Finally, two other works must be mentioned which consider the sexual life as a whole, a larger work and a smaller one. Forel’s[824] comprehensive book is distinguished from beginning to end by an original, subjective grasp of the question, and by an optimistic view of the future, as I have pointed out in my review of this book in the Deutsche Aerztezeitung. As such a subjective programme of a future solution of sexual problems, it will ever retain a value; and we can always follow with pleasure the demonstrations of the talented and sympathetic author, although the book is perhaps somewhat monotonous in character. Its merits, moreover, are counterbalanced by the almost complete neglect of the numerous recent researches in almost every department of the sexual life. More particularly the chapter upon syphilis and venereal diseases, the chapter upon homosexuality and sexual perversions, and the chapter upon marriage betray this fault. The chapter on marriage is a mere extract from Westermarck. The author is fully conscious of these defects, and freely admits them; and in spite of them the book must not be ignored, because its value really lies in its subjectivity, and because we find in it so profound a conviction of the great importance of social activity for the higher development of love. A shorter consideration of sexual problems, but one abounding in paradoxes, is to be found in a book by Leo Berg.[825]
In conclusion, I may give a brief survey of the reviews and other periodical publications which are occupied with sexual questions. A great periodical devoted to the entire province of sexual research does not exist. Such periodicals as we have deal with separate departments of the sexual life. A rather insignificant periodical, Vita Sexualis, which appeared for the first time in 1899, seems to have become extinct a few years later. An exceedingly valuable publication, especially occupied with the problems of homosexuality, bisexuality, and sexual intermediate stages, is the one edited by Magnus Hirschfeld, and entitled Annual for Sexual Intermediate Stages (of this eight volumes have hitherto appeared). Purely popular and belletristic aims are subserved by the homosexual monthly magazine Der Eigene (edited by Adolf Brand). Another annual, not less valuable than the one previously mentioned, is that edited by Friedrich S. Krauss, entitled Anthropophyteia. This treats more especially of folk-lorist research in sexual matters, and is a true treasure-house of new facts and observations.[826] The periodicals for the study of venereal diseases, such as the Archives of Dermatology and Syphilis, edited by F. J. Pick (hitherto eighty-two volumes), the Monthly Magazine of Practical Dermatology, edited by Unna and Tanzer (hitherto forty-four volumes), the Monthly Magazine for Diseases of the Urinary Organs and Sexual Hygiene, edited by W. Hammer, in succession to K. Ries (hitherto four volumes), and the other German and foreign dermato-urological periodicals, also contain much material regarding venereal diseases and sexual perversions. Interesting contributions to all sexual problems, as well as an extensive case-literature and bibliography, are to be found in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology and Criminology, edited by Hans Gross (hitherto twenty-seven volumes), proceeding largely from the pen of the learned and most original alienist Paul Näcke; also in the Monthly Magazine for Criminal Psychology and Criminal Law Reform, edited by Gustav Aschaffenburg; in the monthly magazine The Protection of Motherhood; a Magazine for the Reform of Sexual Ethics, edited by Helene Stöcker (vide supra, pp. 270 and 273); in the monthly magazine Sex and Society, edited by Karl Vanselow (hitherto two volumes); and in the illustrated magazine, under the same editorship, Beauty (hitherto four volumes). Finally, we have to mention certain periodicals concerned chiefly with the aims of racial hygiene, and containing valuable material—the Politico-Anthropological Review, edited by Ludwig Woltmann (hitherto five years of issue), and the Archives for Racial and Social Biology, edited by Alfred Ploetz (hitherto three years of issue).
[808] R. von Krafft-Ebing, “Psychopathia Sexualis.” Only Authorized Translation from the Twelfth revised German Edition (Rebman Limited, London, 1906).
[809] Cf. my “New Researches concerning the Marquis de Sade,” pp. 437-450 (Berlin, 1904).
[810] Recently A. Moll (Enzyklopädische Jahrbücher der gesamten Heilkunde, 1906, vol. xiii., pp. 238, 239) has expressed the “opinion,” without offering the slightest proof in support of his views, that “The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom” is a forgery. But I myself, in my French edition of this work, have given all the historical and critical details regarding its origin; moreover, the original manuscript, as has been shown by the examination of all the experts, (1) dates from the eighteenth century; (2) is throughout in de Sade’s original handwriting; (3) is written in his characteristic style; and, finally, the forgery of this manuscript, a roll 12 metres 12 centimetres in length, written on both sides in letters of microscopic smallness, would be an absolute impossibility. If anything is genuine and authentic, this work is such. Dr. Albert Eulenburg, without doubt one of the most experienced, if not the most experienced, student of de Sade, assured me that this work unquestionably came from de Sade’s pen. I must, therefore, reject Moll’s opinion, which was formed independently of any proof, and without any examination of the original manuscript, as unscientific and utterly futile.
[811] In popular writings dealing with the sexual life, I have myself found many interesting remarks, and even many new ideas. Naturally, when I say “popular,” I mean truly popular writings, not hawkers’ literature or garbage literature.
[812] A. von Schrenck-Notzing, “Suggestive Therapeutics in Cases of Morbid Manifestations of Sexual Sensibility,” preface, p. ix (Stuttgart, 1892).
[813] Von Schrenck-Notzing, “Bibliography of the Psychology and Psychopathology of the Vita Sexualis,” published in the Zeitschrift für Hypnotismus, vol. vii., Nos. 1 and 2, p. 121.
[814] In order to give an idea of the great interest in sexual science exhibited by the most diverse circles of cultured men of the present day, I shall merely mention in this note a few names, without pretending to give an exhaustive list: R. von Krafft-Ebing, Mantegazza, Ploss-Bartels, A. Eulenburg, von Schrenck-Notzing, Fr. S. Krauss, Tarnowsky, L. Löwenfeld, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, S. Freud, Georg Hirth, H. Kurella, H. Swoboda, Laurent, A. Hoche, C. Lombroso, P. Fürbringer, E. Carpenter, Rohleder, Alfred Fournier, A. Binet, Marro, J. J. Bachofen, J. Kohler, E. Westermarck, Max Dessoir, Alfred Blaschko, Albert Neisser, Eli Metchnikoff, Fritz Schaudinn, Ducrey, Unna, Oskar Schultze, Wilhelm Waldeyer, V. von Gyurkovechky, Louis Fiaux, Léon Taxil, Wilhelm Fliess, Willy Hellpach, P. J. Möbius, Heinrich Schurtz, B. Friedländer, Eduard von Meyer, Hans Ostwald, R. Kossmann, Otto Adler, W. Hammond, Beard, Wilhelm Erb, Paul Näcke, J. Salgó, H. T. Finck, F. Neugebauer, C. Wagner, H. Ferdy, Rosa Mayreder, Ellen Key, Helene Stöcker, Anna Pappritz, Maria Lischnewska, Lily Braun, and many others.