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| Introduction | [v] |
| Preface | [xi] |
| Contents | xiii |
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| I. | Introductory and Historical | [1] |
| | Subdivisions of the Period of Childhood--The Notion ofPuberty--Methods of Investigation.
Rousseau and Tissot--The Philanthropes--MedicalLiterature--The Older Psychology--History ofCivilisation--Studies of Prostitution--Works onZoology--Biographies--Belletristic Literature--EroticLiterature--Studies of Sexual Perversions--Recent SpecialResearches--Diaries.
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| II. | The Reproductive organs--The Sexual Impulse | [17] |
| | The Male Reproductive Organs--Erection--Ejaculation--TheVoluptuous Sensation--Female ReproductiveOrgans--Menstruation and Ovulation--Peripheral Processes,Erection, Ejaculation, and Voluptuous Sensation, in theFemale--The Reproductive Organs in Children.
Components of the Sexual Impulse--Excitement of the SexualImpulse--The Sexual Impulse and the Voluptuous Sensation.
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| III. | Sexual Differentiation in Childhood | [38] |
| | Secondary Sexual Characters--First Period ofChildhood--Second Period of Childhood--Psychical Differencesin Children--The Teachings of Experimental Psychology--TheTeachings of Empirical Psychology
(Erfahrungspsychologie)--Inborn Character of SexualDifferences--Pathological Experiences--CriminologicalExperiences.
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| IV. | Symptomatology | [50] |
| | Erections in the Child--Ejaculation--Origin ofEjaculation--Voluptuous Sensation.
The Undifferentiated Sexual Impulse--Examples--Phenomena ofContrectation in the Child--The Object ofDesire--Romanticism--Manifestations ofLove--Jealousy--Love-Letters andLove-Poems--Vanity--Shame--Differences between Boys andGirls--Changes in the Object of Desire.
Interdependence of the Processes of Contrectation andDetumescence--Temporal Relationship between these respectiveProcesses.
Masturbation--The Voluptuous Sensation--Modes ofMasturbation--Erogenic Zones--Comparison between Boys andGirls.
Ejaculation as a Consequence of Feelings ofAnxiety--Pollutions--Madame Roland's Description--IndividualDifferences--Sexual Phenomena in the Youth of the LowerAnimals.
The Teachings of Castration--Significance of theReproductive Glands--Theories.
The Years of Ripening--Retardation of Sexual Development.
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| V. | Pathology | [114] |
| | Pathologically Premature Menarche in Girls--PrematurePuberty in Boys--Conditions met with in Dwarfs--SexualParodoxy--Examples.
Sexual Perversions--Premature Development--CongenitalCharacter of Perversions--Illusions of Memory--Disappearanceof the Perversions of Childhood--The AssociationTheory--Criticism of this Theory--Instances in whichPerversions could be traced back to a very early Age--Originof Sexual Perversions in Non-SexualDispositions--Homosexuality and Friendship--Sexual Crueltyand Cruelty of other Kinds--DiagnosticDifficulties--Exhibitionism--Skatophilia--Hermaphroditism. | |
| VI. | Etiology and Diagnosis | [146] |
| | Family Tendencies--Abnormal NervousSystem--Race--Climate--Position in Life--Town andCountry--Modern Civilisation--Importance of CongenitalPredisposition--Seduction--Local Stimulation--ChemicalStimuli--Psychical Stimuli.
Diagnostic Difficulties--Recognition by means ofObservation--Erroneous Diagnoses of Masturbation--The Valueof Physical Signs--Value of a Confidant--MisleadingStatements and Conduct on the part of Children.
Non-Sexual Erections--Non-Sexual Manipulations--SuckingMovements--Nail-Biting--Imitativeness--Impossibility of anyDefinite Demarcation of Sexual Feelings.
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| VII. | Importance of the Sexual Life of the Child | [179] |
| | The Sexual Life and Morbid HereditaryPredisposition--Hygienic Dangers--The Dangers ofMasturbation in General--Of Masturbation in theChild--Masturbation without Ejaculation--Exaggerated Viewsto be Avoided--Amatory Passion and Suicide--Freud'sTheory--Infectious Diseases.
Ethical Dangers--Masturbation and Ethics--SocialDangers--Social Degradation of Girls--Seduction ofGirls--Forensic Importance of the Sexual Life--Children'sEvidence--Circumstances affecting Culpability--PenalResponsibility of Children--Intellectual Dangers--Sexualityand Altruism.
Sexual Perversions and the Choice of aProfession--Punishments and Masochism--Curiosity ofChildren--Sexuality and Art--The Question of the Offspring.
Importance of Tardy Sexual Development.
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| VIII. | The Child as an Object of Sexual Practices | [219] |
| | Pædophilia Erotica--Other Sexual Offences againstChildren--Sexual Acts Performed on Children--Significance ofeach Acts to the Child--Artificial Production of SexualPerversions--False Accusations--Statistics of Accusations byChildren--Reasons for Protecting Children----Injurieseffected on Children by the Law--Responsibility ofPædophiles.
Exhibitionism--Sadism--Newspaper Advertisement.
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| IX. | Sexual Education | [246] |
| | Limits of Educability--General Hygiene--Custom andMorality--Inculcation of the Sentiments of Shame andDisgust--Influence upon these Sentiments of Habit andExample--Morality and Nakedness--Excessive Sentiments ofShame and Disgust--The Nude in Art--Morality inFanatics--Erotic Books and Pictures.
Co-Education of the Sexes--Children's Balls--Diversion ofthe Sexual Impulse--Religious Education--The Bible--TheConfessional--Hypnotism--Psycho-Analysis--Counteraction ofPsychical Contagion.
Sexual Enlightenment--General EducationalInterests--Hygienic Reasons for Enlightenment--The Dangersof Venereal Infection--Of Masturbation--EthicalReasons--Forensic Reasons--Social Reasons--Age at whichEnlightenment is Desirable--Place of Enlightenment; Schoolor Home--The School Physician--Importance of theMother--Individualisation--Mode of Enlightenment.--Reasonsurged against Enlightenment--Need that the Instructor shouldbe an Enlightened Person--Exaggerated Views regarding theImportance of Sexual Enlightenment.
Physical Hygienic Measures--Stimulation by Means of theBed--Local Stimulation--MechanicalMeasures--Hydrotherapeutic Measures--Dirt--Sport andGames--Féré's Method.
Pedagogy and Sexual Perversions--Dangers fromPædophiles--Necessity for Heterosexual Influences--Dangersof Corporal Punishment--The Right of the Teacher to InflictPunishment--Conclusion.
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| Index of Subjects | [325]
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| Index of Names | [337] |