Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 / The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism

by Havelock Ellis

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

• Africa,
  • modesty in, [15] et seq., [48], [59], [78].
  • sexual periodicity in, [128].
• Ainu,
  • modesty of, [22].
• American Indians,
  • menstruation in, [89].
  • modesty of, [13].
• Anæmia and hysteria, [233].
• Andamanese modesty, [14].
• Animals,
  • breeding season of, [124].
  • hysteria in, [215].
  • masturbation in, [164] et seq.
  • modesty in, [37].
  • their dislike of dirt, [51].
• Annual sexual rhythm, [122] et seq., [300] et seq.
• Anus as a centre of modesty, [52].
• Apes,
  • masturbation in, [165].
  • menstruation in, [94].
  • Arabian festivals, [135].
• Arabs,
  • modesty in, [19], [42].
  • their ancient conception of uncleanness, [287].
• Art and auto-erotism, [265], [282].
• Asafœtida in hysteria, [211].
• Attitudes passionnelles, [224].
• Australia,
  • modesty in, [9], [60].
  • sexual festivals in, [127].
• Autumn festivals, [136].

• Baboon,
  • menstruation in, [93].
• Babylonian festivals, [135].
• Bashfulness, [36].
• Bathing,
  • promiscuous, [26], [34].
• Beltane fires, [131].
• Bengal,
  • modesty in, [14].
  • sexual periodicity in, [128].
• Birds,
  • dreams of, [193].
• Birthrate,
  • periodicity of, [137] et seq.
• Bladder,
  • as a source of dreams, [193].
  • foreign bodies in, [171] et seq.
  • periodicity in expulsive force of, [158].
• Blindness in relation to modesty, [77].
• Blood,
  • primitive ideas about, [289].
  • supposed virtues of menstrual, [292].
• Blood-pressure, [101].
• Blushing,
  • the significance of, [46], [72] et seq.
• Bonfire festivals, [131].
• Borneo,
  • modesty in, [15].
• Bosom in relation to modesty, [38].
• Brazil,
  • modesty in, [12], [60].
• Bread,
  • periodicity in consumption of, [155].
• Breeding season, [123] et seq.
• Brumalia, [130].

• Camargo, [33].
• Catholic theologians,
  • on delectatio morosa, [184].
  • on erotic dreams, [188].
  • on masturbation, [279].
• Celibacy and religion, [311].
• Ceremonial element in religion, [135].
• Chastity in Polynesia, [10].
• Chemical rays and sexual periodicity, [140].
• Childbirth,
  • modesty in, [29].
• Children,
  • masturbation in, [239].
  • periodicity of growth in, [153].
  • spring fever in, [149].
  • their lack of modesty, [36].
• Chimpanzee, menstruation in, [94].
• Chinese modesty, [20], [62].
• Chivalry and modesty, [64].
• Chlorosis and hysteria, [233].
• Christianity,
  • in relation to modesty, [25] et seq., [44].
  • its attitude towards masturbation, [278] et seq.
• Christmas festivals, [133], [137].
• Clothing and modesty, [58] et seq.
• Cod-piece, [28].
• Coitus,
  • and ceremonial ritual, [54].
  • as a sedative, [269].
  • in relation to masturbation, [257].
  • in relation to menstruation, [98] et seq.
  • in relation to modesty, [40].
  • often painful in hysteria, [203].
• Conception rate, [137] et seq.
• Conduct,
  • periodicity in, [152].
• Continence,
  • importance of, [282].
• Convents,
  • hysteria in, [217].
• Coquetry,
  • function of, [41], [59].
• Courtship,
  • the essential element in, [41].
• Crime,
  • periodicity of, [150].
• Criminals,
  • masturbation among, [238].
  • sexual outbursts in, [147].
• Crow,
  • breeding habits of, [125].
• Cycling in relation to sexual excitement, [177].

