The other case, known to the author, is that of a man of thirty. He is married and has two healthy children. In commixtione conjugæ he has to call up the mental images of men, otherwise complete libido is missing. As a small boy, he loved contrectare parvas puellas. When thirteen years of age he began spontaneously to practise stuprum manu. At fourteen he was seduced by an urning ad stuprum manu and to paederastic practices. The embracing and kissing of homosexual men induces ejaculation and orgasm. His erotic dreams are partly filled with male, partly with female images.
Another case is that of a young man of twenty-five, who since early youth had an inclination for boys and liked to sleep with them and fondle them. At puberty he began to practise paederastia with boys of his age. His erotic dreams turn exclusively around males. Still he is also fond of girls. Although he never had any sexual relations with women, yet when dancing with them or at other occasions, when he happens to come in bodily contact with them, he frequently has sudden emissions.
Among female psychical hermaphrodites are very often found married women and mothers of children. But while in their normal sex-activity they are almost impotent of experiencing libido, the homosexual practice is accompanied with great intensity of libido.
In one of Krafft-Ebing’s cases the patient, twenty-nine years of age, came of a nervous family. When eighteen years of age, she had relations with a young man. After separation from her lover she se stuprabat manu for some time. She then donned male attire and became a tutor in a refined family. Her employer’s wife fell in love with her,[BE] and she left her position. Some time later she fell ill and was sent to a hospital. While there she fell passionately in love with female nurses and patients.
In another case of Krafft-Ebing’s the patient, twenty-six years of age, is married and has two children. She always inclined more to her own sex. Complexus venereus with her husband disgusts her. Since the birth of her second child she gave up this intercourse entirely. When a pupil in the seminary she was in love with other girls. At times, however, she was also drawn toward men. But the latter feeling was only of a transient character. Her desire is to fondle, kiss and embrace the beloved girl and imitari coitum cum ea.
In Moll’s case the patient is thirty-six years of age. As a child, she loved to play with boys and girls indiscriminately. She also liked to play with dolls. She was wholly innocent and had no passionate friendships, either with boys or girls.
She began to menstruate when thirteen and a half years old. At that time she began to experience the first sexual excitements. She had some vague sensations in muliebribus. She never practised manu stuprum. When sixteen and a half years of age, she was sold by a woman in fornicem, where she was forced to stay several years, until she finally succeeded in escaping.
While in this house she associated with another girl, slept with her and practised mutual cunnilingus, which gave her great delight. Yet she enjoyed concubitum with some men. She even allowed one man to practise cunnilingus secum.
After she left the house she went to Berlin and soon succeeded in finding a girl friend with whom she lived for two years and practised active cunnilingus. Afterwards she secured another friend whom she dearly loved because of her manly features.
The cunnilingus that men practised on her gave her satisfaction, but she experienced the greater delight, “si femina eam lingua lambit.” Initus no longer gave her satisfaction, nor was she ever satisfied in dreams. The images in her dreams were sometimes female, at other times male.
Strict homosexuality.—In the second degree, only homosexuality is found. The opposite sex causes frigidity and even horror. In this degree the sexual desires and inclinations are ab origine only for the same sex. But the inclinations to the same sex are limited to the “vita sexualis,” while in character and mentality the patient remains distinctly in conformity with the sexual glands. The histories of the three following cases observed by the author will well illustrate this degree of homosexuality:
A young man of thirty-five years began to feel a certain attraction toward his own sex when only ten years old. At puberty this attraction developed into the strong desire to have complexus venereus cum amicis. At the same time there was a pronounced feeling of indifference and, later on, that of actual repulsion towards women. The only way to have concarnationem cum mulieribus at all was by Venus aversa and thinking at the same time of sympathetic men.
The second case is that of a man of thirty-three years of age. As a boy of seven, he was initiated by an older friend into the mysteries of stuprum manu. At puberty he found a few friends with whom he often practised paedicatio. His erotic dreams are of men only, At the mere sight of a man’s virilia he has orgasm and ejaculation. To procure himself this enjoyment he frequently visits the seashore and other bathing places where he can see naked boys and men. Even the statues of men in museums cause erections. Women have no attraction for him. Even the most beautiful women do not excite the slightest degree of desire. No erection in their company takes place, even if they allow advances and the most intimate sensual titillations.
