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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXtimes emphasized the sexual organs. In some parts of theworld, also, the artificial enlargement of the female sexualorgans (labia majora and minora and clitoris) is practiced,and thus enlarged they are considered an importantattraction.Any insistence on the naked sexual organs as objects ofattraction is, however, usually confined to peoples in a lowstate of culture, though it may be noted that in Japaneseerotic pictures the sexual organs of both sexes are oftenexaggerated. Much more widespread is the attempt tobeautify and to disguise the sexual organs by tattooing,by adornment, and by striking peculiarities of clothing.The tendency for beauty of clothing to be accepted as asubstitute for beauty of body appears early in the historyof mankind, and, as we know, tends to be absolutely acceptedin civilization. Hence our realities and our traditionalideals are sometimes hopelessly at variance. Ourartists are themselves equally ignorant and confused, and,asallStratz repeatedly showed, they constantly reproduce ininnocence the deformations and pathological charactersof defective models.One of the main primitive purposes of adornment andclothing among savages, however, is not to conceal thebut to draw attention to it and to render it morebody,attractive. With this we have to recognize the magicalinfluence of both adornment and mutilation as a methodo guarding and insulating dangerous bodily functions.The two motives are largely woven together. The sexualorgans begin to become sacred, indeed, and the sexualfunctions to take on a religious character, at an earlyperiodin culture. Generation,the reproductiveforce inNature, was realized by primitive man to be a conceptionof the firstmagnitude, and among its chief symbols heexalted the sexual organs which thus attained to a solem-[66]