"An observation of practical importance to me at that time was this: I awoke in the morning after a pollution at night, with an acute headache of a specific kind, and erection. This had happened before, after pollution, and the erection suggested to me whether 'a hair of the dog that bit me' might not prove beneficial. As the excitation proceeded, the pain in the head was directly drained away, as if I were drawing it out. Other pain is also relieved for the moment, such as neuralgia, but to return soon with interest. This, however, was specific and pure benefit. The next time I got a bad headache of this character, without preceding pollution, I tried the remedy, at about 10 A.M. The semen was copious and watery, and the relief was marked, but in an hour's time the headache returned. I had never repeated the act at short interval, i.e., while the organs were under the influence of a previous act, and now I tried the effect of that. The second emission was also profuse, but much thicker, and the relief much greater. In about three hours the headache was, however, again intolerable, and, the connection being now clear, I ventured on a third act, which proved to be the most voluptuous I had so far experienced, the nisus being far more intense. The semen was copious, but thick and ropy, with lumps as large as small peas that could scarcely be crushed with the finger, and yellow in color and rank in odor. After that I was perfectly well and kept so. (The urethra was blocked so that I could with difficulty stroke the masses out.) Later I have examined such semen microscopically and found the spermatozoa dead and disintegrating. My period in my best years—21 to 48—was twice a week, the odd number being an inconvenience, and I have since endeavored to avoid accumulations, emptying the receptacles on the fourth day, when I remembered the interval, even if the organs did not remind me. On the fifth day headache would otherwise appear and perhaps two acts be needful, or, if I forgot about it for a week, three acts running. That I did not abuse the function the fact proves that every year I would forget about it two to three times and have to resort to this drastic mode.[230] But there is quite a different headache that follows on indulgence during convalescence or when the system is otherwise much lowered. Railway traveling greatly accentuates the need with me; also riding. Girls aroused no physical desire, though I chiefly sought their society, and even after the genital tension was so pronounced, up to 20, I was troubled by the fact that women did not affect me sexually. About this time a buxom girl I liked and who liked me vehemently laid her hand on my arm, in trying to persuade me to give up shooting. The phallus leaped simultaneously. That was my first sexual experience—the proof that the nexus was established between the genital mechanism and the complex of feeling we call sexual.

"Age 24. At this age I went to stay at a house where there were two very pretty girls. I at once lost my heart to the elder, L.B., as she did to me (strong constitution, but refined nature; parents sound; brought up in the country; eleven months' breast-milk). 'What a mother she will make,' I said to myself. Now began a time of the spiritual and physical communion that I had pictured to myself....

"I am 60 now; she is 57. We are still like lovers. No; not like lovers; we are lovers. Of course, I do not mean to imply that sexual impressions have preponderated in our life, as they do in this account. Quite the contrary. We are both strong and, according to all accounts, unusually well preserved. We are very temperate. Since 48 I notice a gradual decline of the erotic propensity. It is now once in five or seven days. Since the menopause her propensity has declined markedly, but it is not extinct, and she delights as much as ever in my delight. She began to menstruate at 12, was regular till 17; then got chlorotic for a few months, soon recovered, though menstruation was often irregular, but never painful. Sexual experience began at 25. I have often wondered if a moderate self-gymnastic of the faculty, in Venturi's sense, would not have educated her genital sphere, and made her a still better comrade—excluded the periods of irregularity and frigidity. The stage of latency was too protracted. We often noticed that, when menstruation was due or nearly so, prolonged love-sports at bedtime would be followed by menstruation in the morning. We never were separated for longer than three months, and on that occasion, menstruation being delayed, she tried what masturbation would do to determine it, and with a positive result. My need, though less, is as imperative as ever. Seminal headaches—as I would call them—have ceased since 50; the accumulation only produces muddleheadedness. But I have not suffered accumulation over ten to at most twelve days. The quantity of semen is also less. The sensibility of the corpora has declined much; that of the glans is unimpaired. Erection is good. Orgasm takes two to four minutes to provoke, against forty to fifty seconds when young; it is in some respects even more enjoyable—perhaps less intense, but much more prolonged. I have no reaction from indulgence. But I never press it; it always presses me. For overaccumulation, with headache or muddleheadedness, the wifely hand is more efficacious than the vulva. Even the most vivid dream of coitus fails to compass the orgasm now. The peripheral stimulus is essential.

