under such circumstances before.[131] Under favoring conditions some incident of this kind at an early age may exert a decisive influence on the sexual life.  Tambroni, of Ferrara, records the case of a boy of 11 who first felt voluptuous emotions on seeing in an illustrated journal the picture of a man trampling on his daughter; ever afterward he was obliged to evoke this image in masturbation or coitus.[132] An instructive case has been recorded by Fere.  In this case a lady of neurotic heredity on one side, and herself liable to hysteria, experienced her first sexual crisis at the age of 13, not long after menstruation had become established, and when she had just recovered from an attack of chorea.  Her old nurse, who had remained in the service of the family, had a ne’er-do-well son who had disappeared for some years and had just now suddenly returned and thrown himself, crying and sobbing, at the knees of his mother, who thrust him away.  The young girl accidentally witnessed this scene.  The cries and the sobs provoked in her a sexual excitement she had never experienced before.  She rushed away in surprise to the next room, where, however, she could still hear the sobs, and soon she was overcome by a sexual orgasm.  She was much troubled at this occurrence, and at the attraction which she now experienced for a man she had never seen before and whom she had always looked upon as a worthless vagabond.  Shortly afterward she had an erotic dream concerning a man who sobbed at her knees.  Later she again saw the nurse’s son, but was agreeably surprised to find that, though a good-looking youth, he no longer caused her any emotion, and he disappeared from her mind, though the erotic dreams concerning an unknown sobbing man still occurred rather frequently.  During the next ten years she suffered from various disorders of more or less hysterical character, and, although not disinclined to the idea of marriage, she refused all offers, for no man attracted her.  At the age of 23, when staying in the Pyrenees, she made an excursion into Spain, and was present at a bull-fight.  She was greatly excited by the charges of the bull, especially when the charge was suddenly arrested.[133] She felt no interest in any of the men who took part in the performance or were present; no man was occupying her imagination.  But she experienced sexual sensations and accompanying general exhilaration, which were highly agreeable.  After one bull had charged successively several times the orgasm took place.  She considered the whole performance barbarous, but could not resist the desire to be present at subsequent bull-fights, a desire several times gratified, always with the same results, which were often afterward repeated in dreams.  From that time she began to take an interest in horse-races, which she now found produced the same effect, though not to the same degree, especially when there was a fall.  She subsequently married, but never experienced sexual satisfaction except under these abnormal circumstances or in dreams.[134]