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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Case 4. P., aged 36, common laborer, was received at my clinic in the
beginning of November on account of spastic spinal paralysis. He
declares he comes of a healthy family. A stutterer from his youth.
Cranium microcephalic (cf. 53 cm.). Patient somewhat imbecile. He was
never sociable, never had a sexual emotion. The sight of a woman never
had anything enticing for him. He never had a desire to masturbate.
Erections frequent, but only on waking in the morning with a full
bladder, and without a trace of sexual feeling. Pollutions very
infrequent,—about once a year, in sleep,—and usually while dreaming
that he is concerned with a female. These dreams, however, as his
dreams in general, are not markedly erotic. He says the act of
pollution is not accompanied by any pleasurable sensation. Patient
does not feel this absence of sexual sensations. He gives the
assurance that his brother, aged 34, is in exactly the same sexual
condition as himself, and he makes it seem probable that a sister,
aged 21, is in a similar state. A younger brother, he says, is normal
sexually. The examination of his genitals reveals nothing abnormal
besides phimosis.
Hammond (“Sexual Impotence”), even with his wide experience, reports
only the following three cases of anæsthesia sexualis:—
Case 5. Mr. W., aged 33; strong, healthy, with normal genitals. He had
never experienced libido, and had vainly sought to awaken his
defective sexual instinct by means of obscene stories and intercourse
with prostitutes. On the occasion of such attempts he experienced only
disgust, with even a feeling of nausea, and became nervously and
mentally exhausted. Only once, when he forced the situation, did he
have a transitory erection. W. had never masturbated, and had had
pollutions about once every two months from his seventeenth year.
Important interests demanded that he marry. He had no _horror feminæ_,
and longed for a home and a wife, but felt that he was incapable of
the sexual act. He died, unmarried, in the American civil war.
Case 6. X., aged 27; genitals normal; never felt libido. Mechanical or
thermic stimuli easily induced erection, but instead of libido
sexualis there was regularly a desire for alcoholic indulgence. Such
excesses also induced erections, and he then sometimes masturbated. He
had a disinclination for women and a loathing of coitus. If, with an
erection, he made an attempt at coitus, it disappeared at once. Death
in coma during an attack of cerebral hyperæmia.
Case 7. Mrs. O., normally developed, healthy, menstruated regularly;
aged 35, fifteen years married. She never experienced libido, and
never had any erotic excitement in sexual intercourse with her
husband. She was not averse to coitus, and sometimes seemed to
experience pleasure in it, but she never had a wish for repetition of
cohabitation.
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