"In our case physical and psychical intensity of emotion have gone hand in hand. I have become specialized to one woman, despite an erotic endowment certainly not meager. The pervasive fragrance makes one adore the whole sex, but my wife does not interpret this homage in a sexually promiscuous sense. We both agree in the principle that if one cannot hold the affection of the other there is no title to it. Tarde says that constancy in love is rarely anything but a voyage of discovery round the beloved object. I am perpetually making fresh discoveries. But her constancy, I mean the high level of her passion, is independent of discoveries."

FOOTNOTES:

[230] "A practical question arising out of the foregoing is whether such semen should be committed to the vagina? Its presence is known to me by constitutional symptoms (toxic). It is the last to be expelled, and its degenerate germ-cells have no chance against those of the normal fluid deposited in preceding acts, supposing that to be retained. But it may well happen that the prior emissions only reach the pouch, whereas the last is injected into the womb itself. I have frequently had the sense of the orifices of meatus and cervix matching directly, especially when she had powerful orgasm (including two conceptions), and of the semen being sucked from me rather than occluded in its exit, as also happens, requiring me to relax the urge a little. At 18 to 19 the semen of a 'pollution' has left tender red patches where it dried on the neighboring skin, and deep straw-colored stains in the linen."



INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Abu-l-Faraj Acton, W. Adler, O. Adlerz Aguilaniedo Aldrich Allen, G.W. Alonzi Aly-Belfadel Amand, St. Andrews, W. Angell Arndt, R. Avebury, Lord

Bach, G. Baker, Smith Ballet Balls-Headley Bancroft, H.H. Bantock Baretti Barrus, Clara Bartels, Max Beaunis Bechterew Bell, Sanford Benecke, E.F.M. Bernard, P. Bernelle Blackwell, E. Bladon, J. Blagden Bloch Bloch, Iwan Bloom Blumroeder Boerhaave Bohn, G. Bonstetten Booth, D.S. Bos, C. Bossard Bouchereau Bourneville Brantome Bray Brehm Breitenstein Bridgman, W.G. Brierre de Boismont Browne, W.A.F. Brunfels Bryan, D. Buechner Burckhardt, J.L. Burdach Burk, F.L. Burton, Robert Burton, Si: R. Buscalioni Busch, D.W.H. Butler, A.G.

Cabanes Cabanis Calmann Campbell, Harry Cannon, W. Capgras Casanova Catullus Cellini Ceni Cervantes Chapman, G. Christian Clark, Campbell Clarke, E.D. Cleland Clement of Alexandria Clerambault Clevenger Clouston Coelius Aurelianus Coleridge Colin Collas Colman, W.A. Coltman Congreve Cook, F. Cook, J. Cooke, Kev. L.H. Cornevin Cotterill, J.M. Coutagne Crawley, E. Crofton Crooke, W. Cullerre

Daniell, W.F. Darwin, C. Darwin, E. D'Aulnoy, Countess Daumas Davenport, Isabel Debreyne Dillmann Diodorus Disselhorst D'Orbigny Duchenne Duehren, E. See Bloch, Iwan. Dulaure Dumas, G. Duncan, Matthews Dunlop, W. Dupre Durkheim

Earle, A. Effertz Eklund Ellis, Havelock Ellis, Sir A.B. Engelmann Epaulow Erb Espinas Eulenburg Eysseric Eyre, E.J.

Fabre, J.H. Fehling Fere Ferenczi Ferrand Ferrero Ferriani Finck Fliess Foley Forbes, H.O. Forel Forman, S. Franklin, Miles Frazer, J.G. French-Sheldon, Mrs. Freud Friedenthal Fuerbringer Fustel de Coulanges

Galen Gall Gardiner, J.S. Garnier, P. Gason, S. Gattel Gaupp Gennep, A. Van Gibb Gillen Ginisty Glaeveke Glynn Godard Goltz Goncourt, J. de Gosse, P.H. Gourmont, Remy de Gowers, Sir W. Grisebach, E. Groos, K. Grosse, E. Gualino Guinard Guise Guyon Gurlitt Guttceit

