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

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHof women; in the second place, the confusions and combinationsof dream imagery often tend to obliterate sexualdistinctions, however free from perversion the subjectmay be. It thus sometimes happens that people who areperfectly normal may have abnormal dreams, and in afew cases the erotic dreams of normal persons are habituallyabnormal without the existence of any ground forbelieving that this is due to a real or even latent deviation.It is sometimes important to bear this in mind.There seem to be, generally speaking, certain differencesin the manifestations of auto-erotism during sleepin men and women which are probably not without psychologicalsignificance. In men the phenomenon is fairlysimple; it usually appears about puberty, continues atintervals of varying duration during sexual life providedthe individual is living chastely; and is generally, thoughnot always, accompanied by erotic dreams which lead upto the climax, its occurrence being, to some extent, influencedby a variety of circumstances: physical, mental, oremotional excitement, alcohol taken before retiring, positionin bed (as lying on the back) , the state of thebladder, sometimes the mere fact of being in a strangebed, and to some extent apparently by the existence ofa fairlymonthly and yearly rhythms. On the whole, it isdefinite and regular phenomenon which usually leaveslittle conscious trace on awakening, beyond in some casesa headache. In women,a sense of fatigue and, occasionally,however, the phenomena of auto-erotism during sleepseem to be much more irregular, varied, and diffused. Itseems to be the exception for girls to experience definitelyerotic dreams about the period of puberty or adolescence.the rule in a chaste youth for the orgasm thusWhile it isto manifest itself (Hamilton found it to begin in 51 percent, between is and 15), it is the exception in a chaste