The following case of a man of thirty years of age shows how maladjustments of environment may develop a permanent homosexual perversion. At the age of ten the patient was abused by his tutor for paederastic purposes. Since then he was not able to give it up. Concarnatio with sympathetic men gives him the highest pleasure. His aversion to women is now complete. Before his seduction he had inclinations to little girls. Nowadays the sight of a naked woman disgusts him. He loves to be caressed, fondled and adored by men. He likes to be adored by and feel dependent upon some powerful man. He hires strong men ad inserendum fascini in anum suum. For this reason he is often found in the haunts of the worst gangs of the under-world of the city. He never as yet played the active part, quamquam erectiones et ejaculationes habet vehementes jacens in brachiis amatorum mercenariorum.
Krafft-Ebing relates the histories of several female patients belonging to this degree of homosexuality.
One of his patients was neurasthenic and always excited. From her earliest youth she was subject to sexual excitement and spontaneously stuprabat manu. She began to menstruate at the age of fourteen. Menstruation caused her great pains and was accompanied by intense sexual excitement. When she was eighteen years old she gave up manu stuprum. She never experienced inclination toward the opposite sex and married only to find a home. On the other hand, she was powerfully attracted by girls and realized that this meant more than mere friendship. The sight of a pretty girl causes her intense excitement. She has at once the desire to embrace and kiss her. She dreams of girls and revels in looking at them.
In another case of Krafft-Ebing’s the patient was twenty-two years of age and considered a beauty. Though she was very sensual, yet she refused all proposals of men and only once in her life allowed an admirer to kiss her.
Until puberty she was sexually indifferent. When seventeen years of age she happened to see one of her admirers in “actione coeundi,” “more bestiarum,” cum muliere menstruata in horto. The sight of the blood and the bestial lust of the man terrified her to such a degree that she saw henceforth in men only the embodiment of coarseness and vulgarity. When nineteen years of age she made the acquaintance of another invert with whom she indulged in wild orgies until she fell exhausted and unnerved. Cum altera jaceret in se cunnilingum faciens she felt an unspeakable thrill going through her whole body. She herself was only allowed to kiss the other’s “mammae.” These relations with her friend lasted a year.
Effemination and viraginity with psychical perversion only.—In the third degree of homosexuality, the so-called effemination or viraginity, where the entire mental existence is altered, the man of this type resembles in his mental qualities a woman, “anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa.” But his body is still that of a perfect man. The woman, on the other hand, resembles in her mental qualities a man, while her bodily characteristics remain still feminine. The following few cases may serve as an illustration:
The patient is a man of thirty years of age, tall, manly, with broad shoulders and an abundance of hair of beard and mustache. As a child, he was disposed to girls’ games. At the time of puberty, he spontaneously acquired the vitium stupri manu, but always with the accompaniment of the prurient imagery of males. As far as he can remember he was always attached to men. He shunned women as he would a lethal pest. He also abhors paedicatio and fellatio.
He is given to introspection and self-scrutiny. He is retiring in his manners, is melancholic and often harbors suicidal inclinations. The expression of shame is toward grown men, not toward girls or women. Already when a very young boy he was ashamed to undress before a man. He is very fond of perfumes, likes to powder and paint himself and to pencil his eye-brows. He is very curious, vain, and loves to gossip.
The second case of the author is that of a physician, forty years of age. In his earliest childhood he always played with dolls, associated with girls only and avoided boys’ games. He was always sickly as a child. He began stuprum manu when he was eleven years old, seduced by one of his girl friends. At puberty he gave up stuprum manu and began to love strong men. He had frequent pollutions with male imagery which weakened him considerably. At the same time his voluptas grew stronger. He then tried to associate with meretricious venery but found himself completely impotent for erection or orgasm. Even the manusturpation of the puella publica would fail to effect an erection. His desire is to be in the arms of a strong man. In the homosexual acts he always plays the passive rôle. He is effeminate in his character, sensitive, easily moved to tears, and is greatly embarrassed and silent in men’s company; while among women he feels himself perfectly at home. He feels himself a perfect woman.
Viraginity with psychical perversion is as often found among women as effemination among men. A good many cases of this kind of viraginity have been reported in the medical literature.