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

SEXUAL DEVIATIONnecrophilia, or the attraction for corpses, may be includedunder this head, as well as the excitement caused by animals(erotic zoophilia).2. INANIMATE OBJECTS (A) Garments: Gloves, shoes.and stockings and garters, aprons, handkerchiefs, underlinen.(B) Impersonal . Objects: Here may be includedall the various objects that may accidentally acquire thepower of exciting sexual feeling in auto-erotism. Pygmalionism(iconolagnia) or the sexual attraction of statues,mayalso be included.3. ACTS AND ATTITUDES (A). Active: Whipping,cruelty, exhibitionism, mutilation and murder. (B), Passive:Being whipped, experiencing cruelty. Personal odorsand the sound of the voice may also be included underthis head. (C).Scoptophilia or Mixoscopia or voyeurism:including objects and scenes found to be sexually stimulating;the vision of climbing, swinging, etc.; the acts ofurination and defecation (urolagnia and coprolagnia);the coitus of animals.It will be seen that there is a vast range of kind anddegree in the deviations of the sexual impulse. At one endwe find the innocent and amiable attraction which hismistress's glove or slipper may possessfor the lover anattraction which has been felt by the finest and sanestminds and at the other end the random murderous outragesof a Jack the Ripper. But we have to remember thatthere is at no point any definite frontier, and that byinsensible gradations the systematic arrangement of sexualdeviations can be seen to pass from the harmless maniato the murderous outrage. So that even when we are notbe associated with impotent senility. Otherwise it occurs either as anoccasional luxurious specialty of a few over-refined persons, or, morecommonly, as part of a general indiscriminating sexual tendency in theweak-minded. So far as it has any psychological definition, it may perhapsbest be regarded as resembling the symbolisms.