Note 456 — Chapter XVII

Hermann Joseph Löwenstein, “De Mentis Aberrationibus ex Partium Sexualium Conditione Abnormi Oriundis” (Bonn, 1823).

[457] Joseph Häussler, “The Relations of the Sexual System to the Psyche” (Würzburg, 1826).

[458] Heinrich Kaan, “Psychopathia Sexualis” (Leipzig, 1844).

[459] R. von Krafft-Ebing, “Psychopathia Sexualis” (Stuttgart, 1882).

[460] We must not omit to mention the fact that a little earlier the French physician Moreau de Tours published a comprehensive work upon psychopathia sexualis, entitled “Des Aberrations du Sens Génésique” (Paris, 1880).

[461] S. Freud, “Three Essays in Contribution to the Sexual Theory,” p. 70.

[462] Cf. the interesting remarks of G. H. C. Lippert, “Mankind in a State of Nature,” p. 1 et seq. (Elberfeld, 1818).

[463] Christian Muff, “What is Civilization?” pp. 30, 31 (Halle, 1880).

[464] G. L. N. Delvincourt, “De la Mucite Génito-Sexuelle,” p. 64 (Paris, 1834). Apt remarks on the alleged degeneration of the French are to be found also in the work of P. Näcko, “The Alleged Degeneration of the Latin Races, more Especially of the French,” published in Archives for Racial and Social Biology, 1906, vol. iii.

[465] As, for example, Immermann, in his work “Epigonen,” published at the same period (1836), assumes. In the mouth of the physician he puts the following words: “The physician has a great task to perform in the present day. Diseases, especially nervous troubles, to which for a number of years the human race has been especially disposed, are a modern product.” Cf. Leopold Hirschberg, “Medical Matters as dealt with in General Literature: the Judgment of a Member of the Laity regarding Nervousness in the Year 1876,” published in Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1906, No. 41, p 428. Seventy years ago the German people was “nervous”; thirty-four years before Sedan, thirty years after Jena! Therefore neither Jena nor Sedan can be connected with the nervous “degeneration.” The authors of the eighteenth century (!) made similar complaints of the nervousness of their time, upon which Cullen and Brown founded their medical theories.

[466] J. Pohl-Pincus, “The Diseases of the Human Hair, and the Care of the Hair,” third edition, p. 57 (Leipzig, 1885).

[467] Carl Bleibtreu, “Paradoxes the Conventional Lies,” sixth edition, pp. 1, 2 (Berlin, 1888).

[468] See “Nature and Man,” E. Ray Lankester’s Romanes Lecture, 1905.—Translator.

[469] G. Hirth, “Hereditary Enfranchisement,” published in “Ways to Freedom,” pp. 106-127 (Munich, 1903).

[470] Näcke’s thesis is in agreement with this, that “all sexual abnormal practices in an asylum are for the most part much more rare than the laity, or even many physicians, imagine.” Cf. P. Näcke, “Some Psychologically Obscure Cases of Sexual Aberrations in the Asylum,” published in the Annual for Sexual Intermediate Stages, vol. v., p. 196 (Leipzig, 1903). See also, by the same author, “Problemi nel Campo delle Psicopatie Sessuali,” in Archivio delle Psicopatie Sessuali, 1896; “Sexual Perversities in the Asylum,” in the Wiener klinische Rundschau, 1899, Nos. 27-30.

[471] S. Freud, op. cit., pp. 19, 20.

[472] A. Hoche, “The Problem of the Forensic Condemnation of Sexual Transgressions,” published in the Neurologisches Centralblatt, 1896, p. 58.

[473] Ploss-Bartels, “Das Weib in der Natur- und Volkerkunde,” eighth edition, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1906).

[474] Mantegazza, “Anthropological and Historical Studies on the Sexual Relationship of Mankind.”

[475] F. S. Krauss, “Morals and Customs relating to Sexual Reproduction among the Southern Slavs,” published in “Kryptadia,” vols. vi.-viii. (Paris, 1899-1902); and in the larger work, “Anthropophyteia” (Leipzig, 1904-1906).

[476] In all his works.

[477] Cf. Charles Darwin, “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” vol. i., p. 182 (2 vols., London, 1898).

[478] Cf. the inquiry of C. Wagner, containing extremely valuable material, “The Sexual and Moral Relationships of the Protestant Agricultural Population of the German Empire” (3 vols., Leipzig, 1897, 1898).

[479] “Prostitution in Berlin and its Victims,” p. 27 (Berlin, 1846).

[480] Cf. the detailed bibliography of these works in my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. i., pp. 29, 30.

[481] Typical sexual perversions have, however, been observed even in children, and it is this fact which has chiefly given rise to the doctrine of the “congenital” character of sexual perversions.

[482] Cf. the remarks of the Marquis de Sade regarding the abnormal sexuality of elderly men, in my “New Research Concerning the Marquis de Sade,” pp. 421, 422 (Berlin, 1904).

[483] C. Albert, “Free Love,” p. 148.

[484] Joseph Guislain, “Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases,” p. 229 (Berlin, 1854).

[485] Kowalewski, “Perversions of Sexual Sensibility in Epileptics,” published in the Jahrbücher für Psychiatrie, 1887, vol. vii., No. 3.

[486] C. Lombroso, “Recent Advances in the Study of Criminology,” pp. 197-200 (Gera, 1899).—Tarnowsky has even described a form of “epileptic pæderasty” (cf. B. Tarnowsky, “Morbid Phenomena of Sexual Sensibility,” pp. 8, 51; Berlin, 1886).

[487] E. Laurent (“Morbid Love,” pp. 43-45; Leipzig, 1895) regards tubercular inheritance as an important etiological factor of sexual anomalies, for these occur more frequently in blonde, weakly individuals, than in brunettes (?).

[488] Bacon, “The Effect of Developmental Anomalies and Disorders of the Female Reproductive Organs upon the Sexual Impulse,” published in the American Journal of Dermatology, 1899, vol. iii., No. 2.

[489] M. Féré, “Sexual Hyperæsthesia in Association with Shortness of the Frænum Preputii,” published in the Monatshefte für praktische Dermatologie, 1896, vol. xxiii., p. 45.

[490] A. G. Wollenmann, “Phimosis as a Cause of Perversion of Sexual Sensibility,” published in Der ärztliche Praktiker, 1895, No. 23. Matthaes has shown that morbid changes of the genital sphere or its vicinity are apt to give rise to offences against morality (“The Statistics of Offences against Morality,” published in the Archiv für Kriminalanthropologie, 1903, vol. xii., p. 319).