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The Sexual Life of the Child

Chapter IX · (continued 3)

Eden Paul translation

Oviducts. See Fallopian tubes

Ovulation, 24, 25, 28

Ovum, 24

Pæderasty, 199

Pædophiles, responsibility of, 231-234, 264

Peædophilia erotica, 158, 219-234, 314, 315

Pall Mall Gazette revelations, 227

Panniculus adiposus, 103

Paradoxical sexual impulse, 13

Paradoxy, sexual, 13, 117-123

Parallel bars and sexual stimulation, 159

Paralytic dementia, 220, 231

Parents, sexual element in fondness for, 71, 176

"#Parisian Landscapes," 262

Passion, amatory, and suicide, 189

Passive character of sexual act in women, 184

Pathological, the, in the sexual life over-estimated, 147, 148

Pathology, 114-145

Pelvis, sexual differences in, 33, 34

Penis, 17, 18, 26, 60

Perineum, 18 muscles of, 25

Period, monthly. See Menstruation

Periodicity in the sexual impulse, 151

Periods of infancy, childhood, and youth, 2

Peritonitis, 192

Perverse advertisements, 240-245

Perversions, sexual. See Sexual perversions

Philanthropes, the, 8

Phimosis, 307

Physical examination of child witnesses, 203

Pictures and books, erotic, 260-264

Place for the sexual enlightenment, 291-295

Plait-cutting, 210, 234

Play of animals, sexual phenomena in, 99-103

Play, sexual differences in, 38, 39, 99

Pleasure, voluptuous. See Voluptuousness

Poetry. See Verses

Pole-climbing, 159, 308

Pollution, 3 n.

Polygamy in the Old Testament, 274

Pornographica, 262-264

Potency, sexual. See Sexual potency

Potentia coeandi, 54 generandi, 54

Practices, sexual. See Sexual practices

Precept versus example, 249, 305

Precocious sexuality, 146-152

Precocity, sexual, and coeducation, 267 sexual, dangerous to others, 279 in boys, 115, 116 in girls, 114, 115

Predisposition, congenital. See Congenital predisposition

Pregnancy, precocious, 197, 225, 226

Pre-marital sexual relations, 287

Prematurity, sexual, in boys, 115, 116 in girls, 114, 115

Prepuce, 18, 50

Priapism, 171

Priests, Catholic. See Catholic priests homosexual, 209, 210

Procreation, capacity for, 54

Procurement, 227

Prognosis of sexual precocity, 162

Progressive paralysis, 220, 231

Prolapse of uterus, 180

Prostate gland, 18, 55, 56 secretion of, 20, 55, 56

Prostatic ducts, 18 secretion, 20 utricle, 18

Prostitutes, 198, 200, 225, 229, 230 male, 198, 225

Prostitution in children, 229-230

Protection of children. See Age of consent; and also Child-protection of motherhood, 323

Prurigo, 158

Pseudo-coitus, 223

Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 144

Psyches, sexual differences in, 38-45

Psychiatric causes of sexual offences against children, 219, 220

Psychiatrists. See Alienists

Psychical contagion, 279 differences between the senses, 38-45 impotence, 219 onanism, 166 n. stimuli and precocious sexuality, 161, 162

Psycho-analysis, 190, 277-279

Psychology, empirical, 9 empirical, and sex differences, 40, 41 experimental, and sex differences, 39-40 of sex, 15

Psychology, works on, 9, 10

Psychopathia, 146 sexualis. See Sexual perversions

Psychosexual development and the sexual enlightenment, 290 phenomena, early appearance of, 69, 167, 214

Puberal development, 4, 111, 112 individual variations in, 112 physical changes, 26-29

Puberty, books on, 8 ceremonial observance of, 162 defined, 3, 4 signs of, 111, 112

Pubescence, 109-112. See also Puberal development premature, 114-116 retarded, 116, 117

