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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXwomen. It was already known that the invert is affected bysuch considerations as these. Thus one of my subjects wholeads a healthy and active life, is masculine in habits,represses his homosexual desires, and would like to marryand have a son, made various fruitless attempts at coitus.Later at Malta at a public dance, he met an Italian girlwho invited him to her home: "She had a very slim boyishfigure and a boyish face and hardly any breasts. I went toher flatby appointment and found her dressed in a man'spyjamas. I felt decidedly attracted, but even then wasunable to play the man's part. I came away, however,without the usual feeling of repulsion and on returningthe next night the result to my great delight was satisfactory.I went on several occasions before leaving Malta,but although attracted by this girl I never really enjoyedthe act and as soon as it was over had a desire to turn myback. Since then I have had intercourse with about adozen girls.But it isalways an effort and leaves a feelingof repulsion. I have come to the conclusion that for menormal sexual intercourse isonly an expensive and dangerousform of masturbation." But that is the best thatpsycho-therapeutics can generally hope to achieve.It must be added that all these methods, even in so faras they can be said to attain success at all, when appliedto deeply rooted cases of inversion, at best, for the mostpart, lead to a condition of bi-sexual attraction, by whichthe patientis enabled to find gratification with persons ofeither sex. This artificial shifting or looseninganchorage of the sexual impulseof theis not favorable to stabilityof character nor to any high morality. Nor is italtogether a matter of congratulation to render an invertcapable of procreation. The offspring of an invert unitedto a sound partner have, indeed, a fair chance of turningout satisfactorily, but the risks are too serious to enable[348]