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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXpart of the kiss; the olfactory kiss, however, or smell-kiss,has a much wider distribution over the world than theEuropean (or Mediterranean) tactile kiss; it reaches itsmost complete development among peoples of Mongolianrace.While the kiss may be regarded as the typical andnormal erogenic method of contrectation for the end ofattaining tumescence, there are others only less important.Any orificial contact between persons of opposite sexis sometimes almost equally as effective as the kiss instimulating tumescence; all such contacts, indeed, belongto the group of which the kiss is the type. Cunnilinctus(often incorrectly termed cunnilingus) and fellatio cannotbe regarded as unnatural for they have their prototypicforms among animals, and they are found amongvarious savage races. As forms of contrectation and aidsto "tumescence they are thus natural and are sometimesregarded by both sexes as quintessential forms of sexualpleasure, though they may not be considered esthetic.They become deviations, however, and thus liable to betermed "perversions," when they replace the desire forcoitus.The nipples constitute yet another orificial frontierregion which is a highly important tactile sexual focus.The breasts have a special significance among the sexualcenters since they primarily exist, not for the lover, butfor the child. This is doubtless, indeed, a fundamentalfact on which other erogenic contacts have grown up.The sexual sensitivity of lovers to the lips has been developedfrom the sensitivity of the infant's lips to contactwith his mother's nipple.As the secreting organs of milk, it is essential that theconnection between the sexual organs and the breastsshould be intimate, so that the breasts may be in a con-[48]