• Dancing,
  • auto-erotic aspects of, [180].
• Dancing and modesty, [28].
• Darkness in relation to blushing, [76].
• Day-dreaming, [184] et seq.
• Deer,
  • breeding habits of, [124].
• Delectatio morosa, [183], [184].
• Denmark,
  • modesty in, [29].
• Diogenes, [277].
• Dionysian festivals, [130].
• Disgust as a factor of modesty, [47] et seq., [82].
• Distillatio, [279].
• Dog,
  • breeding season of, [124].
• Drawers,
  • origin of feminine, [28], [32].
• Dreams,
  • and sexual periodicity, [112].
  • day, [184] et seq.
  • erotic, [191] et seq.
  • Freud on, [222].
  • inverted, [195].
  • vesical, [193] et seq.
• 
  
• Easter festivals, [131], [135].
  • modesty in, [48], [55].
• Eating,
• Ecbolic curve, [112] et seq.
• Economic factor of modesty, [64].
  • masturbation in, [165].
• Elephants,
  • nocturnal, [193].
• Enuresis,
  • anciently confused with hysteria, [211].
  • in relation to masturbation, [256].
• Epilepsy,
  • festivals, [127] et seq.
  • hallucinations, [200].
• Erotic dreams, [191] et seq.
  • menstruation in, [89].
  • modesty of, [47], [60].
  • sexual habits of, [126].
• Eskimo,
  • modesty among, [23].
• Etruscans,
• Evil eye and modesty, [56].
• Excretory customs and modesty, [52].
• Eye disorders and masturbation, [250].

• Face as a centre of modesty, [78].
• Fear,
  • modesty based on, [36], [47].
• Ferrets,
  • masturbation in, [165].
• Festivals,
  • erotic, [127] et seq.
• Fools,
  • Feast of, [130].
• Foot and modesty, [20].
• Frigidity caused by masturbation, [262].
• Fuegians,
  • modesty of, [13].
• 
  
  • annual curve of, [150].
• General paralysis,
• Globus hystericus, [210].
• Goethe, [266].
• Gogol, [265].
  • festivals of, [130].
  • modesty among, [22].
  • their attitude towards masturbation, [297].
• Greeks,
• Growth, periodicity in, [153].

• Hair-pin used in masturbation, [172] et seq.
• Hallucinations,
  • erotic, [200].
• Head,
  • covering the, [56].
• Heart disease,
  • monthly rhythm in, [111].
• "Heat" in animals, [91].
  • its relation to menstruation, [98].
• Hemicrania,
  • periodicity in, [112].
• Horse exercise and sexual excitement, [175].
• Horses,
  • masturbation in, [165].
• Hottentots,
  • masturbation among, [167].
• Hymen in relation to modesty, [39].
• Hysteria,
  • alleged seasonal prevalence of, [148].
  • and chlorosis, [233].
  • and masturbation, [256].
  • Breuer and Freud on, [219] et seq.
  • Charcot and, [214] et seq.
  • coitus often painful in, [203].
  • in relation to sexual emotion, [205] et seq.
  • nocturnal hallucinations of, [200].
  • physiological, [227] et seq.
  • the theory of, [209] et seq.
• 
  
  • modesty in, [30].
• Iceland,
  • periodicity of, [139].
• Illegitimate births,
• Incubus, [188].
  • conception rate in, [139].
  • masturbation in, [167].
  • modesty in, [14].
• India,
  • masturbation in, [238].
• Infants,
  • masturbation in the, [238], [243].
  • modesty in the, [51].
• Insane,
  • periodicity of, [88], [110], [112], [149].
• Insanity and masturbation, [252] et seq.
  • dreams in, [195].
• Inversion,
  • modesty in, [30], [63].
• Ireland,
• Ishtar, [135].
  • modesty in, [30], [35].
• Italy,
  • masturbation among, [167].
  • modesty of, [21], [70], [76].
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• Japanese,
• Jealousy in relation to modesty, [40], [63].

• Kadishtu, [135].
• Kierkegaard, [266].

• Lapps,
  • menstruation among, [89].
  • modesty of, [20].
• Lizard and women in folk-lore, [285], [286].
• Love largely based on modesty, [1], [5], [53], [82] et seq.

