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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXmale fondled the female with his trunk, and then, standingside by side, they crossed trunks, putting the tips ineach other's mouths. Human beings are impelled toanalogous acts. For many people, especiallywomen whohave not become habituated to complete intercourse, closetactile contacts furnish in themselves adequate sexualpleasure and satisfaction.The tactile element is indeed specially prominent inthe emotional life, and notably the sexual life, of women.Lillian Martin, investigating the esthetic sentiment inwoman students, observed the prominence of emotions oftactile foundation. Pearce Clark described the case of anepileptic girl of nine who only cared for people whosetouch she liked, and classified her acquaintances by herreaction to their handshakes or kiss. The sexual awakeningof girls at puberty shows itself in a desire for kissesand caresses rather than for intercourse. Sadger remarksthat "the halo of chastity surrounding so many younggirls rests on the absence of the genital impulse combinedwith strong eroticism in the skin, the mucus membranes,and the muscular system." This trait is frequently pronouncedin women not only at the beginning of thesexual life but throughout, and even to the climax ofdetumescence. "With all her straining, her wrestling, andstriving to break from the clasp of his arms/' we read inan erotic novel of the eighteenth century, "it was visibleshe aimed at nothing more than multiplying points oftouch with him." It was a woman poet, Rene Vivien,who wrote that "the strange and complex art of touchequals the dream of perfumesand the miracle of sound."The instinctive recognition by women of the importanceof touch in love is additional evidence of the fact thattouch is really the primary and primitiveerotic sense.The morbid hyper-esthetic anomalies on a tactile[4*]