Note O — Chapter IX · LIBIDO SEXUALIS

Thus woman commands over a greater number of erogenous zones than the man. Hence the intensity of her libido ought naturally to be higher than that of the man.

According to Hammond the neck and mouth of the uterus are supplied with sensibility in its character, like that possessed by the clitoris. On the other hand, Roubaud says that many women have confessed to him that they are perfectly insensible to the titillations of the clitoris, and experience libido only by the touch of the walls of the vaginal entrance. One of the author’s patients experiences a painful sensation by the titillation of the clitoris, while the touch of the vaginal wall induces magnam libidinem.