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

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHOn the psychic sidethe most frequent and the mostcharacteristic result of persistent and excessive masturbationseems tobe a morbid heightening of self-consciousnesswithout any coordinated heightening of self-esteem.a desirable andThe man or woman who is kissed bydesired person of the opposite sex feels a satisfying senseof pride and elation, which must always be absent fromthe manifestations of auto-erotic activity. This must be so,even apart from the masturbator's consciousness of thegeneral social attitude toward his practices and his dreadof detection, for that may also exist as regards normalcoitus without any corresponding psychic effect. The masturbator,if his practice is habitual, is thus compelled tocultivate an artificial consciousness of self-esteem, and mayshow a tendency to mental arrogance. Self-righteousnessand religiosity constitute, as it were, a protection againstthe tendency to remorse. A morbid mental soil is, ofcourse, requiredfor the full developmentof these characteristics.The habitual male masturbator, it must beremembered, is often a shy and solitary person; individualsof this temperament are especially predisposed toexcesses in all the manifestations of auto-erotism, whilethe yielding to such tendencies increases the reserve andthe horror of society, at the same time producing a certainsuspicion of others. In some extreme cases there nois,doubt, as Kraepelin believed, some decrease of psychiccapacity, an inability to grasp and coordinate externalimpressions, weakness of memory, deadening of emotions,or else the general phenomena of increased irritability,leading on to neurasthenia.adolescence inIn either sex auto-erotic excesses duringwhatever absenceyoung men and women of intelligenceof gross injury there may be still often encourage a