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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Hammond reports another case where coitus maritalis could be performed
only by the help of a certain costume; and Dr. Moll mentions several
similar cases in individuals of hetero- and homo-sexuality. The cause
may often be shown to be an early association, and such may always be
assumed. It is only in this way that one can explain why a certain
costume cannot be resisted by such individuals, no matter what person
wears the fetich. Thus one can understand why, as Coffignon (_op.
cit._) relates, men at brothels demand that the women with whom they
are concerned put on certain costumes, such as that of a
ballet-dancer, or nun, etc.; and why these houses are furnished with a
complete wardrobe for such purposes.
Binet (_op. cit._) relates the case of a judge who was exclusively in
love with Italian girls who came to Paris as artists’ models, and
their peculiar costume. The cause was here demonstrably an impression
made at the time of the awakening of the sexual instinct.
A third form of dress-fetichism, having a much higher degree of
pathological significance, is by far the most frequent. In this form it
is no longer the woman herself, dressed, or even dressed in a particular
fashion, that constitutes the principal sexual stimulus, but the sexual
interest is so concentrated on some certain article of female attire
that the lustful idea of this object is entirely separated from the idea
of woman, and thus obtains an independent value. This is the real domain
of dress-fetichism, where an inanimate object—an isolated article of
wearing-apparel—is alone used for the excitation and satisfaction of the
sexual instinct. This third form of dress-fetichism is also the one that
is important forensically.
In a large number of these cases the fetiches are articles of female
underwear, which, owing to their private use, are suited to occasion
such associations.
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