[637] The Berlin newspapers, a few years ago, were full of accounts of such a thief, who stole underclothing (cf. Berliner Tageblatt, No. 465, September 13, 1903). He was the terror of all housewives in the western suburbs of Berlin. Ultimately he was caught, and proved to be a workman, K. W. by name. In his house the police found a varied assortment of underclothing.
CHAPTER XXIII
ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CHILDREN, INCEST, ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CORPSES AND ANIMALS (BESTIALITY), EXHIBITIONISM, AND OTHER SEXUAL PERVERSITIES.
APPENDIX: THE TREATMENT OF SEXUAL PERVERSITIES.
“But what a source of devastation is a public or private teacher of youth, when his heart is impure!... What a tragic example of misleading is he who, himself in a position imposing upon him the duty of leading others towards virtue, is animated by the most detestable of all passions.”—Johann Peter Frank.
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XXIII
Acts of fornication on the part of adults with children — “Pædophilia erotica” — Superstitious motives — Shunammitism — As a popular custom — Opportunity as a cause of pædophilia — Its frequency among menservants and schoolmasters — Acts of fornication with children less than six years of age — Examples — With children between the ages of six and fourteen years — Alluring influence of fruits verts upon debauchees — Causes — The mania for defloration — Other causal factors of acts of fornication with children — Examples.
Early appearance of the sexual impulse in children — Causes — In the country — The demi-vierge type — Early puberty in girls — Examples of sexual intercourse between children — Child prostitution — Parisian flower-girls — Match-selling girls and “music pupils” of Berlin — Blackmail — Causes of child prostitution.
Incest — Causes — Incest in France — Sexual relationship with a third individual on the part of two persons closely related to one another.