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

SEXUAL DEVIATIONhabits. He succeeded, but then began erotic dreams accompaniedby images of animals, and these led to masturbationassociated with ideas of a similar kind. At the sametime he had no wish for any sort of intimate intercoursewith animals, and was indifferent as to the sex of theanimals which attracted him; his sexual ideas were normal.Such a case seems to be one of fetichism on a tactilebasis, and thus forms a transition between the stuff-fetichismsand the complete perversiontowards animals.of sexual attractionKrafft-Ebing considered that this is radically distinctfrom erotic zoophilia. This view cannot be accepted. Bestialityand zooerastia merely present in a more markedand profoundly perverted form a further degree of thesame phenomenon which we meet with in erotic zoophilia;the difference is that they occur either in more insensitiveor in more markedly psychopathic persons. It is, however,somewhat doubtful whether we can always or even usuallydistinguish between zooerastia and bestiality, for it seemsprobable that in most cases of ordinary bestiality someslight traces of mental anomaly might be found, if suchcases always were, as they should be, properly investigated.As Moll remarks, it is often hardly possible to draw asharp line between vice and disease.We here reach the grossest and most frequent perversionin the group: bestiality or the impulse to attainsexual gratification by intercourse, or other close contact,with animals. In seeking to comprehendthis deviation itis necessary to divest ourselves of the attitude toward animalswhich is the inevitable outcome of refined civilizationand urban life. Most sexual deviations, if not in largemeasure the actual outcome of civilized life, easily adjustthemselves to it.Bestiality (except in one form to benoted later) is, on the other hand, the sexual anomaly of