Pubic hair. See Hair

Punishment, corporal. See Corporal punishment

Punishments and masochism, 210, 211

Pyromania, 218

Quacks and "secret diseases," 180

Race and precocious sexuality, 149, 150

Railway-travelling and sexual stimulation, 160

Reading influenced by sexual perversions, 210

Reading-matter for children, 260-264

Reasons against the sexual enlightenment, 301-302

Redness of vulva not pathognomonic of masturbation, 166

Religiosity, 169

Religious education, 270-276

Reproductive organs. See Sexual organs

Respect for womanhood, its cultivation in boys, 323

Responsibility, criminal, in children, 206 of pædophiles, 231-234

Retardation of sexual development, 112, 113, 116, 117

Revelations of the Pall Mall Gazette, 227

Rhythm, menstrual, 24, 25

Ripening, years of, 109-112

Romantic transfiguration of object of love, 71, 72

Romanticism, 71, 72

Rose-fetichism, 140, 141

Rubbing movements, 172, 173

"Rural innocence," the table of, 152-156

Sadism, 61, 74, 124, 130-133, 136, 137, 140, 160, 210, 234-245, 316, 317, 321

Sadistic advertisements, 240-245

Satisfaction, sexual, the sense of, 23, 31, 32 in children, 59

Schlafbursch, 220. See also Night-lodger

School, the, as a field for the sexual enlightenment, 282 versus home for the sexual enlightenment, 291-297

School-doctor, the, and the sexual enlightenment, 293, 294

Schools, masturbation in, 155

Schutzalter. See Age of consent

Scrotum, 18

Season and the sexual impulse, 151

Secrecy surrounding the sexual life, 300

"Secret diseases," 180

Secretion, internal. See Internal secretion prostatic, 20 testicular, 19

Secretiveness of children regarding their sexual life, 163, 168, 169

Seduction a cause of masturbation, 52 in childhood, 157, 158, 161, 162, 180, 190, 196, 198, 199, 200, 221, 280

Segregation of the sexes, 247

Self-abuse. See Masturbation

Self-reproach, moral, in masturbators, 282, 284

Semen, 20, 55, 56, 104 constituents of, 55, 56 definition, 20

Seminal duct, common, 18 vesicles, 18 glands of, 20 their distension causes erection, 21

Seminiferous tubules, 17, 19

Senile dementia, 220

Sensation, voluptuous. See Voluptuousness

"Severe education," 241-243

Sewing-machine, 90

Sexes, coeducation of, 264-270 segregation of, 247

Sexual abstinence from tardy sexual development, 216-218 is it harmful? 303

Sexual act, enlightenment concerning, 281

Sexual differentiation in, 184

Sexual acts in children, 82, 188, 198, 199, 200, 265, 269

Sexual acts witnessed by children, 161, 162, 212, 247, 248

Sexual anæsthesia, 87, 92

Sexual assaults, false accusations by children, 227-229

Sexual characters, primary. See Sexual organs secondary, 33-49 effect of contrectation on, 103-109 tertiary, 33, 34

Sexual contrasts, 177

Sexual desire, 59 n.

Sexual development, See also Puberal development precocious, 114-116, 167, 168 in boys, 115, 116 in girls, 114, 115 retarded, 112, 113, 116, 117, 168, 216-218

Sexual differences, are they congenital or acquired? 41-45

Sexual differentiation in childhood, 33-49, 78, 79, 148, 149

Sexual dreams, 81, 94-98, 113, 178, 190 alarm at their first appearance, 213, 285 and the diagnosis of sexual perversion, 178

Sexual education, 246-324 and nakedness 256, 257 and sexual perversions, 312-321

Sexual egoism, George Meredith on, 222

Sexual enlightenment, the, 7, 8, 280-306

Sexual excess and masturbation, 181, 183

Sexual experiences and neuroses (Freud's theories), 189-191, 277-279

Sexual feelings, their strict demarcation from non-sexual feelings impossible, 176, 177

Sexual fetichism. See Fetichism, sexual

Sexual glands, their influence upon bodily development, 103-109

Sexual gratification, 59 n.

