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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The contrary sexual instinct of this patient, which was clearly
acquired, expressed itself in a stormy and decidedly sensual way, and
was further augmented by masturbation; because constant oversight in
hospitals made sexual satisfaction with the same sex impossible.
Character and occupation remained feminine. There were no manifestations
of viraginity. According to information lately received by the author,
this patient, after two years of treatment in an asylum, was entirely
freed from her neurosis and sexual perversion, and discharged cured.
Case 96. X., aged 19; mother nervous; two sisters of mother’s father
were insane. Patient of nervous temperament; well endowed mentally;
well developed; normally formed. When he was twelve years old, he was
seduced into mutual onanism by an elder brother.
After this, the patient continued the vice alone. In the last three
years, during the act of masturbation, he had had peculiar fancies in
the sense of “contrary sexual instinct.”
He fancies himself a female; as, for example, a ballet-dancer in the
act of coitus with an officer or circus rider. These perverse fancies
have accompanied the act of masturbation since the patient became
neurasthenic. He understands the harm of masturbation, fights
desperately against it, but always gives up to the impulse.
If he is able to withstand the impulse for a few days, a normal desire
for sexual intercourse with females is awakened; but a certain fear of
infection holds these desires in check, and always drives him again to
masturbation.
It is worthy of remark that this unfortunate’s lascivious dreams
concerned only females.
In the course of the last few months, the patient had become very
neurasthenic and hypochondriacal. He feared tabes.
I advised treatment of the neurasthenia, suppression of masturbation,
and marital cohabitation, if possible, after improvement of the
neurasthenia.
Case 97. Mr. X, aged 35, single, official; mother insane, brother
hypochondriacal.
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