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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXshock, constraint, subjection, humiliation, and allied psychicstates; for all these states involve recourse to a greatreservoir of primitiveemotion which may be utilized toreinforce the sexual impulse. It is in this way that flagellationwhether inflicted, suffered, witnessed or thoughtabout may in some predisposed persons act as a sexualstimulant from almost the earliest age. In most cases bothphysical and psychic elements enter into the influence,and an important and extensive group of algolagnic casesis thus formed. In other cases the mere spectacle of variousevents which produce an emotional shock such as anearthquake, or a bull-fight, or even the death and funeralof relations act erotically apart from any definite sadisticor masochistic attitude in the subject of the emotions.Looked at broadly, the sphere of algolagnia is thus verylarge. There are, moreover, certain groups of cases whichlie on its frontier though they may perhaps more accuratelybe classed with erotic fetichism. Gamier attemptedto set up a group of "sadi-fetichistic" cases; but a casewhich he brought forward scarcely seems to prove thecontention for it belongs to the class of foot-fetichism.Abraham, while admitting diminished sexual activity,thought this need not be primary, but sometimes due tosuppression or paralysis of an originally strong libido. Hereferred to the suggestion of Freud that osphresiolagniaand coprolagnia may sometimes play a part in the genesisof foot fetichism, these elements later receding as unesthetic,the visual pleasure remaining.An occasional combination of algolagnia and fetichismis termed corset-fetichism. Here the corset is a kind offetich, but its attraction is associated with pressure sensationsand the attraction of fetters. Karl Abraham elaboratedthe rather complex case of a male student of 22 whofoot-fetichism and corset-fetichism and the at-presented