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SEXUAL DEVIATIONlence. From the standpoint of the conception of eroticsymbolism I have adopted there is no need for this term.There is here no hybrid combination of two unlike mentalstates. We are simply concerned with states of eroticsymbolism, more or less complete, more or less complex.The conception of exhibitionism as a process of eroticsymbolism involves a conscious or unconscious attitude ofattention in the exhibitionist's mind to the psychic reactionof the woman toward whom his displayisdirected.He seeks to cause an emotion which, probably in mostcases, he desires should be pleasurable. But from one causeor another his finer sensibilities are inhibited or in abeyance,and he is unable to estimate accurately either theimpression he is likely to produce or the general resultsof his action, or else he is moved by a strong impulsiveobsession which overpowers his judgment. In many caseshe has good reason for believing that his act will be pleasurablerather than the reverse, and frequently finds complacentwitnesses among low-class servant girls, etc.But the exhibitionist usually wishes to produce morethan a mere titillated amusement; he seeks a powerfuleffect which must be emotional whether or not it is pleasurable.There is sometimes an evident effort on the partof a weak, vain, and effeminate man to produce a maximumof emotional effect. The attempt to heighten theemotional shock is also seen in the fact that the exhibitionistmay choose a church as the scene of his exploits, notduring service, for he always avoids a concourse of people,but perhaps towards evening when there are only a fewkneeling women scattered through the edifice. The churchis chosen, from no impulse to commit a sacrilegious outragewhich, as a rule, the exhibitionist does not feel hisact to be but because it really presents the conditionsmost favorable to the act and the effects desired, "just