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

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHdreamer has awakened. Occasionally the approachingorgasm is repressed in the half waking state; this is termedby Nacke pollutio interruptsA wide and comprehensive investigation of eroticdreams was carried out by Gualino, in northern Italy,based on inquiries among 100 normal men doctors,teachers, lawyers, etc. who had all had experience ofthe phenomena. Gualino shows that erotic dreams, withemissions (whether or not seminal) begin somewhatearlier than the period of physical development as ascertainedby Marro for youths of the same part of northernItaly. Gualino found that all his cases had had eroticdreams at the age of seventeen; Marro found 8 percent, of youths still sexually undeveloped at that age,and while sexual development began at thirteen years,erotic dreams began at twelve. Their appearance was preceded,in most cases for some months, by erections. In 37per cent, of the cases there had been no actual sexualexperiences (either masturbation or intercourse) ; in 23per cent, there had been masturbation; in the rest, someform of sexual contact. The dreams are mainly visual,tactual elements coming second, and the dramatis personais usually either an unknown woman (27 per cent, cases) ,or one only known by sight (56 per cent.), and in themajority is, at all events in the beginning, an ugly orfantastic figure, becoming more attractive later in life,but never identical with the woman loved during wakinglife. This, as Gualino, Lowenfeld, and others have pointedout, accords with the general tendency for the emotionsof the day to be latent in sleep.The emotional state in thepubertal stage, apart from pleasure, was anxiety (37 percent.) desire , (17 per cent.),fear (14 per cent.). In theadult stage, anxiety and fear receded to 7 per cent, and 6per cent, respectively. Thirty-three of die subjects, as a["5]