Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHBut as soon as any restraint is imposed gratification inthe dischargesis certain to be felt and the pleasurable sensitivityof the anus is liable to become developed;it isoften in later years an erogenic zone, though not so oftenor so profoundly as the oral region in the adult. It is heldby some psycho-analysts that at an early age there is insome subjects a tendency to retain the feces with apleasure aim, and that such a tendency is significant forlater psychic development; this, however, has been deniedthe discharge itself,by others as not easy to prove. Much the same may besaid of the urinary discharge, though here the pleasure,alike in the infant and the adults, is more exclusively inand some observers note that the infantmay find pleasure in bestowing this discharge on aspecially preferred person, though it is quite likely thatthis is often a misinterpretation of the facts, and that thedischarge of urine in the infant under the influence ofpleasurable emotion may be no more intentional than itis in the adult woman in whom it occasionally occurs byreflex action, and to her great vexation, during the sexualorgasm. Hamilton remarks that 21 per cent, men and16 per cent, women admit being interested in urine orplaying with it in early life, and exactly the same percentageas regards feces.On the psychic side there is even less doubt of theliability of children to experience emotions which mayfairly be called sexual than there is on the physical side.Many years ago Sanford Bell showed, on a collective basis,the frequency of these manifestations, which al 1have hadoccasions to observe sometimes. His report mayread with profit.He had studied the question for fifteenyears, both in and out of schools, and personally observed800 cases, while he had obtained records of 1,700 otherstill becases (thus 2,500 in all)from 360 other observers of