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

by Havelock Ellis

• 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.
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• 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].
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  • 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].