[19] Dr. Alice B. Stockham, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage, N. Y., 1896. She recommends that both husband and wife refrain from the erotic acme. “During a lengthy period of perfect control, the whole being of each is merged into the other, and an exquisite exaltation experienced. This may be accompanied by a quiet motion, entirely under subordination of the will, so that the thrill of passion may not go beyond a pleasurable exchange.... With abundant time and mutual reciprocity the interchange becomes satisfactory and complete, without emission or crisis. In the course of an hour the physical tension subsides, the spiritual exaltation increases and not uncommonly visions of a transcendent life are seen and consciousness of new powers experienced.” (Page 25.) She suggests that such episodes should take place from two weeks to three months apart, and should be the only type of love episode except where procreation is desired.
[20] Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens. Psychoanalytische Jahrbuch (1910).
[21] Harrow: Glands in Health and Disease, N. Y., 1922, p. 105.
[22] For a discussion of masochism see [§§ 177, 180].
[23] For a discussion of the Mother-Imago see the chapter on Prostitution.
[24] “When we say that for health any individual requires an adequate sexual outlet, it must be understood that this outlet may be secured in a great number of different ways. A person may be having regular and frequent sexual intercourse (excessive intercourse, in fact) without this affording him an adequate outlet, or preventing his libido from becoming dammed up.”—Frink: Morbid Fears and Compulsions, p. 268.
[25] Lombroso and Ferrero: ap. Ellis, op. cit., VI, 415.
[27] Stekel, W.: The Homosexual Neurosis, Boston, 1922, p. 117.