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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXwould indeed recognize two factors as presentin all thesecases: (i)an endogenous and neurotic, and (s>)an exogenousfactor which is usually fetichistic. It is never theface that excites the exhibitionist but, much more usually,the legs,which iswhy, Hirschfeld believes, the spectacleof children and schoolgirls so often induces these acts, asthey are most likely to display naked legs.The reaction aroused by the act may fallinto one ofthree groups: (i) the girlisfrightened and runs away;(2) she isindignant and abuses the culprit; (3) she isthe last re-pleased or amused, and laughs or smiles. It isaction which affords the exhibitionist most satisfaction.cases in which sexual gratificationisIt seems probable that a form of erotic symbolism somewhatsimilar to exhibitionism is to be found in the rarederived from throwingink, acid, or other defiling liquids on women's whitedresses. Moll, Thoinot, Hirschfeld, and others have recordedcases of this kind. Thoinot considers that in thesecases the fleck is the fetich. That is an incorrect accountof the matter. The white garments in most cases probablyconstitute the primary fetich, but that fetich becomesmore acutely realized, and at the same time both partiesare thrown into an emotional state which to the fetichistbecomes a mimicry of coitus, by the act of defilement. Wemay perhaps connect with this phenomenonthe attractionwhich muddy shoes often exert over the shoe fetichist.Restif de la Bretonne associated his love of neatness inwomen with his attraction to the feet, the part, he remarks,least easy to keep clean.Gamier applied the term sadi-fetichism to active flagellationand many similar manifestations such as we arehere concerned with, on the ground that they are hybridswhich combine the morbid adoration for a definite objectwith the impulse to exercise a more or less degree of vio-