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

SEXUAL DEVIATIONwhom he exposes himself; he seldom speaks, he makes noeffort to approach her; as a rule, he fails even to displaythe signs of sexual excitation. He seldom masturbates; hisdesires are completely gratified by the act of exhibitionand by the emotional reaction he supposes that it arousesin the woman. He departs satisfied and relieved.Various classifications of exhibitionism have been putforward; thus Maeder recognized three forms: (i) theinfantile, to gaze and to be gazed at being normal in childhood;(2) the senile, which is a method of sexual excitementin the impotent; and (3) exhibitionism as a methodof sexual invitation, which may occur in fairly normal personsof defective virility. This classification may not becomplete, but it rightly insists on the element of sexualweakness, which is significant in exhibitionism, and onthe fact that the aberration has a normal basis in the commonactions of childhood. Krafft-Ebing divided exhibitionistsinto four clinical groups: (i) acquired states ofmental weakness with cerebral or spinal disease cloudingconsciousness and at the same time causing impotence;(2) epileptics in whom the act is an abnormal organic impulseperformed in a state of imperfect consciousness;(3) a somewhat allied group of neurasthenic cases; (4)periodical impulsive cases with deep hereditary taint. Thisclassification is not altogether satisfactory. Norwood Eastfor practical purposes divided exhibitionists into two maingroups: the psychopathic (about two-thirds of the wholewith "visionaries" and mental defectives predominating) ,and the depraved (who have a vicious motive and includethe remaining one-third) Most cases fall into one or other.of two mixed groups (i) cases in which there is more orless congenital abnormality, but otherwise a fair or evencomplete degree of mental integrity; they are usuallyyoung adults, they are more or less conscious of the end[187]