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

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHMasturbation may also be exercised by applying frictionor other stimulation to out-lying erogenous zones, asbyflagellation or urtication of the nates, or rubbing thebreasts and nipples. Almost every part of the body mayindeed, in exceptional cases, become erogenous and bemanipulated for the sake of the voluptuous sensationsaroused.There is yet another class of auto-erotic cases in whichsexual excitement occurs spontaneously when the thoughtsare turned to voluptuous subjects, or even non-voluptuoussubjects of an emotional nature, or when sexual excitementis deliberately aroused (Hammond's "psychiccoitus") by directing the imagination on the act of sexualintercourse with an attractive person of the opposite sex.These auto-erotic manifestations merge into the eroticday-dreaming which has already been considered. Dr.Davis found that reading books that suggest sexualthought isa most frequent cause of masturbation, spooningto a much smaller extent, and dancingstill less.If we proceed to investigate precisely the exact extent,degree, and significance of the auto-erotic phenomena o.fwhich masturbation is the type, we are met by manydifficultiesand considerable differences of opinion.With regard to their occurrence among males, the balanceof reliable opinion is in favor of masturbation havingbeen practiced at some time in life though in many casesvery rarely or for a very brief periodby over 90 percent, individuals. Thus in England, Dukes, the experiencedphysician to Rugby school, states that from 90to 95 per cent, of all boys at boarding-school masturbate.In Germany, Julian Marcuse, on the basis of hisexperience, concludes that ninety-two per cent, male individualshave masturbated in youth, and Rohleder putsthe proportion somewhat higher. In America Seerly found