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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXand ejaculation may be produced in the act of touchingor cutting off the hair, which issubsequently, in manycases, used for masturbation. As a rule the hair-despoileris a pure fetichist, no element of sadistic pleasure enteringinto his feelings.The stuff-fetiches are most usually fur and velvet; feathers,silk, and leather also sometimes exerting this influence;they are all, it will be noted, animal substances.The most interestingisprobably fur, the attraction ofwhich is not uncommon in association with passive algolagnia.As Stanley Hall showed, the fear of fur, as wellas the love of it, is by no means uncommon in childhood;it may appear in infancy and in children who have nevercome in contact with animals. It is noteworthy that inmost cases of uncomplicated stuff-fetichism the attractionapparently arises on a congenital basis, as it appears inpersonsof nervous or sensitive temperament at an earlyage and without being attached to any definite or causativeincident. The sexual excitation is nearly always producedby touch rather than by sight. If the specific sexualsensations may be regarded as a special modification oticklishness, the erotic symbolisjn in the case of these stufffetichismswould seem to be a more or less congenitaldeviation of ticklishness in relation to specificanimal contacts.A further degree of deviation in this direction isreached in erotic zoophilia, as exemplified in a case recordedby Krafft-Ebing. In this case a congenital neuropath,of good intelligence but delicate and anemic, withfeeble sexual powers, had a great love of domestic animals*especially dogs and cats, from an early age; when pettingthem he experienced sexual emotions, although he wasinnocent in sexual matters. At puberty he realized thenature of his feelings and tried to break himself of his