Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in WomenEllis, Havelock
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
Ellis, Havelock
Sex; Sex (Psychology)
Hoche mentions a case in which a man was accused of repeatedly
exhibiting his sexual organs to the servant-girl at a house; she
enjoyed the spectacle (_Neurologisches Centralblatt_, 1896, No.
2). It may well be that in some cases of self-exhibition the
offender has good reason, on the ground of previous experience,
for thinking that he is giving pleasure. "When we used to go to
bathe while I was at school," writes a correspondent, "girls from
a poor quarter of the lower town (some quite 16) often followed
us and stood to watch about a hundred yards from the river. They
used to 'giggle' and 'pass remarks.' I have seen girls of this
class peeping through chinks of a palisade around a bathing-place
on the Thames." A correspondent who has given special attention
to the point tells me of the great interest displayed by young
girls of the people in Italy in the sexual organs of men.
Curiosity--whether in the form of the desire for knowledge or the
desire for sensation--is, of course, not confined to young girls
and women of lower social strata, though in them it is less often
restrained by motives of self-respect and good feeling. "At the
age of 8," writes a correspondent, "I was one day playing in a
spare room with a girl of about 12 or 13. She gave me a
penholder, and, crouching upon her hands and knees, with her
posterior toward me, invited me to introduce the instrument into
the vulva. This was the first time I had seen the female parts,
and, as I appeared to be somewhat repelled, she coaxed me to
comply with her desire. I did as she directed, and she said that
it gave her pleasure. Several times after I repeated the same act
at her request. A friend tells me that when he was 10 a girl of
16 asked him to lace up her boots. While he was kneeling at her
feet his hand touched her ankle. She asked him to put his hand
higher, and repeated 'Higher, higher,' till he touched the
pudenda, and finally, at her request, put his finger into the
vestibule. This girl was very handsome and amiable, and a
favorite of the boy's mother. No one suspected this propensity."
Again, a correspondent (a man of science) tells me of a friend
who lately, when dining out, met a girl, the daughter of a
country vicar; he was not specially attracted to her and paid her
no special attention. "A few days afterward he was astonished to
receive a call from her one afternoon (though his address is not
discoverable from any recognized source). She sat down as near to
him as she could, and rested her hand on his thigh, etc., while
talking on different subjects and drinking tea. Then without any
verbal prelude she asked him to have connection with her. Though
not exactly a Puritan, he is not the man to jump at such an offer
from a woman he is not in love with, so, after ascertaining that
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