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[197] A. Poulet, Traité des Corps étrangers en Chirurgie, 1879. English translation, 1881, vol. ii, pp. 209, 230. Rohleder (Die Masturbation, 1899, pp. 24–31) also gives examples of strange objects found in the sexual organs.

[198] E. H. Smith, "Signs of Masturbation in the Female," Pacific Medical Journal, February, 1903, quoted by R. W. Taylor, Practical Treatise on Sexual Disorders, 3d ed., p. 418.

[199] L. Tait, Diseases of Women, 1889, vol. i, p. 100.

[200] Obstetric Journal, vol. i, 1873, p. 558. Cf. G. J. Arnold, British, Medical Journal, January 6, 1906, p. 21.

[201] Dudley, American Journal of Obstetrics, July, 1889, p. 758.

[202] A. Reverdin, "Epingles à Cheveux dans la Vessie," Revue Médicale de la Suisse Romande, January 20, 1888. His cases are fully recorded, and his paper is an able and interesting contribution to this by-way of sexual psychology. The first case was a school-master's wife, aged 22, who confessed in her husband's presence, without embarrassment or hesitation, that the manœuvre was habitual, learned from a school-companion, and continued after marriage. The second was a single woman of 42, a curé's servant, who attempted to elude confession, but on leaving the doctor's house remarked to the house-maid, "Never go to bed without taking out your hair-pins; accidents happen so easily." The third was an English girl of 17 who finally acknowledged that she had lost two hair-pins in this way. The fourth was a child of 12, driven by the pain to confess that the practice had become a habit with her.

[203] "One of my patients," remarks Dr. R. T. Morris, of New York, (Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians, for 1892, Philadelphia, vol. v), "who is a devout church-member, had never allowed herself to entertain sexual thoughts referring to men, but she masturbated every morning, when standing before the mirror, by rubbing against a key in the bureau-drawer. A man never excited her passions, but the sight of a key in any bureau-drawer aroused erotic desires."

[204] Freud (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie, p. 118) refers to the sexual pleasure of swinging. Swinging another person may be a source of voluptuous excitement, and one of the 600 forms of sexual pleasure enumerated in De Sade's Les 120 Journées de Sodome is (according to Dühren) to propel a girl vigorously in a swing.

[205] The fact that horse exercise may produce pollutions was well recognized by Catholic theologians, and Sanchez states that this fact need not be made a reason for traveling on foot. Rolfincius, in 1667, pointed out that horse-riding, in those unaccustomed to it, may lead to nocturnal pollutions. Rohleder (Die Masturbation, pp. 133–134) brings together evidence regarding the influence of horse exercise in producing sexual excitement.

[206] A correspondent, to whom the idea was presented for the first time, wrote: "Henceforward I shall know to what I must attribute the bliss—almost the beatitude—I so often have experienced after traveling for four or five hours in a train." Penta mentions the case of a young girl who first experienced sexual desire at the age of twelve, after a railway journey.

[207] Langdon Down, British Medical Journal, January 12, 1867.

[208] Pouillet, L'Onanisme chez la Femme, Paris, 1880; Fournier, De l'Onanisme, 1885; Rohleder, Die Masturbation, p. 132.

[209] West-Riding Asylum Reports, 1876, vol. vi.

[210] Das Nervöse Weib, 1898, p. 193.

[211] In the Appendix to volume iii of these Studies, I have recorded the experience of a lady who found sexual gratification in this manner.

[212] Dr. J. G. Kiernan, to whom I am indebted for a note on this point, calls my attention also to the case of a homosexual and masochistic man (Medical Record, vol. xix) whose feelings were intensified by tight-lacing.

[213] Some women are also able to produce the orgasm, when in a state of sexual excitement, by placing a cushion between the knees and pressing the thighs firmly together.

[214] Leçons sur les Déformations Vulvaires, p. 64. Martineau was informed by a dressmaker that it is very frequent in workrooms and can usually be done without attracting attention. An ironer informed him that while standing at her work, she crossed her legs, slightly bending the trunk forward and supporting herself on the table by the hands; then a few movements of contraction of the adductor muscles of the thigh would suffice to produce the orgasm.

[215] C. W. Townsend, "Thigh-friction in Children under one Year," Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Society, Montreal, 1896. Five cases are recorded by this writer, all in female infants.

[216] Soutzo, Archives de Neurologie, February, 1903, p. 167.

[217] Zache, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1899, p. 72. I have discussed what may be regarded as the normally sexual influence of dancing, in the third volume of these Studies, "The Analysis of the Sexual Impulse."

[218] The case has been recorded of a Russian who had the spontaneous impulse to self-flagellation on the nates with a rod, for the sake of sexual excitement, from the age of 6. (Rivista Mensile di Psichiatria April, 1900, p. 102.)

[219] Κρυπτάδια, vol. v, p. 358. As regards the use of nettles, see Dühren, Geschlechtsleben in England, Bd. II, p. 392.

[220] Debreyne, Mœchialogie, p. 177.

[221] R. W. Taylor, A Practical Treatise on Sexual Disorders, 3rd ed., Ch. XXX.

[222] Hammond, Sexual Impotence, pp. 70 et seq.

[223] Niceforo, Il Gergo, p. 98.