Haecker Haddon, A.C. Haeckel Hagen Halban Hall, G. Stanley Haller Hamerling Hammer Hammond Hamon Hartmann, E. von Hawkesworth Hayes, J.J. Heape, W. Heard Hegar Heine Henz Herodotus Hicks, Braxton Hippocrates Hirn Hirschfeld Hoche Holden, W.C. Holder, A.B. Holt, R.B. Horace Hornius Horsley Howard Howard, H.E. Howarth, O.H. Hubert Hudson, W.H. Hutchinson, Sir J. Huysmans Hyades

Jaeger Janet Janin Jayle Jerome, St. Joest, W. Johnston, Sir H. Jones, Brynmor Jones, Ernest

Kafemann Keppler Key, Ellen Kiefer Kiernan, J.G. Kisch, E.H. Kleinpaul Kline Kolischer Kossmann Kowalevsky Krabbes Krafft-Ebing Krauss Kubary Kulischer Kuelpe

Lacassagne Lacroix, P. Lagrange Lancaster Landor, A.H., Savage Lanphear Laserre Laurentius Lawson Lea Lecaillon Lehmann-Nitsche Leppmann Lipa Bey Loeb Lombroso Long, S.H. Lop Low, Brooke Loti, P. Loewenfeld Lubbock (Lord Avebury) Lucian Lucretius Lunier Luther

Macdonald, Rev. J. Mace MacGillicuddy MacLennan Macnaughton-Jones Maeder Maeterlinck Manaceine, Marie de Mandeville Mantegazza Marandon de Montyel Marchesini Marcuse, Max Mardrus Marie, A. Marie, P. Marie de France Mariner Marlowe Marot, Clement Marro Marsden, W. Marshall, F.H.A. Marshall, H.R. Martial Martins Matignon Maudsley Mauriac Maus Maxwell Mayer, A. McIlroy, A.L. Meibomius Melville, Herman Meung, Jean de Meyer, A.B. Middleton, T. Miklucho-Macleay Millais, J.G. Millant Minovici Mirandola, Pico della Moebius Modigliani, E. Moll Montaigne Montet Montgomery, T.H. Moraglia More, Sir Thomas Morgan, C. Lloyd Mortimer, G. Moule Moyer Mugnier Mueller, R. Munde, P. Munzer

Naecke Napier, Leith Nardelli Nenter Nesterus Nicefero Nietzsche Nussbaum Nystroem

Obici Ordericus, Vitalis Otway Ovid Owen, Sir R.

Pactet Papillon Parent-Duchatelet Partridge Paullinus Peckham, G.W. Pelikan Penta Petronius Pfister Pflueger Pieron Pilet, R. Pitre Pitres Pittard Platen Plautus Plazzonus Ploss Plutarch Poore, G.V. Porosz Portman Potter, M.A. Poulton, E.B. Power, H. Prinzing Propertius Purnell, C.W.

Quiros, B. de

Rabelais Raciborski Racovitza, E.G. Raymond Rees Regis Regoyos Restif de la Bretonne Reverdin Rhodiginus Rhys Ribot Riedel Ritter Robin Rohleder Roubaud Rousseau, J.J. Rousset Roux, J. Russo Ryan, M.

Sacher-Masoch Sacher-Masoch, Wanda von Sade, De Sadger Sajous Salillas Sand, George Sanitchenko Savage, Sir G. Schaefer Schaller Schellong Schlichtegroll, C.F. von Schmidt-Heuert Schopenhauer Schreiner, S.C. Cronwright Schrenck-Notzing Schroeter Schultz Schultze-Malkowsky Schurig Scott, Colin Seligmann Selous, Edmund Senancour Serieux Sergi Shakespeare Shattock Shaw, Claye Shufeldt Sinibaldus Skeat Smith, Lapthorn Smith, W. Robertson Smyth, Brough Sollier Spallanzani Spencer, Baldwin Spencer, Herbert Spitzka Spix Starbuck Stcherbak Stearns Stefanowsky Steinach, E. Stendhal, De Stevens Stevens, H.V. Struempell Stubbs Sully Sutherland, A. Swieten, Van

Tait, Lawson Tambroni Tarchanoff Tarde Tate, H.R. Tautain Taylor, Jeremy Tchlenoff Tertullian Thoinot Thomas, N. Thomas, P. Thompson Tillier Tilt Tolstoy Townsend, J. Treves, Marco Trousseau Tschisch Turley Turnbull, J. Tylor

