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SEXUAL DEVIATIONoccurring especially in women with repressed emotionsdue to the impotency of their husbands. Stekel putit forwardas an explanation of all kleptomania, an explanationwhich falls if we dismiss the entity of "kleptomania."Another distinct combination of theft with sexualemotion has been described and clearly demonstrated byHealy. These cases occur in youths as well as girls whoare led into sexual temptations which appear so abhorrentand wicked to them that they yield to what seems the lessabhorrent temptation to steal. The mental process here isthe reverse of that found in kleptolagnia, for the theft isnot a real or symbolic gratification of sexual desire,an escape from it.BIBLIOGRAPHYHAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies inVII, "Kleptolagnia/'HEALY, Mental Conflicts and Misconduct.STEKEL, Peculiarities of Behaviour.butthe Psychology of Sex, Vol.ExhibitionismAnother symbolistic manifestation of the sexual impulse,serious in adult life, may occur innocently, and notabnormally, in childhood. This is exhibitionism. Severalwriters have pointed out that at puberty, and even inadolescence, an impulse of ostentation extending to thedeveloping organsof sex (ingirls more especiallyto thebreasts) is not uncommon. It is a common infantiletendency which seems perfectly natural. Freud refers tothe exhilaration even very young children experience innakedness; they love to dance about naked before goingto bed, often raising their little garments, even beforestrangers, a reminiscence, as Freud views it, of a lost Paradisiacalstate, to become later in exhibitionists a morbid