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 patient made several other statements concerning his vita
sexualis. His abnormal sexual desire had troubled him by its
intensity. He went to sleep with sexual thoughts; they troubled him
through the night and were still with him when he awoke. He was never
safe for any length of time from the impulsion of the abnormal ideas
that excited him; to which, indeed, he gave himself up willingly, and
from which he could free himself for a short time only by onanism.
In response to my question, the patient stated that any other means of
punishment of women than beating the back, and nates particularly, had
no charm for him. Neither binding them, walking on them, nor striking
them, gives him such pleasure. This is to be emphasized the more,
since the whipping given the woman affords him sexual pleasures
because its effect on her is “humiliating, mortifying,” and because
she should “feel that she is completely in his power.” Too, it would
give the patient no pleasure to beat a woman on any other part of her
body than those mentioned, or to cause her pain in any other way than
by blows. Multum minorem ei affert voluptatem si nates suæ a muliere
verberantur; tamen ea res sæpe ejaculationem seminis effecit, sed hæc
fieri putat erectione deficienti. Inter verbera autem penem in vaginam
immittendo nullam voluptatem se habere ratus qualibet parte corporis
feminæ pene tacte semen ejaculat. _Just as in beating the woman his
pleasure lay in humiliating her, so with the relations reversed he was
sexually excited by the fact that the beating humiliated him and he
felt himself to be completely in the woman’s power._ No other personal
humiliation than a beating on his nates could excite him. To allow
himself to be bound or walked on by a woman is repugnant to him.
The patient’s dreams, as far as they were of an erotic nature, were
directed in the same way as his sexual inclinations while awake;
actual ejaculation also often took place in dreams. Whether the
perverse sexual thoughts first occurred in dreams or the waking state,
the patient is not able to state, owing to the fact that his memory
goes back so far,—to his seventh year. But he thinks that these
thoughts first occurred to him while awake. In his dreams it
frequently seemed to him that he was striking a man, which also caused
ejaculation. In the waking state it excited him but _very little_ to
think of striking a man. The nude form of a man had _no attraction
whatever_ for him, while the nude form of a woman had a decided charm
for him, though his libido found its real satisfaction only when the
acts previously described took place; and, as he states, he feels no
desire for coitus in vaginam.
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