Vahness Vambery Vatsyayana Vedeler Velten Venette Vespucci, Amerigo Vincent, Swale Voisin

Wallace, A.R. Wallaschek Waller, E. Walsingham Weismann Weissenberg Wesche, W. Wessmann, Rev. R. Westermarck Wiedemann Weysse Williams, Montagu Williams, W. Roger Winckel Windscheid Wittenberg Wolbarst Wollstonecraft, Mary

Yellowlees

Zacchia Zambaco Ziegler, H.E. Ziehen Zmigrodski



INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Abduction of women in Great Britain Abstinence in women, effects of sexual Adolescence, criminality and Adolescent girls, sexual manifestations in Adrenal glands Africa, marriage by capture in sexual instinct in Agelena labyrinthica Ainu, love-bite among Algolagnia ideal Algophily Amblyopia, post-marital American Indians, courtship among sexual instinct in Ampallang Anaesthesia in women, sexual a cause of sterility causes of Anger and sexual emotion Anhedonia Anxiety as a sexual stimulant Ardisson Argus pheasant, courtship of Aristotle as a masochist Arrest of movement producing sexual excitement Ascetic attitude toward women, the Assaults on children by women, sexual Australians, courtship among sexual instinct in Auto-intoxication by muscular movement Auto-sadism

Bambula dance Bathory, Countess Bedouins, marriage by capture among Bertrand, Sergeant Birds, sexual impulse in Bismarck, traces of masochism in Biting in relationship to sexual instinct Bladder and sexual organs, relationship between Blood, the fascination of Borneo, use of ampallang in Brazil, courtship in Bullying

Capture, marriage by Castration Cerebellum as a sexual center Cerebral sexual centers, alleged Chained, the idea of being Chastity among savages China, marriage ceremony in Chinese eunuchs Chinese hedgehog Christianity and women Church and flagellation, the Coitus, mechanism of compared to epilepsy often sacred among savages Combat and courtship Contrectation Courtship Cow-birds, courtship of Crime as a manifestation of adolescence Criminality in relation to marriage Cruelty among animals in human beings Cymri, marriage customs of

Dancing in relation to sexual impulse Dancing among Australians the most usual method of attaining tumescence why it acts so powerfully on the organism Day-dreams, erotic Degenerative conditions on sexual desire, influence of Dendryphantes elegans Detumescence, impulse of Diffusion of sexual impulse in women Discipline, the Disgust as a sexual stimulant Divorce in relation to sexual difference in the suicide-rate Doraphobia Dreams of struggling horses erotic Drunkenness in relation to marriage Ducks, courtship among Ductless glands

Eider-ducks, courtship of Ejaculation, premature Emotion aroused by pain Ephesian matron, the Epilepsy and micturition analogy between coitus Erotic symbolism Erotisation Eskimos, marriage by capture among sexual instinct in Esthetic sense of animals, alleged Estrus Eunuchs, sexual impulse in Evacuation theory of sexual impulse Excess in intercourse not injurious to women Exercise, the intoxication of muscular Exhibitionism, a cause of

Faroe Islanders, courtship among. Fatigue Fear as a sexual stimulant Fetichism Fetters, the fascination of Flagellation Frigidity, in women, sexual a cause of sterility Frog, sexual instinct of Fuegians, sexual instinct in Funerals as a sexual stimulant Fur, fascination of

Gelding, sexual impulse in Genital sphere larger in women Geskel Glandulae vesiculares Goethe's masochism Gonorrhoea in young boys Greek antiquity, love in Grief as a sexual stimulant Griselda Gurus, courtship among

Hanging and sexual excitement Head hunting Helix aspersa Hemothymia Hormones Horror feminae normal in absence of sexual impulse Horses, sexual perversion in sexual excitement produced by spectacle of Hungary, masochism in Hunger, analogy between sexual impulse and Hyperhedonia Hyphedonia Hypnotic suggestions and frigidity

Impregnation in relation to tumescence Impulse, definition of sexual India, courtship in sexual instinct in Indians, courtship among American sexual instinct among American Indonesian peoples, use of ampallang, etc., among Insanity, in relation to marriage in relation to sexual instinct Instinct, definition of Internal secretions Intoxication, the fascination of of muscular movement Inversion, associated with masochism

