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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXin real life. It is, of course, fostered by sexual abstinence.Most usually there is little attempt to realize it. It doesnot necessarily lead to masturbation, thoughit sometimescauses some sexual congestion or even spontaneous sexualorgasm.The day-dreamis a strictly private and intimate experience,not only from its very nature, but also becauseit occurs in images which the subject finds great difficultyin translating into language, even when willing to do so.In other cases it is elaborately dramatic or romantic incharacter, die hero or heroine passing through manyexperiences before attaining the erotic climax of the story.This climax tends to develop in harmony with the subject'sgrowing knowledge or experience; at first merely akiss, it may develop into any refinement of voluptuousThe gratification. day-dream may occur alike in normaland abnormal persons. Rousseau, in his Confessions, describessuch dreams, in his case combined with masochismand masturbation. Raffalovich refers to the process bywhich in sexual inverts the vision of a person of the samesex, perhaps seen in the street or the theater, is evoked insolitary reveries, producing a kind of "psychic onamsm,"whether or not it leads on to physical manifestations.Although day-dreaming of this kind has until recenttimes been little studied, since it loves secrecy and solitude,and has seldom been counted of sufficient interest forscientific it isinquisition, really a process ^ f considerableimportance, and occupies a large part of the auto-eroticfield. It is frequently cultivated by refined and imaginativeyoung men and women who lead a chaste life andwould often be repelled by masturbation. In such persons,under such .circumstances, it must be considered as strictlynormal, the inevitable outcome of the play of the sexualimpulse. No doubt itmay often become morbid, and is[no]