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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXhave in youth sought secret opportunities of watchingestimable womenwomen in their bedrooms and manylooked through the keyholes of men's bedrooms, thoughthey would not like to acknowledgethis. It is indeed acommon habit for landladies and servant-girls to fix theireyes at the keyholes of rooms where are couples whomwho cultivate thisthey suspect may be lovers. The personsmixoscopia recklessly are commonly termed "peepers."These manifestations have sometimes attracted the attentionof the police, notably in Paris, and women I knowhave detected men watching them through the skylightat the back of public conveniences in the TuileriesGardens.In another form we have the sexual attraction of pictures,not necessarily lascivious in character, of eroticscenes, and the sexual attraction of statues. This is on theone hand the psychologicalsource of what is commonlycalled pornography (incorrectly since it has no specialconnection with brothels) and on the other hand of thesexual deviation known as Pygmalionism from the classicstory of Pygmalion falling in love with the statue he hadhimself made. While the interest in erotic scenes and inerotic picturesis natural and normal, when it does notbecome an absorbing passion, Pygmalionismis morbidbecause the adored objectis an end in itself. Pygmalionismhas chiefly been observed in men, but Hirschfeldmentions a lady, moving in the best social circles, who wasobserved in a museum lifting the fig-leaffrom classicstatues, and covering the place beneath with kisses. Theerotic attraction of picturesis now mainly manifested, andon the widest scale, through the cinema, the influencebeing the more powerful because of the moving and lifelikenature of the pictures presented. Very many people,especially young women, go evening after evening to the[74]