The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German EditionBloch, Iwan
Philosophy
The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German Edition
Bloch, Iwan
Sex; Sexual ethics
[102] _Cf._ the detailed account of this aspect of clothing in my
“Contributions to the Etiology of the Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol.
ii., pp. 334-336.
[103] _Cf._ Lucianus, “Erotics of Clothing,” published in _Die
Fackel_, edited by Karl Kraus (Vienna, No. 198, March 12, 1906, pp.
12, 13).
[104] _Cf._, in this connexion, Ernest Kapp, “Fundamental Outlines of
a Philosophy of Technique,” p. 267 (Brunswick, 1877).
[105] Lucianus, “Erotica of Clothing,” p. 16.
[106] W. Sombart, “Domestic Economy and Fashion” (Wiesbaden, 1902, p.
12).
[107] Stratz, “Woman’s Clothing,” pp. 123, 124.
[108] B. Ritter, “Nudities in the Middle Ages: Outlines of the History
of Morals,” in the _Annual of Science and Art_, published by O. Wigand
(Leipzig, 1855, vol. iii., p. 229).
[109] H. Bahr, “Clothing Reform,” _op. cit._, p. 666.
[110] G. Hirth, “Ways to Love,” p. 619.
[111] Leopold Bauer, in _Documents of Women_, March, 1902, pp. 675,
676.
[112] _Op. cit._, pp. 671, 672.
[113] Menge, “The Influence of Constricting Clothing upon the
Abdominal Organs, and more Especially upon the Reproductive Organs of
Woman” (Leipzig, 1904).
[114] O. Rosenbach, “The Corset and Anæmia” (Stuttgart, 1895).
[115] G. Hirth, “Ways to Love,” p. 49.
[116] The modern fancy for slender, ethereal, Pre-Raphaelite feminine
figures is also to some extent allied with a negative accentuation of
the breasts. Heinrich Pudor with good reason declares that at the
present time perhaps the strongest sexual influence of woman is
dependent upon the fact that “the existence of the breasts is
concealed, and the appearance of the male sex is simulated.” _Cf._ his
article, “Clothing and Sex,” in _Die Gemeinschaft der Eigenen_, August
number, 1906, p. 22. Still, the sexual stimulating influence of this
concealment of the breasts appears to be of a transient character, and
confined to certain circles of the hyperæsthetic and the homosexual.
[117] Heinrich Pudor, “Nackt-Kultur,” vol. ii.; “Clothing and Sex;
Limbs and Pelvis,” pp. 7, 8 (Berlin-Steglitz, 1906).
[118] _Cf._ the passages relating to this in my work, “Contributions,”
etc., vol. i., pp. 152, 153.
[119] Schopenhauer, “Parerga and Paralipomena,” vol. v., p. 176.
[120] G. Simmel, “Philosophy of Fashion, p. 24” (Berlin, 1906).
[121] “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol.
i., pp. 158-162.
[122] Ovid, in his “Ars Amandi,” long ago advised men who wished to
please women to avoid feminine adornments, and to leave those to the
homosexual.
[123] J. Ryan, “Prostitution in London,” p. 382 (London, 1839).
[124] In Alfred de Musset’s erotic story, “Gamiani,” he describes how
a woman danced on a mat of catskin, which gave rise in her to very
voluptuous sensations.
[125] “Confessions of My Life,” Memoirs of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, p.
38 (Berlin and Leipzig, 1906).
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