• Macaque,
  • menstruation in, [93].
  • Malay festivals, [130].
• Maori,
  • modesty, [11].
• Marriage caused by masturbation,
  • aversion to, [262].
• Marriage and the hysterical, [216], [232].
• Masturbation among animals, [164] et seq.
  • among lower human races, [166].
  • among higher human races, [169].
  • as a sedative, [268] et seq.
  • combined with religious emotions, [312] et seq.
  • in men of genius, [265].
  • interrupted, [195].
  • in the insane, [238], [243].
  • methods of, [166] et seq.
  • periodicity of, [115].
  • prevalence of, [235] et seq.
  • symptoms and results of, [248] et seq.
• May-day festivals, [131].
• Mediæval modesty, [27].
• Medicean Venus,
  • attitude of, [38].
• Menstrual blood,
  • supposed virtues of, [292].
• Menstrual cycle in men, [106] et seq.
• Menstruation,
  • among primitive peoples, [89].
  • and hysteria, [216].
  • and modesty, [55].
  • and pregnancy, [109].
  • and social position of women, [284] et seq.
  • as a continuous process, [90].
  • as a process of purification, [55].
  • cause doubtful, [94].
  • euphemisms for, [68].
  • in animals, [91] et seq.
  • occasional absence in health, [96].
  • origin of, [86].
  • precocity in, [238].
  • primitive theory of, [286].
  • relation to "heat," [98].
  • relation to ovulation, [95].
  • relation to sexual desire, [98] et seq.
• Mental energy, periodicity of, [158].
• Metabolism,
  • seasonal influences on, [159].
• Mittelschmerz, [89] et seq.
• Mohammedans,
  • attitude towards menstruation, [278].
  • modesty of, [19], [55].
  • mysticism among, [323].
• Midsummer festivals, [132].
• Monkeys,
  • breeding season of, [124], [126].
  • masturbation in, [165].
  • menstruation in, [92].
• Moon and masturbation, [86] et seq., [111], [199].
• Moral element in modesty, [83].
• Moritz, K. P., [265].
• Muscular force,
  • periodicity of, [158].
• Mysticism and sexual emotion, [205], [315] et seq.

• Nakedness,
  • chaste in its effects, [61].
  • in relation to modesty, [8] et seq., [75].
• Narcissism, [206].
• Nates as a centre of modesty, [59].
• Negroes,
  • modesty of, [15] et seq.
• Nervous diseases and masturbation, [252] et seq.
• Neurasthenia and masturbation, [259].
• New England,
  • modesty in, [33].
• New Georgians,
  • modesty among, [8].
• New Guinea,
  • folk-lore of menstruation in, [286].
  • modesty in, [9].
• New Hebrides,
  • modesty in, [8].
• New Zealand,
  • modesty in, [11].
• Nicobarese modesty, [14].
• Night-inspiration, [76].
• Novel-reading,
  • alleged sexual periodicity in, [155].
• 
  
  • Roman horror of, [67].
• Obscenity,
• Œstrus, [91], [101].
  • the term, [162].
• "Onanism,"
  • menstruation in, [92].
• Orang-utan,
  • spontaneous, [182] et seq.
• Orgasm,
• Ornament as a sexual lure, [61].
  • alleged association of, [216].
• Ovaries with hysteria,
• Ovulation and menstruation, [95].

• Papuans,
  • modesty of, [9].
  • sexual periodicity among, [128].
• Penis suecedaneus, [169].
• Pollutio, [188].
• Pollutio interruptus, [195].
• Polynesian modesty, [10], [60].
• Precocity,
  • sexual, [238], [244].
• Pregnancy,
  • menstrual cycle during, [109].
• Prostitutes,
  • hysteria among, [217].
  • masturbation in, [238].
  • modesty of, [70].
• Prudery, [33], [35].
• Prurience based on modesty, [65].
• Psychic coitus, [183].
• Psychic traumatism, [220].
• Pulse,
  • periodicity of the, [111], [297].
• 
  
• Railway travelling as cause of sexual excitement, [176].
  • periodicity of, [150].
• Rapes,
• Religion and sexual emotions, [310] et seq.
• Revery, [184] et seq.
• Rhythm, [85].
• Riding as a cause of sexual excitement, [175].
• Ritual factor of modesty, [54], [65].
• Roland, Mme., [189].
  • modesty of, [24], [67].
• Romans,
• Rosalia, [130].
• Rousseau, [265].
  • conception rate in, [139].
  • modesty in, [31].
• Russia,
• Rest, [91], [100].

