[627] M. Hirschfeld has therefore suggested the apt name “partial attraction” for fetichism; unfortunately, no adjective can be formed from this term, so that for practical purposes the foreign word is more applicable.
[628] Cf. Felix Baumann, “From Darkest America,” pp. 10, 41.
[629] “Sex and Character,” pp. 340, 341.
[630] In the second volume of “Anthropophyteia” (1905, pp. 445-447), under the title, “The Sense of Smell in Relation to the Vita Sexualis,” I have published a contribution to this interesting theme. I addressed questions regarding the matter to various authorities; and among the answers I obtained, I must mention more especially those of Dr. Th. Petermann and Oscar A. H. Schmitz, to whom I owe valuable accounts and observations, which are in part utilized in the present chapter.
[631] Witmalett, “Man and Woman in Conjugal Union,” p. 48 (Leipzig and Stuttgart); J. P. Frank, “System of a Complete Medicinal Polity,” vol. ii., pp. 78, 79 (Frankenthal, 1791).
[632] N. D. Falck, “Treatise on Venereal Diseases.”
[633] Martial alludes (“Epigrams,” xii. 61, verses 7-10) to the obscene “carmina quæ legunt cacantes.”
[634] Many women are sexually excited by the flowers of the garden chestnut-tree, the smell of which resembles that of the semen of the male. A correspondent has communicated to me several observations of this nature from the Taunus district. G. d’Anunzio (“Lust,” p. 10) also describes the awakening of libido sexualis in woman by the smelling of a bouquet of flowers.
[635] Eugen Dühren (Iwan Bloch), “Rétif de la Bretonne: the Man, the Author, and the Reformer” (Berlin, 1906).
[636] Cf., regarding shoe fetichism, also the work of P. Näcke, “Un Cas de Fétichisme de Souliers, etc.,” published in the Bulletin de la Société de Médicine Mentale de Belgique, 1894.