Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...examination of the genital tract. It seems proper, therefore, to present a brief summary of the chief varieties, and to give at least a resume of the general principles which should apply in dealing with these patients. The works of Krafft-Ebing and Schrenck-Notzing have been used freely in the preparation of this chapter. An accurate and entirely scientific classification of these phenomena is at present impossible, but a provisional one may be employed, which will aid in the systematic study of the subject. Nearly all the known varieties of sexual perversion will fall under one or other of the following headings: A. Sexual Hyperesthesia. 1. Onanism, j Satyriasis. '( Nymphomania. B. Sexual Anesthesia. Impotence. (See Chapter XIX.) C. Sexual Paresthesia. 1. Heterosexual perversion--algolagnia. Perverse activity of the sexual impulse. 2. Inversion of the sexual feeling (contrary sexual feeling; homosex uality, etc.). SEXUAL HYPERESTHESIA When not dependent on affections of the cord or on cerebral disease, this is usually associated with hyperaesthesia of the deep urethra. This in its turn may be caused by masturbation when practised in great excess, by urethral stricture, by chronic infection, by sexual intemperance (which term should include both excessive intercourse and prolonged sexual excitement without relief, and by departure from the normal or physiological in the performance of the act of copulation (as, for example, the practice of withdrawal for the prevention of conception). Certain drugs produce it, cantharides being the best known. Onanism is the common expression of sexual hyperaesthesia, a majority of males having at some time in their lives practised it. Its alleged consequences are used by quacks to foster the miseries of...
