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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXdeclared that he had never known celibate menPagetwho had not such emissions from once or twice a weekto every three months, both extremes being within thelimits of good health, while Brunton regarded once afortnight or once a month as about the usual frequency,at these periodsthe emissions often following two nightsin succession, and Rohleder stated that they may normallyoccur for several nights in succession. Hammond consideredalso that they occur about once a fortnight. This wasalso found the most usual frequency among over two thousandMoscow students investigated by Tchlenoff. Ribbingregarded ten to fourteen days as the normal interval, andHamilton found from a week to a fortnight the most frequentinterval (19 per cent, cases) . Lowenfeld put thenormal frequency at about once a week; this seems nearthe truth as regards many fairly healthy young men andit corresponds with the exact records of several healthyyoung adults which I have obtained. It occasionally happens,however, that nocturnal emissions are entirely a"bsent(TchlenofFs investigations seem to show their absencein about ten per cent, but Hamilton in only 2 percent.) In other . fairly healthy young men they seldomoccur except at times of intellectual activity or of anxietyand worry.Nocturnal emissions are usually, though not invariably,accompanied by dreams of a voluptuous character inwhich the dreamer becomes conscious in a more or lessfantastic manner of the more or less intimate presence orcontact of a person of usually the opposite sex. It wouldseem, as a general rule, that the more vivid and voluptuousthe dream, the greateris the physical excitement andthe greater also the relief experienced on awakening.Sometimes the erotic dream occurs without any emission,and not infrequently the emission takes place after theC4]