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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“Until my fifteenth year a woman had never excited me; but one
evening, when I was alone with our servant-girl in a room, I
experienced the same desire that I had for many boys. At first I
played with her; and, when I found that she liked to be kissed, I
covered her with kisses. I felt such sensual pleasure in it as I now
seldom experience. Mouth to mouth, we kissed each other, and after
about ten minutes ejaculation occurred. Thus I gratified myself two or
three times a week. I soon began a similar relation with our cook, and
with other servant-girls. Ejaculation always took place after kissing
for about ten minutes.
“In the meantime, I had taken dancing-lessons. There I was first
charmed by a nice girl; but this love soon disappeared, and I fell in
love with another girl, with whom I never became acquainted, but at
the sight of whom I felt an attraction like that of boys, and unlike
the purely brutal passion I felt for other girls. At this time my
impulse for girls was at its acme; I was pleased by about an equal
number of girls and boys. As mentioned above, I gratified my
sensuality by kissing the servant-girl and inducing ejaculation. Thus
I spent the time from my sixteenth to my eighteenth year. The
departure of the servant deprived me of opportunity.
“Then came two or three years during which I had to give up sexual
pleasure. In general, girls pleased me less; and, too, now that I had
grown older, I was ashamed to surrender myself to the servant-girls.
“It was not possible for me to obtain a mistress; for, notwithstanding
my years, I was carefully watched by my parents, and associated but
little with young men, and thus had but little independence. With the
diminution in the desire for women, the attractiveness of youths
increased.
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