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)
"At 26 I married a pure, gentle woman, after having for ten
months before marriage led a life of celibacy. My wife died when
I was 30, and for about eight months I lived a celibate life.
Lascivious dreams sometimes occurred, but I invariably awoke
before ejaculation. Eventually I gave way to the cravings of my
strong sexual nature, but never wished for anything out of the
usual except intercourse from behind. A woman with marked
development of the nates has great attraction for me. Solitary
masturbation has for some time ceased, but a nude woman in the
act of masturbation with her back to me gives me great pleasure.
I am as strong sexually at 38 as I was at 20, only I never want
women unless I am brought into actual contact with them and they
are hairy and have large pelvic development. I am in excellent
health. Genitals are well developed, and I am clothed with hair
from the chin to the genitals. My skull is dolichocephalic. I am
violent and tenacious in temper, high-strung, and rapid in
thought and action. My digestion is good, but I have a tendency
to constipation. Occasionally I have a twinge of pain below the
occipital region.
"My early views of women have changed; I no longer deify them,
though I study them. I have known very sensual women living at
home in respectable middle-class society. One, in particular, a
girl of 18, after coitus used to excite me lingually. I have had
a sweetheart who remained _virgo intacta_. Had I seduced her, as
I could have done, I should have lost all interest in her. I
could never bear the presence of naked men, and would never go to
a public swimming bath for that reason. I regard myself as a man
of abnormally strong, but, on the whole, healthy and wholesome,
sexual feelings. As a rule, I have coitus twice or oftener in one
week and I practise withdrawal. I am a total abstainer, and never
could embrace a woman who smelled of drink."
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