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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“During this time a physician, a friend of my father’s, seduced me by
caressing me and practicing masturbation on me on the occasion of a
visit, and by explaining the sexual act to me. He advised me never to
practice manustupration, since it was injurious to health. He then
practiced mutual onanism with me, and explained that this was the only
way in which he could perform the sexual function. He had a horror of
women, and, therefore, had lived unhappily with his deceased wife. He
gave me a pressing invitation to visit him as often as possible. The
physician was a pompous man, and the father of two sons aged fourteen
and fifteen respectively, with whom in the following year I entered
into love-relations similar to those I had with my friend H.
“I was ashamed of my unfaithfulness to him, but at the same time
continued my relations with the physician. He practiced mutual
masturbation with me, showed me our spermatozoa under the microscope,
and pornographic works and pictures, which, however, did not please
me, because I had interest only for male forms. On the occasion of
later visits, he asked me to do him a favor which he had never yet
enjoyed, and which he very much desired. Since I loved him, I
acquiesced in everything. He dilated my anus with instruments, and
practiced pederasty on me, and at the same time performed
masturbation, so that I experienced pleasure and pain at once. After
this discovery I went immediately to my friend H., with the thought
that this beloved man would be able to give me still greater pleasure.
We practiced pederasty on each other, but were both deceived, and did
not repeat it; for passively I had only pain, and actively no
pleasure, while mutual onanism gave us both the greatest enjoyment.
Thereafter, out of gratitude, I was still frequently at the disposal
of the physician only. Up to my fifteenth year I practiced passive or
mutual onanism with my friend. Now I was quite grown, and had all
kinds of signs made to me by women and girls; but I fled from them as
Joseph did from Potiphar’s wife. At fifteen I came to the Capital. I
had but infrequent opportunity for the satisfaction of my sexual
inclination. I reveled in the sight of pictures and statues of male
forms, and could not keep from kissing the beloved statues. The
fig-leaves on the genitals were my principal annoyance.
“At seventeen I went to the University. There, again, I lived two
years with my friend H.
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