Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in PregnancyEllis, Havelock
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
Ellis, Havelock
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On the other hand, high cheek-bones and broad faces--a condition
most usually found associated with brachycephaly--have sometimes
been noted as associated with undue or violent sexuality. Marro
noted the excess of prominent cheek-bones in sexual offenders,
and in America it has been found that unchaste girls tend to have
broad faces. (_Pedagogical Seminary_, December, 1896, pp. 231,
235.)
It will be seen that, when we take a comprehensive view of the facts and
considerations involved, it is possible to obtain a more definite and
coherent picture of the physical signs of a marked aptitude for
detumescence than has hitherto been usually supposed possible. But we also
see that while the _ensemble_ of these signs is probably fairly reliable
as an index of marked sexuality, the separate signs have no such definite
significance, and under some circumstances their significance may even be
reversed.
FOOTNOTES:
[144] See Biérent, _La Puberté_; Marro, _La Pubertà_ (and enlarged French
translation, _La Puberté_), and portions of G.S. Hall's _Adolescence_;
also Havelock Ellis, _Man and Woman_ (fourth edition, revised and
enlarged).
[145] Adler, _Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes_, p. 174;
Moll, "Perverse Sexualempfindung, Psychische Impotenz und Ehe" (Section
II), in Senator and Kaminer, _Krankheiten und Ehe_.
[146] Roubaud, _Traité de l'Impuissance_, p. 524.
[147] Marro, _Caratteri del Delinquenti_, p. 374.
[148] Kryptadia, vol. ii, p. 258.
[149] Marro, _La Pubertà_, p. 196. In Italy, the sensuality of the lame is
the subject of proverbs.
[150] _Archivio di Psichiatria_, 1896, p. 515; Kryptadia, vol. vi, p. 212.
[151] Blumenbach, _Anthropological Treatises_, p. 248.
[152] Biérent, _La Puberté_, p. 148.
[153] Venturi, _Degenerazioni Psico-sessuali_, pp. 408-410.
[154] _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Part III, Section II, Mem. II, Sub. II.
[155] _British Gynæcological Journal_, February, 1887, p. 505.
[156] Power, _Lancet_, November 26, 1887.
[157] With regard to the sexual relationships of personal odor, see the
previous volume of these _Studies_, "Sexual Selection in Man," section on
Smell.
[158] In European folk-lore thick lips in a woman are sometimes regarded
as a sign of sensuality, Kryptadia, vol. ii, p, 258.
[159] The direct dependence of sexual pigmentation on the primary sexual
glands is well illustrated by a true hermaphroditic adult finch exhibited
at the Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam (May 31, 1890); this bird had a
testis on the right side and an ovary on the left, and on the right side
its plumage was of the male's colors, on the left of the female's color.
[160] See. e.g., Papillault, _Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie_, 1899, p.
446.
[161] Guinard, Art. "Castration," Richet's _Dictionnaire de Physiologie_.
[162] J. Whitridge Williams, _Obstetrics_, 1903, p. 132.
[163] _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, 1878, p. 19.
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