Sexual hyperæsthesia, 98, 121, 124, 284, 303

Sexual impulse, 13, 26, 29-32, 60-69, 84, 87, 117-123, 151, 270 absence of, 26, 87 components of, 29-31 development of, 84 diversion of, 270 paradoxical, 18, 117-123 periodicity in, 151 premature, or retarded. See Sexual paradoxy undifferentiated stage, 60-69, 312, 313

Sexual incidents in childhood, frequency of, 7

Sexual intercourse, age at which first possible, 198 and masturbation, resemblances and differences, 181, 182 consent to. See Age of consent illegitimate, may the doctor advise? 272 pre-marital, 287

Sexual inversion, 44

Sexual life, childish memories of, 5, 6 clinical histories of, 5, 6 experiments on, 6 literature dealing with, 7-16 observation of, 6 of the child, importance of, 179-218

Sexual morality and nakedness, 256, 257, 260 and religion, 270-276 and the sentiment of shame, 255-257 Catholicism and, 274-276

Sexual neurasthenia, 113

Sexual offences against children, 196, 205-207, 219-245

Sexual organs, differences in children and adults, 26-29 female, 23-26 male, 17-23

Sexual orgasm. See Orgasm

Sexual paradoxy, 13, 117-123

Sexual perversions, 13, 14, 61, 74, 75, 121, 123-144, 178, 184, 199, 200, 209-213, 226, 227. See also under the individual persons and choice of occupation, 209, 210 and masturbation, 184 and sexual education, 312-321 induced by pædophiles, 226, 227 literature of, 13, 14 their diagnosis by means of sexual dreams, 178

Sexual play, 174

Sexual potency, normal and abnormal, 304 testing before marriage, 304

Sexual practices, the child as an object of, 219-245

Sexual precocity, 167, 174, 195, 196, 197, 220 and sexual perversions, 209

Sexual satisfaction. See Satisfaction

Sexual topics in the Bible, 273, 274

Sexuality and altruism, 208, 209 and art, 213-215. See also Nude, the and talent, 213, 214 precocious, 146-152

Sexually perverse advertisements, 240-245

Shame, 77-79 and disgust, 250-258 in relation to sexual morality, 255-257

Shock, nervous, from love, in young children, 188, 189

"Signs of puberty," 111, 112

Sister and brother, rarity of sexual desire between, 71. See also Brother and sister

Skatophilia, 141-144, 259

Skeleton, sexual differences in, 33

Skin, diseases of, sexual differences, 47 sexual differences in, 34

Skirts, short, 255

Skull, sexual differences in, 33

Sleeping with grown persons a cause of corruption in children, 156

Smells, unpleasant, and the sentiment of disgust, 252

Social and economic reasons for the sexual enlightenment, 287, 288 dangers of masturbation, 195-201 degradation, through precocious sexuality, 197, 198 illegitimate intercourse, 287 hygiene, 248

Sociology, works on, 9

Soldiers, homosexual fondness for, 134

Song of Solomon, 274

Spasm, gastric, 181

Specialised studies of the sexual life of the child, 14-15

Spermatogonia, 19

Spermatozoa, 17, 19, 27, 53-56, 104, 108, 165 age at which first formed, 53, 54, 55

Stabbers, sexual, 235

Stains on underlinen, 165

Stammering, 47

Steadfastness and love, 208

Stimulation, excessive, and masturbation, 181, 183 local, a cause of sexual misconduct, 158-161 psychical, 161-162

Stork-stories, 170, 285

"Strict education," 241-243

Students, sexual morality of, 266

Sub-consciousness, the, 278

Subjective elements of the sexual enlightenment, 290, 291

Suburethral glands, 18, 22. See also Cowper's glands

Succession and sexual stimulation, 160

Succubi, 3

Sucking movements, 171, 172, 173

Suffrages. See Woman's suffrage

Suggestion, 190, 279. See also Hypnotism

Suicide from love in childhood, 80, 189 sexual differences in, 48

Summary of views on the sexual enlightenment, 298

Superstition regarding cure of venereal diseases, 219, 226

Symptomatology, 50-113

Syphilis, 192, 226, 283 cerebral, 220

Taint, hereditary. See Congenital predisposition

Talent and sexuality, 213, 214

Tardy sexual development, 216-218

Teachers and sexual offences against children, 232, 233

Teaching and example, 249

Testes, 17

Testicles, 17 internal secretion of, 103-109 removal of. See Castration secretion of, 19

