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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXfound that the human vagina woulddifferent countries,absorb a number of drugs, such as potassium iodide andsodium salicylate, rapidly,and quinine and cane sugarslowly, the presence of these substances in the urine beingdemonstrated. Loeser found mercuric chloride and iodinethe most rapidly absorbed substances. But some substancesare with difficulty absorbed, or not at all, and states ofhealth and age also affect the result, young healthy womenabsorbing most readily. It is, further, demonstrated thatthe spermatozoa also are really absorbed, and can producea ferment in the blood, apparently able to break up thetesticular proteids. This was shown in 1913 by the importantinvestigation of E. Waldstein and R. Ekler inVienna on rabbits. Later in 1921 the experiments ofDittler, in injecting semen into the blood of female rab-indicated that they were thereby rendered immunebits,of semen in coitus.The male ejaculate iscomposed of an admixture of theto the fertilizing effectssecretions of various glands: the testes, the vesiculae seminules,the prostate, and Cowper's gland. Kohlbrugge askedlong ago whether coitus iscomparable to an injection ofserum. As Arthur Thomson more precisely asked, in1922: Is any change effected in the female by the act ofinsemination apart from the specific act of fertilization?Still more definitely, are the beneficial effects on a womanof an act of coitus due, not to its functional effectivenessand resultant psychic exhilaration, but to the physicalstimulation of substances contained in the semen?The doubt in answering that questionis due to thedifficulty of separating the psychic results from the possiblephysical results. Zoth and Pregl found reason, as farback as 1896, working with the ergograph and makingcontrol observations with glycerine to eliminate the influenceof suggestion, to conclude that orchitic extract ex-