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PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXthe precise relationship of early constipationto adultpsychic traits.After childhood coprolagniais not usually associatedwith urolagnia, although the association may be found inslight forms. The extreme forms of coprolagnia are inmen, but urolagnia, while more frequent in both sexes,is specially frequent, though often only in a slight degree,in women. It is doubtless encouraged by the close andobvious connection of the urinary function with thesexual organ, as well as by actual nerve connections.and women will sometimes seek to rival theYoung girlsattitude of the other sex in urination, a rivalry possiblefor many who are still young and have not borne children,as maternity enfeebles the expulsive muscular force.There is no necessary homosexual tendency here involved.Considerable importance has sometimes been attachedto what Sadger has termed "urethral erotism," or urinaryerotism, using the term widely, to cover not only theurethra and the urine, but the whole peripheral urinaryapparatus from the bladder to the urethral orifice. It isclaimed that this kind of erotism in early life may presentthe type of the later sexual life when by what may seema natural transition erotism is transferred to the morestrictly sexual sphere and its secretion; and, correspondingly,urinary irregularities may become seminal irregularities.It has further been argued that such urethralerotism may extend to the highest psychic sphere, since itis in regulation of the urinary as well as bowel functionsthat duty first appears to the infant.A tendency for bed-wetting to be associated with sexualityhas long been noted. Enuresis and urethral erotismhave by Freud and some other psycho-analysts been associatedwith psychic traits of ambition and aggressiveness.This supposition may have started in the fact that a special