CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XXIV
Importance of sexual perversions to the State and to society — Exaggerated views regarding their injurious influence — One-sided condemnation of them from the forensic-psychiatric standpoint — Their wide diffusion among healthy individuals — Protection against real injury to public and private interests from sexual offences — Their frequency among diseased persons — The idea of degeneration — Congenital taint and the stigmata of degeneration — Significance of these stigmata — Social causes of degeneration — Significance of tattooing — § 51 of the Criminal Code — The idea of “diminished responsibility” — Characterization of sexual emotions — Other factors lessening responsibility (menstruation, etc.) — Points of view in the punishment of acts of fornication with persons under age — Value of the evidence of children in the law-courts — The age of consent — The condemnation and punishment of sexual offences.