[642] Compare in this connexion more especially the apt remarks of J. P. Frank, “System of a Medical Polity,” vol. vi., pp. 94, 95 (Frankenthal, 1792).
[643] Cf. Sollier’s remarks on this subject in Von Schrenck-Notzing’s “Die Suggestions-Therapie,” p. 7.
[644] Regarding child prostitution in Berlin, numerous details are to be found in the work, “Child Prostitution in Berlin: Unvarnished Revelations and Moral Pictures by an Initiate” (Leipzig, 1895).
[645] G. Schmoller, “Elements of General Political Economy,” vol. i., p. 233 (Leipzig, 1901).
[646] Such relations can become actual, even at the present day, as we learn from the case reported by the Public Prosecutor, Dr. Kersten, in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology (1904, vol. xvi., p. 330), of a Moor, sixty-five years of age, who, in intercourse with his step-daughter, procreated a daughter, and later with this daughter of his own, when she was thirteen years of age, had sexual intercourse!
[647] G. Mirabeau, “Erotika Biblion,” p. 91 (Brussels, 1868).
[648] German authors use the word Sodomie to denote sexual relationships between human beings and animals. Mr. Havelock Ellis informs me (in a private letter) “the German use of ‘sodomy’ to include ‘bestiality’ is quite ancient, and no doubt had a theological origin. I imagine the confusion was made with the idea of throwing on to ‘bestiality’ the same reprobation as the Bible metes out to ‘sodomy.’” There is, of course, no mention of bestiality in connexion with the destruction of Sodom. The sin for which the city was destroyed was the desire for carnal knowledge of the two angels in the house of Lot (Gen. xix. 5). The signification of the various terms used to denote unnatural intercourse is thus defined by Mann, in his work on “Forensic Medicine”: Sodomy means unnatural sexual intercourse between two human beings, usually of the male sex.... Tribadism, the gratification of the sexual instinct between two human beings of the female sex.... Pederastia is that form of sodomy in which the passive rôle is played by a boy, the active agent being man or boy. Bestiality means sexual intercourse between mankind and the lower animals. Generally speaking, in this translation the terms mentioned are used as above defined. If there is any variation from that use, the context will manifest it. In any case, Sodomy has never been employed in the translation as an equivalent of the German Sodomie, the latter term having been invariably rendered by Bestiality.—Translator.
[649] Iwan Bloch, “A Remarkable Case of Sexual Perversion (Zoophilia),” published in Medizinische Klinik, 1906, No. 2.
[650] Of the recent literature on this subject I may refer to G. Dubois-Dessaulle, “Étude sur la Bestialité au Point de Vue Historique, Médical, et Juridique” (Paris, 1905); F. Reichert, “The Significance of Sexual Psychopathy in Human Beings, in Relation to Veterinary Practice,” Inaugural Dissertation (Bern and Munich, 1902); Franz Hora, “A Case of Unnatural Fornication with a Goose,” published in the Tierärztliches Zentralblatt, 1903, No. 13, p. 197; R. Froehner, “Sadistic Injuries to Animals,” published in the Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, No. 1, 1903, p. 153; same author in Der Preussische Kreistierarzt, vol. i., pp. 487-491 (Berlin, 1904); Grundmann, “A Case of Bestiality and Sadism,” published in the Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, 1905, No 45. A very painstaking and critical study of unnatural fornication with animals is published by Haberda in the Vierteljahrsschrift für Gerichtliche Medizin, 1907, vol. xxxiii., supplementary number. It deals with 162 medico-legal cases. Among these, two only concern girls of sixteen and twenty-nine years of age respectively, persons who have had improper relations with dogs. Most of the male offenders were persons whose occupations brought them much into contact with domestic animals; about half of them were under twenty years of age. The animals concerned were cattle, goats, horses, dogs, pigs, sheep, and hens. In the majority of cases there were fornicatory acts—acts analogous to sexual intercourse—less commonly other sexual contacts. The girl of sixteen was caught in the act of intercourse with a dog. The majority of male offenders made use of female animals. In two cases young men allowed dogs to have intercourse with them per anum, the dogs having been trained to do this, and in both of them were found lacerations of the anus and rectum. Only in a few of the 172 cases of bestiality was there any reason to doubt the mental integrity of the person concerned. In those cases there was senile dementia, epilepsy, or alcoholism. The principal causes for the practice of bestiality were enhanced opportunities, the lack of possibility in the country for conjugal or extra-conjugal normal sexual intercourse, or, finally, superstition (belief in the possibility of curing of venereal disease by intercourse with animals).
[651] Regarding the ethnology of bestiality, consult my “Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., pp. 272-276.