Note 808 — Chapter XXXII

R. von Krafft-Ebing, “Psychopathia Sexualis.” Only Authorized Translation from the Twelfth revised German Edition (Rebman Limited, London, 1906).

[809] Cf. my “New Researches concerning the Marquis de Sade,” pp. 437-450 (Berlin, 1904).

[810] Recently A. Moll (Enzyklopädische Jahrbücher der gesamten Heilkunde, 1906, vol. xiii., pp. 238, 239) has expressed the “opinion,” without offering the slightest proof in support of his views, that “The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom” is a forgery. But I myself, in my French edition of this work, have given all the historical and critical details regarding its origin; moreover, the original manuscript, as has been shown by the examination of all the experts, (1) dates from the eighteenth century; (2) is throughout in de Sade’s original handwriting; (3) is written in his characteristic style; and, finally, the forgery of this manuscript, a roll 12 metres 12 centimetres in length, written on both sides in letters of microscopic smallness, would be an absolute impossibility. If anything is genuine and authentic, this work is such. Dr. Albert Eulenburg, without doubt one of the most experienced, if not the most experienced, student of de Sade, assured me that this work unquestionably came from de Sade’s pen. I must, therefore, reject Moll’s opinion, which was formed independently of any proof, and without any examination of the original manuscript, as unscientific and utterly futile.

[811] In popular writings dealing with the sexual life, I have myself found many interesting remarks, and even many new ideas. Naturally, when I say “popular,” I mean truly popular writings, not hawkers’ literature or garbage literature.

[812] A. von Schrenck-Notzing, “Suggestive Therapeutics in Cases of Morbid Manifestations of Sexual Sensibility,” preface, p. ix (Stuttgart, 1892).

[813] Von Schrenck-Notzing, “Bibliography of the Psychology and Psychopathology of the Vita Sexualis,” published in the Zeitschrift für Hypnotismus, vol. vii., Nos. 1 and 2, p. 121.

[814] In order to give an idea of the great interest in sexual science exhibited by the most diverse circles of cultured men of the present day, I shall merely mention in this note a few names, without pretending to give an exhaustive list: R. von Krafft-Ebing, Mantegazza, Ploss-Bartels, A. Eulenburg, von Schrenck-Notzing, Fr. S. Krauss, Tarnowsky, L. Löwenfeld, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, S. Freud, Georg Hirth, H. Kurella, H. Swoboda, Laurent, A. Hoche, C. Lombroso, P. Fürbringer, E. Carpenter, Rohleder, Alfred Fournier, A. Binet, Marro, J. J. Bachofen, J. Kohler, E. Westermarck, Max Dessoir, Alfred Blaschko, Albert Neisser, Eli Metchnikoff, Fritz Schaudinn, Ducrey, Unna, Oskar Schultze, Wilhelm Waldeyer, V. von Gyurkovechky, Louis Fiaux, Léon Taxil, Wilhelm Fliess, Willy Hellpach, P. J. Möbius, Heinrich Schurtz, B. Friedländer, Eduard von Meyer, Hans Ostwald, R. Kossmann, Otto Adler, W. Hammond, Beard, Wilhelm Erb, Paul Näcke, J. Salgó, H. T. Finck, F. Neugebauer, C. Wagner, H. Ferdy, Rosa Mayreder, Ellen Key, Helene Stöcker, Anna Pappritz, Maria Lischnewska, Lily Braun, and many others.

[815] Havelock Ellis and J. A. Symonds, “Contrary Sexual Sensibility.”

[816] Albert Moll, “Contrary Sexual Sensibility,” third edition (Berlin, 1899).

[817] J. Chevalier, “L’Inversion Sexuelle,” with a preface by A. Lacassagne (Lyons and Paris, 1893).

[818] Laupts, “Perversion et Perversité Sexuelles,” preface by Émile Zola (Paris, 1896). (Containing interesting critical, literary, and medical studies upon the subject of homosexuality.)

[819] Havelock Ellis, “Studies in the Psychology of Sex,” vol. v.: “Erotic Symbolism, etc.” (Philadelphia, 1906).

[820] Apart from “Man and Woman” (fourth edition, 1904, revised and enlarged), all Havelock Ellis’s writings on sexual questions are included in the “Studies in the Psychology of Sex,” 5 vols. (sixth concluding volume not yet completed), published by the F. A. Davis Company, of Philadelphia, U.S.A.—Translator.

[821] A. Moll, “Investigations regarding the Libido Sexualis,” Part I. (Berlin, 1897).

[822] Charles Féré, “L’Instinct Sexuel, Évolution et Dissolution” (Paris, 1899).

[823] Otto Rank, “The Artist: Contributions to Sexual Psychology” (Vienna and Leipzig, 1907).

[824] August Forel, “The Sexual Question” (Rebman, 1908).

[825] Leo Berg, “Geschlechter” (Berlin, 1906).

[826] Prior to the issue of the first edition of the present work, three volumes of Anthropophyteia had appeared, and references to many of the most important papers in these volumes have already been given in the appropriate chapters. While the sixth edition of “The Sexual Life of Our Time” was in the press, in October, 1907, the fourth volume of Anthropophyteia was issued, and constitutes an especially weighty section of this work. Among the contributions are the following: A. Mitrović, “Temporary Marriages in Northern Dalmatia”; Fr. S. Krauss, “Selective Marriages in Bosnia”; H. E. Luedecke, “Erotic Tattooing”; W. von Bülow, “The Sexual Life of the Samoans”; F. Wernert, “Tales of the German Peasantry” (of an erotic character); A. Mitrović, “A Visit to a Sorceress in Northern Dalmatia”; Krauss, Mitrović, and Wernert, “The Sense of Smell in the Sexual Life”; B. Laufer, “A Japanese Spring Picture”; O. Knapp, “The ‘ολισβος’ of the Hellenes”; A. Kind, “Coitus and the Sexual Instinct”; K. Amrain, “The Increase of Virile Potency”; H. E. Luedecke, “Eroticism and Numismatics”; V. S. Karadžić, “Erotic and Skatological Proverbs and Locutions of the Servians”; Luedecke, “Elements of Skatology”; Fr. S. Krauss, “Slavonic Popular Traditions regarding Sexual Intercourse.”