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

women were corpses;PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXthe sadistic ideas were incidents inthe emotional evolution, the object throughout being notto inflict cruelty but to procure strong emotion; any mutilationis carried out in order to increase the emotionalexcitement. Such cases are highly abnormal.BIBLIOGRAPHYKRAFFT-EBING, Psychopathia Sexualis.HAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol.Ill, "Love and Pain."STANLEY HALL, "A Study of Fears," American Journal ofPsychology, 1897 and 1899.W. A. F. BROWNE, "Necrophilism," Journal of MentalScience, Jan. 1875.FREUD, "The Economic Problem in Masochism," CollectedPapers, Vol. II and "Instincts and their Vicissitudes,"ib.j Vol. IV.Sexual SenilityThere Is a frequent well marked tendency in women toan eruption at the menopause of sexual desire, the lastflaring up of a dying fire, which may easily take on amorbid form.Similarly in men when the approach of age begins tobe felt the sexual impulse may become suddenly urgent.In this instinctive reaction it may tend to roam, normallyor abnormally, beyond legitimate bounds. This tendencyis by no means confined to men who have been lovers ofwomen in youth; it is sometimes most conspicuous inthose men who in earlier life have been severely restrainedby moral considerations and now act from a sort of subconsciousimpulse to make upfor lost time before it istoo late. It is the experience of most women that sexualattempts on them in early life the most daring and, itmust be added, often the most successful attempts have[2101