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GLOSSARYErogenic or Erotogenic zones. Regions of the bodywhich, habitually or occasionally, prove sexually excitable.Erotic symbolism. A deviation by which some object oridea normally on the verge or outside of the sexualprocess becomes its chief focus.Exhibitionism. The impulse to expose a part of thebody, especially the genital region, with some consciousor unconscious sexual motive.Fellatio. Apposition of the mouth to the male genitalorgans.Fetich. Some object to which a special sexually excitinginfluence is attached.Frottage. Sexual pleasure derived from rubbing againstsome part of the body of another person.Gamete. The reproductivecell.Gonad. The relatively undifferentiated reproductivecell.Heterosexual. The normal sexual attachment to a personof opposite sex.Homogenic. A substitute for the term Homosexual proposedby Edward Carpenter.Homosexual. The general term for sexual attraction toa person of the same sex.Hormones. The internal secretions of the ductlessglands which act as "chemical messengers."Hyphedonia. A little-used term for relative sexual frigidity.Karezza. See Coitus reservatus.Kleptolagnia. The association of sexual excitement withthe act of theft.Libido. The term selected by Freud to indicate the energyof the sexual impulse manifesting itself in variousforms, and subsequently used by some authors to covervital energy in general without special reference to thesexual impulse.Masochism. Sexual pleasure experienced in being hurt,humiliated, or dominated.Metatropism. A term proposed by Hirschfeld for a re-[368]