CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XXIII
Acts of fornication on the part of adults with children — “Pædophilia erotica” — Superstitious motives — Shunammitism — As a popular custom — Opportunity as a cause of pædophilia — Its frequency among menservants and schoolmasters — Acts of fornication with children less than six years of age — Examples — With children between the ages of six and fourteen years — Alluring influence of fruits verts upon debauchees — Causes — The mania for defloration — Other causal factors of acts of fornication with children — Examples.
Early appearance of the sexual impulse in children — Causes — In the country — The demi-vierge type — Early puberty in girls — Examples of sexual intercourse between children — Child prostitution — Parisian flower-girls — Match-selling girls and “music pupils” of Berlin — Blackmail — Causes of child prostitution.
Incest — Causes — Incest in France — Sexual relationship with a third individual on the part of two persons closely related to one another.
Acts of fornication with animals (zoophilia, bestiality) — Genuine zoophilia — A remarkable case thereof — Causes of bestiality — Its frequency in the country — Report of cases — Bestiality on the part of a woman — Reputed seduction of human beings by animals.
Acts of fornication with corpses (necrophilia) — Motives — Symbolic necrophilia — Love of statues — Influence of museums on uncultured individuals — Sexual intercourse with statues — Pygmalionism — Acts of fornication with objects resembling the human body — “Dames et hommes de voyage” — Exhibitionism — Morbid foundation of this — Other motives — Masturbation as a cause — A remarkable case of exhibitionism — “Frotteurs” — Example — Voyeurs — Secret sexual clubs — “Essayeurs” — “Stercoraires platoniques” — Pædication — Opium, hashish, and ether employed for sexual purposes — Use of these drugs in Paris — Sexual fantasies of the opium smoker.
Appendix: The Treatment of Sexual Perversions. — Importance of psychological factors in the treatment of sexual perversions — Management of the primary trouble — Psycho-therapeutics and suggestive therapeutics — Verbal suggestions — Confidence in the knowledge of the physician — Sexual perversions as diseases of the will — Need for the education of the will — Suggestion in the waking state — Suggestion by means of letters — By means of hypnosis — Special prescriptions.