CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XVI
Wide diffusion of auto-erotic phenomena — Their significance in relation to civilization — Physiological and pathological relations — Their diffusion among animals and among primitive peoples — The auto-erotic instrumentarium — Causes of auto-erotism and of masturbation — New views regarding the masturbation of sucklings — The sexual tension of puberty — Sexual toxins — Mechanical stimuli in sexual tension — Sedative and anodyne effects of masturbation — Seduction as the cause of masturbation — Group-masturbation in schools, etc. — Diseases as causes of masturbation — Inheritance of the tendency to masturbation — Masturbation in the female sex — Its frequency — Psychical onanism — Sexual day-dreams — Erotic correspondence — Consequences of masturbation — Exaggerated views of former times — Analysis of the harmfulness of masturbation — Changes of the psyche and of the will — Explanation of certain phenomena of our time as due to masturbation — Physical consequences of masturbation — Local changes in the genital organs — Abnormalities in the libido sexualis — Treatment and cure of masturbation — Clothing — Trousers and masturbation — Doctor Bernhard Faust’s book — Various medical methods employed in the treatment of masturbation.
Sexual neurasthenia — Its connexion with masturbation — Relative independence of its symptoms — Abnormal increase of the sexual impulse (sexual hyperæsthesia) — Causes — Peculiar form of nocturnal increase of the sexual impulse — Satyriasis and priapism — Nymphomania — Causes of Nymphomania — Examples — Treatment of sexual hyperæsthesia — Abnormal diminution of the sexual impulse (sexual anæsthesia) — Causes — Frequency of sexual frigidity in women — Causes — Vaginismus — Treatment of frigidity in women — Frigidity and prostitution — Frigidity and marriage — Erotomania — Seminal emissions — Lallemand’s distinction between normal and abnormal pollutions — Morbid pollutions — Diurnal pollutions — Abnormalities of the genital organs and of the sensation during pollutions — Spermatorrhœa and prostatorrhœa — Pollutions in women — Older and more recent observations — Medical treatment of pollutions.
Impotence — Its principal forms — Malformations of the genital organs — Castration — Gonorrhœal diseases — Azoospermia — Smallness and injuries of the penis — Incomplete erections — Central and peripheral causes of erection — Functional impotence — General disorders — Deleterious influence of alcohol and tobacco — Nervous impotence — The psychical impotence of the wedding night — Examples — Mental work and potency — The effect of sudden mental impressions — Reflective impotence — Rousseau’s Venetian adventure — Neurasthenic impotence — Its forms and symptoms — Impotence due to abstinence — Senile impotence — Treatment of impotence.
Other phenomena of sexual neurasthenia (gastric disorders, etc.) — Sexual hypochondria — The treatment of sexual neurasthenia.