Theatre, the, 261

Theological morality and sexual intercourse, 193

Therapy, 276-280

Thieves, 199

Thigh-friction, 164, 165, 187

Threadworms, 118, 159

Thyroid, sexual differences in, 33

Tic, 173

Tickling, 59 children's genital organs, 158, 159

Tissue, erectile, 18

Town-life and precocious sexuality, 152-156, 264

Transfiguration, romantic, of object of love, 71, 72

Treatment of sexual aberrations, 276-280

Tress-cutting, 210

Tubes, Fallopian. See Fallopian tubes

Tubules, seminiferous, 17

Tunica albuginea, 17

Underclothing, stains on, 165

Underclothing-fetichism, 122, 123, 210

Undifferentiated sexual impulse. See Sexual impulse

Unemployment, 220

United States, sexual morality in, 266, 267

Urban corruption, the fable of, 152-156

Urethra, male, 18

Urethral glands, 19, 22. See also Littré's glands meatus. See Meatus

Urethrorrhœa ex libidine, 22, 26, 56

Urticaria, 158

Uterus, 24, 28 masculinus, 18 prolapse of, 180

Utricle, prostatic, 18

Vagabonds, 199

Vagina, 24

Vaginal bulb, 23 glands, 25, 57 orifice, 23

Vanity, 77

Variability of amatory sentiments in childhood, 79, 80

Variations in the puberal development, 112

Vas deferens, 17

Vasa efferentia, 17

Venereal diseases and the sexual enlightenment, 305 in children, 191-192, 226 superstition about their cure, 219, 226 infection and the sexual enlightenment, 283, 289, 291, 293, 299, 303

Verses written by children in love, 76

Vesiculæ seminales, 18, 55

Vestibule, 235

Viraginity, 125, 126

Virile potency. See Sexual potency

Visual-memory, sexual differences in, 40

Voice, sexual differences in, 37

Voluptuous sucking, 173

Voluptuousness, 22, 23, 25, 26, 31, 32, 57-59 in children, 57-59, 88, 89 in the female, 25, 26 in the male, 23, 25 in women, its intensity, 304, 305

"Voyeur," case of, 135

Vulva, 27

Vulval glands, 25, 57

Weight, sexual differences in, 34

Wollustkörperchen, 27

Woman's movement, the, 43, 169, 322 suffrage, 195

Womb. See Uterus

Women, inculcation of respect for, 323 valuation of, 195

Wonnesaugen, 173

Wrestling, 74, 160

Youth, defined, 2

Zoology, works on, 10

Zwangsneurose, 277

INDEX OF NAMES

Abraham, Karl, 190

Adler, Otto, 26, 32

Alderi, 10

Allen, 3 n.

