Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 378 pages of information about Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 378 pages of information about Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4.

[31] B. Adachi “Geruch der Europaer,” Globus, 1903, No. 1.

[32] Hagen quotes testimonies on this point, Sexuelle Osphresiologie, p. 173.  The negro, Castellani states, considers that Europeans have a smell of death.

[33] Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, vol. ii, p. 181.

[34] Waitz, Introduction to Anthropology, p. 103.

[35] Monin, Les Odeurs du Corps Humain, second edition, Paris, 1886, discusses briefly but comprehensively the normal and more especially the pathological odors of the body and of its secretions and excretions.

[36] Venturi, Degenerazione Psicho-sessuale, p. 417.

[37] Quoted by Fere, L’Instinct Sexuel, 1902, p. 133.

[38] H. Ling Roth, “On Salutations,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, November, 1889.

[39] See Appendix A:  “The Origins of the Kiss.”

[40] See, e.g., passage quoted by I. Bloch, Beitraege zur AEtiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, Teil II, p. 205.

[41] It must at the same time be remembered that the more or less degree of exposure involved by sexual intercourse is itself a cause of nasal congestion and sneezing.

[42] Fere, Pathologie des Emotions, p. 81

[43] J.N.  Mackenzie similarly suggests (Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, No. 82, 1898) that “irritation and congestion of the nasal mucous membrane precede, or are the excitants of, the olfactory impression that forms the connecting link between the sense of smell and erethism of the reproductive organs exhibited in the lower animals.”

[44] Les Odeurs dans les Romans de Zola, Montpellier, 1889.

[45] Toulouse, Emile Zola, pp. 163-165, 173-175.

[46] P.J.  Moebius, Das Pathologische bei Nietzsche.

[47] Moll has a passage on the sense of smell in the blind, more especially in sexual respects, Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis, bd. 1, pp. 137 et seq.

[48] See, for instance, his poem, “Love Perfumes all Parts,” in which he declares that “Hands and thighs and legs are all richly aromatical.”  And compare the lyrics entitled “A Song to the Maskers,” “On Julia’s Breath,” “Upon Julia’s Unlacing Herself,” “Upon Julia’s Sweat,” and “To Mistress Anne Soame.”

[49] There are various indications that Goethe was attentive to the attraction of personal odors; and that he experienced this attraction himself is shown by the fact that, as he confessed, when he once had to leave Weimar on an official journey for two days he took a bodice of Frau von Stein’s away in order to carry the scent of her body with him.

[50] Hagen has brought together from the literature of the subject a number of typical cases of olfactory fetichism, Sexuelle Osphresiologie, 1901, pp. 82 et seq.

[51] Moll’s inquiries among normal persons have also shown that few people are conscious of odor as a sexual attraction. (Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis.  Bd.  I, p. 133.)

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