Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4: Sexual Selection In ManEllis, Havelock
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4: Sexual Selection In Man
Ellis, Havelock
Sex; Sex (Psychology)
covering of curiously wrought network and feathers. The music of the hura
was the large and small drum and occasionally the flute. The movements
were generally slow, but always easy and natural, and no exertion on the
part of the performers was wanting to render them graceful and
attractive."[168] We see here, in this very typical example, how the
extraneous visual aids of movement, color, and brilliancy are invoked in
conjunction with music to make the appeal of beauty more convincing in the
process of sexual selection.
It may be in place here to mention, in passing, the considerable
place which vision occupies in normal and abnormal methods of
heightening tumescence under circumstances which exclude definite
selection by beauty. The action of mirrors belongs to this group
of phenomena. Mirrors are present in profusion in high-class
brothels--on the walls and also above the beds. Innocent youths
and girls are also often impelled to contemplate themselves in
mirrors and sometimes thus, produce the first traces of sexual
excitement. I have referred to the developed forms of this kind
of self-contemplation in the Study of Auto-erotism, and in this
connection have alluded to the fable of Narcissus, whence Näcke
has since devised the term Narcissism for this group of
phenomena. It is only necessary to mention the enormous
production of photographs, representing normal and abnormal
sexual actions, specially prepared for the purpose of exciting or
of gratifying sexual appetites, and the frequency with which even
normal photographs of the nude appeal to the same lust of the
eyes.
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