Jealousy among savages Jew, sexual impulse in

Kaffirs, courtship among Kambion Kirghiz, marriage by capture among Kiss, origin of

Lactation, no intercourse among some savages during Laughter and the sexual sphere Leistes superciliaris Love-bite, the Love-songs rare among savages Lycanthropy

Malays, coitus among courtship among sexual instinct in Mantis religiosa Maoris, marriage by capture among sexual instinct in Marquesans, courtship among sexual instinct in Marriage by capture in relation to suicide in relation to insanity and criminality Marsh-bird, courtship of Masochism among Slav women definition of its psychological mechanism Masturbation in women Menopause, sexual impulse after Menstruation and sexual impulse Micturition and sexual impulse Mixoscopia, hysterical Modesty among savages object of obsessions of Molothrus bonariensis Moluccas, courtship in Monogamy, its advantages for men Mortality connected with the development of the sexual instinct Moslems, coitus among Moths, courtship of Motion, the pleasure of arrest of Muscular movement, auto-intoxication by Music, sexual influence of

Necrophilism Necrosadism Negresses not jealous Negro eunuchs Negroes, sexual instinct in Neurasthenia, sexual New Caledonia, courtship in New Guinea, courtship in New Hebrides, courtship in New Mexico, courtship in New Zealand, marriage by capture in Nubia, eunuchs in

Obsessions, sexual Octopus, courtship of Odour, excitation by Oneida community Ooephorectomy and sexual impulse Orgasm lasts longer in women Ostrich, courtship of Ovariotomy and sexual impulse Ovary, secretions of Ox, sexual impulse in

Pain the essential element in algolagnia Palang Papuans, courtship among sexual instinct in Parturition sometimes painless Passivism Passivity of women only apparent Penis in lower animals, peculiarities of Periodicity of sexual impulse among savages greater in women Pitangus Bolivianus Pleasure, in what sense pain may be felt as its manifestations resemble those of pain Plover, dances of great Power in sexual sphere, love of Precocity of women, sexual Pregnancy, savages often avoid intercourse during Probenaechte Procreation among savages, sacredness of Pro-estrum Prostitutes' love of souteneur Prostitution not found under primitive conditions Puberty in girls, sexual manifestations at

Rais, Gilles de Rana temporaria Rape and sadism Rat, sexual instinct of white Reeves and ruffs Reflex action, instinct and Reidal Religious flagellation Religious storm and stress in women Reproductive impulse, alleged Respiration in connection with sexual emotion Responsibility of Sadists Rome, eunuchs in ancient Rosseau's masochism Russia, masochism in

Sacher-Masoch Sacredness of procreation among savages Sade, De Sadism definition of its psychological mechanism responsibility in often combined with masochism ideal Saitis pulex Savages, sexual erethism in dancing among sexual impulse weak in Sea-gulls, courtship among Secondary sexual characters Seminal receptacles of frogs Seminal vesicles functions of Senegal, courtship in Sensibility of genital sphere in women Sensory acuteness in women Sexual cerebral centers, hypothetical Sexual impulse, definition of Sexual incompetence, prevalence of Sexual selection, psychological aspects of Sexual season Shaftesbury's supposed masochism Shoe-fetichism Sicily, courtship in love-bite in Slavery, erotic Slavs, courtship customs of masochism among Slug, courtship of Smell, stimulation of Snails, sexual process in Social class and sexual feeling Soleilland Song of birds, sexual significance of Spadones Spain, flagellation in Spiders, courtship of Sprit-sail yard Stabbers Sterility, absence of sexual desire in women as a cause of Stone-curlew, dances of Storm and stress in women, religious Strangle, the impulse to Subjection in women, sexual Suckling, compared to sexual act no intercourse among some savages during Suicide, divorce and Sumatra, courtship in Suspension and sexual excitement Swinging and sexual excitement Symbolism, erotic

Taboo, sexual Tahitians, courtship among Teasing Telum veneris Thlasiae Thlibiae Torture, the attraction of Tumescence Turcomans, marriage by capture among Tyrant-bird, courtship of

Urination in relation to sexual excitement

Vacher Vampirism Variation in sexual impulse greater in women Venereal disease in the young Vesicles, function of seminal

Waltz, origin of the Warens, Mme. de Werwolf Whipping in relation to the sexual emotions Women-stabbers Wrestling combats

Zooesadism Zulus, courtship among

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