• Sacro-pubic region as a centre of modesty, [51].
• St. John's Eve,
  • festival of, [132].
• Samoa, [12].
• Samoyeds,
  • menstruation among, [89].
• Saturnalia, [132].
• Scarlet fever,
  • periodicity of, [157].
• Schools,
  • auto-erotic phenomena in, [240] et seq.
• Seasonal periodicity of sexual impulse, [112] et seq.
• Seduction and menstruation, [103].
• Seminal emissions during sleep, [188] et seq.
• Serpent in folk-lore, [284] et seq.
• Sewing-machine as a cause of sexual excitement, [176].
• Sexual anæsthesia induced by masturbation, [262].
• Sexual factor of modesty, [37] et seq.
• Sexual desire,
  • in relation to blushing, [74].
  • in relation to hysteria, [212] et seq.
  • in relation to menstruation, [100] et seq.
  • in relation to modesty, [42] et seq., [64].
  • in relation to season, [122] et seq.
  • in women, [3], [100] et seq.
• • what we owe to irradiations of, [5].
• Sexual periodicity in men, [107] et seq., [297] et seq.
• Sexual organs viewed differently by savage and civilized peoples, [61].
  • definition and nature of, [6], [36], [48], [83].
• Shame,
• Short sight and modesty, [77].
• Shyness, [77].
  • private, [66].
• Slang,
• Sleep in relation to sexual activity, [188] et seq.
• Snake and women in folk-lore, [284] et seq.
• Somnambulism of bladder, [194].
  • modesty in, [66].
• Speech,
  • as season of sexual excitement, [148].
  • festivals of, [134] et seq.
• Spring,
  • auto-erotic aspects of, [174].
• Swinging,
• Succubus, [188].
  • periodicity of, [115], [153].
• Suicide,
  • and modesty, [55].
• 
  
• Taboo and menstruation, [287].
• Tahiti, [10].
  • opinions of, [184], [188], [278], [279].
• Tammuz festival, [135].
• Theologians,
• Theresa, St., [205], [220], [323].
• Thigh-friction, [179], [239].
• Thumb-sucking, [239].
• Timidity, [7].
  • modesty at, [9].
• Tight-lacing as a cause of sexual excitement, [178].
• Torres Straits,
• Turkish modesty, [19], [31].

• Uncleanness,
  • primitive conception of, [287] et seq.
• Uric acid,
  • excretion, periodicity of, [159].
• Urine,
  • incontinence of, [193].
• Urtication,
  • as a form of auto-erotism, [181].
• 
  
• Valentine's Day, [131].
  • origin of the, [55] et seq.
• Veil,
• Vesical dreams, [193] et seq.
  • private, [66].
• Vocabularies,
• 
  
• Walpurgisnacht, [134].
  • erotic hallucinations of, [202].
• Weekly sexual rhythm, [115] et seq., [306] et seq.
• Witches,
  • as property in relation to modesty, [63].
  • masturbation among, [169] et seq., [243] et seq., [264] et seq.
  • menstruation in, [86] et seq., [284] et seq.
  • sexual impulse in, [3].
  • their auto-erotic manifestations in sleep, [196].
  • their night-inspiration, [76].
  • whether more modest than men, [3], [75].
• Womb anciently thought source of hysteria, [212].
  • primitive divisions of, [134].
• Women,
  • auto-erotic manifestations in, [188].
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• Year,
• 
  
• Zeus,

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DIAGRAMS

CHART I.—The Monthly Ecbolic Curve.

CHART II.—The Annual Curve of the Conception-rate in Europe.

CHART III.—The Annual Ecbolic Curve.

CHART IV.—Curve of the Annual Incidence of Insanity in London.

CHART V.—Curve of the Annual Incidence of General Paralysis in Paris (Garnier).

CHART VI.—The Suicide-rate in London.

CHART VII.

CHART VIII.

CHART IX.—Lunar-monthly Rhythm of Male Sexual Period.

CHART X.—Curves of Lunar-monthly Rhythm as Smoothed by taking Pairs of Days.

CHART XIa.—Weekly Rhythm of Male Sexual Period.

CHART XIb.—Weekly Rhythm of Male Sexual Period.

CHART XII.—Weekly Rhythm of Male Sexual Period.

CHART XIII.—Joint Weekly Rhythm of Male Sexual Period, years 1886, 1887, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897 combined.

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