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The Sexual Life Of The Child

CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION v

PREFACE xi

CONTENTS xiii

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL 1

Subdivisions of the Period of Childhood--The Notion of
Puberty--Methods of Investigation.

Rousseau and Tissot--The Philanthropes--Medical
Literature--The Older Psychology--History of
Civilisation--Studies of Prostitution--Works on
Zoology--Biographies--Belletristic Literature--Erotic
Literature--Studies of Sexual Perversions--Recent Special
Researches--Diaries.

II. THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS--THE SEXUAL IMPULSE 17

The Male Reproductive Organs--Erection--Ejaculation--The
Voluptuous Sensation--Female Reproductive
Organs--Menstruation and Ovulation--Peripheral Processes,
Erection, Ejaculation, and Voluptuous Sensation, in the
Female--The Reproductive Organs in Children.

Components of the Sexual Impulse--Excitement of the Sexual
Impulse--The Sexual Impulse and the Voluptuous Sensation.

III. SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION IN CHILDHOOD 33

Secondary Sexual Characters--First Period of
Childhood--Second Period of Childhood--Psychical Differences
in Children--The Teachings of Experimental Psychology--The
Teachings of Empirical Psychology
(_Erfahrungspsychologie_)--Inborn Character of Sexual
Differences--Pathological Experiences--Criminological
Experiences.

IV. SYMPTOMATOLOGY 50

Erections in the Child--Ejaculation--Origin of
Ejaculation--Voluptuous Sensation.

The Undifferentiated Sexual Impulse--Examples--Phenomena of
Contrectation in the Child--The Object of
Desire--Romanticism--Manifestations of
Love--Jealousy--Love-Letters and
Love-Poems--Vanity--Shame--Differences between Boys and
Girls--Changes in the Object of Desire.

Interdependence of the Processes of Contrectation and
Detumescence--Temporal Relationship between these respective
Processes.

Masturbation--The Voluptuous Sensation--Modes of
Masturbation--Erogenic Zones--Comparison between Boys and
Girls.

Ejaculation as a Consequence of Feelings of
Anxiety--Pollutions--Madame Roland's Description--Individual
Differences--Sexual Phenomena in the Youth of the Lower
Animals.

The Teachings of Castration--Significance of the
Reproductive Glands--Theories.

The Years of Ripening--Retardation of Sexual Development.

V. PATHOLOGY 114

Pathologically Premature Menarche in Girls--Premature
Puberty in Boys--Conditions met with in Dwarfs--Sexual
Parodoxy--Examples.

Sexual Perversions--Premature Development--Congenital
Character of Perversions--Illusions of Memory--Disappearance
of the Perversions of Childhood--The Association
Theory--Criticism of this Theory--Instances in which
Perversions could be traced back to a very early Age--Origin
of Sexual Perversions in Non-Sexual
Dispositions--Homosexuality and Friendship--Sexual Cruelty
and Cruelty of other Kinds--Diagnostic
Difficulties--Exhibitionism--Skatophilia--Hermaphroditism.

VI. ETIOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS 146

Family Tendencies--Abnormal Nervous
System--Race--Climate--Position in Life--Town and
Country--Modern Civilisation--Importance of Congenital
Predisposition--Seduction--Local Stimulation--Chemical
Stimuli--Psychical Stimuli.

Diagnostic Difficulties--Recognition by means of
Observation--Erroneous Diagnoses of Masturbation--The Value
of Physical Signs--Value of a Confidant--Misleading
Statements and Conduct on the part of Children.

Non-Sexual Erections--Non-Sexual Manipulations--Sucking
Movements--Nail-Biting--Imitativeness--Impossibility of any
Definite Demarcation of Sexual Feelings.

VII. IMPORTANCE OF THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILD 179

The Sexual Life and Morbid Hereditary
Predisposition--Hygienic Dangers--The Dangers of
Masturbation in General--Of Masturbation in the
Child--Masturbation without Ejaculation--Exaggerated Views
to be Avoided--Amatory Passion and Suicide--Freud's
Theory--Infectious Diseases.

Ethical Dangers--Masturbation and Ethics--Social
Dangers--Social Degradation of Girls--Seduction of
Girls--

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