[396] Havelock Ellis, “The Sexual Impulse and the Sense of Shame.”
[397] Fürbringer’s article, “Masturbation,” in Eulenburg’s Real-Enzykldopädie der gesamten Heilkunde, vol. xvii., p. 523, third edition (Vienna and Leipzig, 1898).
[398] Metchnikoff, “The Nature of Man,” pp. 95-99.
[399] A French erotic work describes how an impotent man, in the hope of obtaining an erection, allowed a cockchafer to crawl about his penis.
[400] Probably the following case of an onanist, sixty-four years of age, is unique. It is reported by A. Wild (“A Contribution to the Refinements of Masturbation,” published in the Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 11, 1906). He introduced a twig of a pine-tree into the urethra, and in such a way that when the attempt was made to draw it out, the pine-needles acted as barbs; consequently the twig broke off short, and it was necessary for the medical man to remove it with the aid of dressing forceps!
[401] Cf. the complete historical and literary account of godemichés, given in my “Sexual Life in England,” vol. ii., pp. 284-292 (Berlin, 1903).
[402] Cf. the explanation of this passage by Iwan Bloch, “Were the Ancients aware of the Contagious Character of Venereal Diseases?” published in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 5, 1899.
[403] S. Freud, “Three Papers on the Sexual Theory,” pp. 37, 42 (Leipzig and Vienna, 1905).
[404] R. Kossmann, “Is the Medical Man Justified in Recommending Extra-Conjugal Sexual Intercourse?” published in the Journal for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases, 1905, vol. iii., p. 126.