Ancel, 108

Arbiter (Elegantium). See Petronius

Aschaffenburg, 182

Bacqué, 8

Bartels, 35

Barthélemy, 192

Basedow, 8, 293

Bäumer, Gertrud, 268

Bell, Sanford, vi, 15, 69, 73, 74, 78, 79, 148, 151, 188, 208

Béraud, 229

Binet, 124

Bleuler, 305

Bloch, Iwan, 301

Blom. See Oker-Blom

Boerhaave, 37

Boesch, Hans, 155

Bohn, 263

Boismont, de. See de Boismont

Bouin, 108

Bourdin, 203

Brehm, 10, 99

Breschet, 115, 116

Brétonne. See Rétif

Breuer, 277

Brierre de Boismont. See de Boismont

Brill, 14

Broker, 47

Browning, Mrs., 72

Bruns, 46

Buffon, 152

Byron, 10

Campe, 8

Canova, 10

Carpenter, Edward, 226, 227

Carus, 114, 197

Casanova, 201

Chamisso, 38

Clopatt, 46

Dante, 10, 213

de Boismont, 189

de Musset, Alfred, 10

Derones, 10, 213

d'Espine, Marc, 168

Dessoir, Max, 60, 124

Dippold, 236

Dostoiewski, 233

d'Outreport, 197

Duchâtelet, Parent-, 9

Duff, Mary, 10

Eden Paul. See Paul

Ellis, Havelock, v, 15, 33, 37, 48, 78, 142, 143, 160, 165, 166, 249, 315

Englisch, 56

Eschle, 322

Esquirol, 218

Eulenburg, 46, 189

Exner, 102

Faust, 159

Fehling, 34

Fehlinger, Hans, 214, 215

Féré, 13, 81, 114, 185, 311

Ferrero, 195

Ferriani, 199, 201

Finck, 265

Flaubert, 11

Forel, 162, 200

Francillon, Marthe, 27

Francis, St., of Sales, 97

Freud, vi, 14, 91, 93, 172, 173, 190, 226, 277, 278, 279

Frisch, 56

Fuchs, 13

Fürbringer, 20, 22, 52

Gall, 108, 116

Gebhard, 115

Goethe, 10, 62, 63, 77, 213

Gousset, 275

Grimm, 261

Groos, 10, 12, 63, 99, 101, 102

Gross, Hans, 41, 204, 205

Grünstein, 208

Guttceit, 92, 164

Gutzmann Hermann, 47

Haberda, 53

Halban, 34, 107, 168

Hall, Stanley, 138, 142

Haller, 197

Hartmann, Berthold, 39

Havelock Ellis. See Ellis

Hebbel, 11, 170, 208

Heidenhain, 298

Heine, 213

Henke, 218

Henle, 55

Herodotus, 250

Hofmann, 53

Höller, K., 299

Hückstädt, 156

Hudson, 101

Hufeland, 8, 75, 159, 180, 311

Hutchinson, 37

Ibbetsson, Sir Denzil, 215

Jastrowitz, 108

Jodl, 124

Jullien, 52, 191

Kaunitz, 239

Keller, Gottfried, 12

Kerschensteiner, 42

Key, Axel, 36

Kirn, 231

Kisch, 115, 167, 168, 196

Klose, 53

Kötscher, vi, 14

Kovalevsky, 142

Krafft-Ebing, von, v, 13, 26, 117, 118, 124, 125, 126, 219

Kurella, 195

Kussmaul, 167

Lambercier, Mademoiselle, 210, 211

Lantier, 197

La Rochefoucauld, 217

Lasègue, 142

Laukhard, 153

Lehmann, Rudolf, 247

Leppmann, Fritz, 220, 232

Lichtenstein, Ulrich von, 136

Liégeois, 115

Liguori, 274

Lindner, 172

Lobsien, 40

Lombroso, 13, 195

Longfellow, 110

Löwenfeld, 189

Magnan, 221, 222

Mantegazza, 13, 52, 75, 213, 308

Marcuse, Max, 47

Marro, Martial, 229

Martin, 197

Martin, Alfred, 255

Martineau, 225

Mead, 116

Meredith, George, 222

Merzbach, George, 191

Meumann, 40

Michelet, 275

Mittelmaier, 229, 230

Möbius, 10, 45, 46

Molitor, 197

Moll, 144, 145, 151, 250, 272, 310

Momsen, P., 139

Montgomery, 197

Morrison, 48

Müller, L. R., 20

Müller, Robert, 139

Musset, de, See de Musset

Musset, Paul, 10

Näcke, 178

Napoleon I., 10

Netschajaff, 40

Neugebauer, 145

Newman, 2

Niemeyer, 8

Nyström, 272

Oker-Blom, Max, 301

Outreport, d'. See d'Outreport

Padberg, 38

Parent-Duchâtelet, 9

Paul, Eden, 115, 167, 168, 195, 196

Pélofi, 13

Penta, 159

Peterson, Viktor, 153

Petronius Arbiter, 13, 80

Pflüger, 50

Platter, Felix, 10, 131, 140

Pockels, 268

Popp, Adelheid, 220

Pougin, 270

Pouillet, 198

Preyer, 50

Ramdohr, 9

Rétif de la Brétonne, 13, 136, 153

Ribbing, 4, 150, 179

Ribot, 124

Rohleder, 172

Roland, Madame, 97

Rosenbaum, 250

Rousseau, 7, 136, 152, 210, 247, 317

Rudeck, 9, 255

Rüdin, E., 215

Salzmann, 8

Sanford Bell. See Bell

Sarganeck, 7

Scheyer, 292

Schreiber, Adele, 268

Seitz, 101, 102

Sibson, 37

Sikorsky, 253

Stanley Hall. See Hall

Stekel, 93

Stern, William, 41, 42

Stoll, Otto, 229

Strassmann, 54

Stratz, C. H., 34, 35, 36

Strodtmann, 213

Tardieu, 196, 224

Tarnowsky, Pauline, 214

Thalhofer, 8, 306

Tissot, 7, 8, 180, 183

Townsend, 165

Von Krafft-Ebing. See Krafft-Ebing

Wagner, C., 155, 156

Werthauer, 227

Weston, 123

Westphal, 13

Wittenberg, 156

X——, Jacobus, 150

Zacchias, 54

Zola, 136

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