happens that the dressed woman is always preferred to
the nude female form. It may be recalled that in Case 48 the woman was
not to take off a garment, and that in Case 51, _equus eroticus_, the
woman was preferred dressed. In Case 89, of the sixth edition,—that of a
man manifesting contrary sexuality,—the same preference is expressed.
Dr. Moll (_op. cit._) mentions a patient who could not perform coitus
with puella nuda; the woman had to have on a chemise, at least. The same
author (_op. cit._, p. 129) mentions a man affected with contrary
sexuality, who was subject to the same dress-fetichism.
The reason for this phenomenon is apparently to be found in the mental
onanism of such individuals. In seeing innumerable clothed forms, they
have cultivated desires before seeing nudity.[99]
A more marked form of dress-fetichism is that in which, instead of the
dressed woman, a certain kind of attire becomes a fetich. One can
understand how, with an intense and early sexual impression, combined
with the idea of a particular garment on the woman, in hyperæsthetic
individuals, a very intense interest in this garment might be developed.
Hammond (_op. cit._) reports the following case, taken from Roubaud
(“Traité de l’impuissance,” Paris):—
Case 81. X., son of a general. He was raised in the country. At the
age of fourteen he was initiated into the joys of love by a young
lady. This lady was a blonde, and wore her hair in ringlets; and, in
order to avoid detection in sexual intercourse with her young lover,
she always wore her usual clothing,—gaiters, a corset, and a silk
dress.
When his studies were completed, and he was sent to a garrison where
he could enjoy freedom, he found that his sexual desire could be
excited only under certain conditions. A brunette could not excite him
in the least, and a woman in night-clothes could stifle every bit of
love in him. In order to awaken his desire, a woman had to be a
blonde, and wear gaiters, a corset, and a silk dress,—in short, she
had to be dressed like the lady who had first awakened his sexual
desire. He was always compelled to give up thoughts of matrimony,
because he knew he would be unable to fulfill his marital duty with a
woman in night-clothes.
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