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PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXas the average age of the perpetrator increases. So long asthe physicalstate is fairly sound and the mental statefairly intact, such impulses,when they occur, are doubtlesseasily restrained, and we are not called upon to regardtake in the fresh-as morbid the pleasure which the agedness of the young. But with physical irritation, such asmay arise from an enlarged prostate, and with psychic lossof control from incipient mental decay, there is risk thatthe barriers may be removed, and the man become adanger to himself and to others. It is in this way sometimesthat senile dementia begins to declare itself before intellectualfailure is obvious.It was formerly thought (as by Krafft-Ebing and Lepp^mann) that offenses against children occur in old menmentally sound as a simple result of "satiety" in normalsexual relationships, but this is doubtful. Hirschfeld in hiswide experience has never seen a child violator who wasmentally sound. There should certainly always be a carefulpsychiatric investigation.BIBLIOGRAPHYKRAFFT-EBING, Psychopathia Sexualis.THOINOT & WEYSSE, Medico-Legal Aspects of MoralOffenses.The Social Attitude TowardsSexual Deviations,"The pathology of love is a Hell of which the gate mustde Gourmont in hisnever be opened," said RemyPhysique de I'Amour. That melodramatic declarationcould only have been made by a philosopher of love,however admirable on his own lines, who was withoutscientific training, and it is surprising to find it endorsedby a gynecologist like Van de Velde. It is a great thing,