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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUrolagnia and CoprolagniaThe most usual erotic symbolismsin childhood arethose o the scatologic group, the significance of which hasoften been emphasized by Freud and others. The channelsof urination and defecation are so close to the sexualcenters that the intimate connection, physical and psychic,between the two groups is easily understood. Urinationand defecation are processes which in any case could notfail to interest the youthful mind, for they gratify thechildish impulse to make things, and are thus a rudimentaryform of the artistic impulse,at the same time amanifestation of power. Hamilton found that 2 1per cent,cent, of his married womenof his married men and 16 perhad in childhood had fecal and urinary interests, andscatological fancies or play. These functions also appearto absorb something of the nervous energy which latergoes into the sexual channel; in young girls,and occasionallyin women, when tumescence has occurred, detumescencemay take the form of a spasmodic and involuntaryemission of urine. There isprobably a connection betweennocturnal enuresis and sexual activity, sometimesmasturbation. Freud believes that retention of the contentsof the bowels for the sake of pleasurablesexual sensationsmay occur in childhood; and it is certain that evenin later life the contents of the bladder are sometimes retainedfor the same reason.Children not unusually believethat the sexual acts of their elders have some connectionwith urination or defecation, and the mysterywith which the excretory acts are surrounded helps tosupport this theory. An interest in these functions is notuncommonly prolonged beyond the age of puberty, especiallyin girls, but it tends to die out, sometimes with afeeling of shame at the attention bestowed on it, as the[162]