The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1920]
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Credit: The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the performance of certain kinds of ascetic penance. All of these excitants, and many others, may stir sex emotion of a definite and palpable kind in normal, refined, and not exceptionally libidinous, persons of both sexes. Some of the excitants are more powerful with one sex than with the other. Pain is very closely associated with the sex instinct in many women. Without any deviation from strict normality, a large number of women are slightly masochistic. That is to say they are gratified by the eager aggressiveness of man in love, by vehemence, and a degree of roughness. Some imaginative and refined women, when deeply in love, delight in masculine mastery, and even court absolute subjection. Others, though this is rarer, like to inflict a certain amount of pain upon the beloved one. I cannot enter here into a lengthy discussion upon the unquestioned association of pain and pleasure. It is enough to say that the range of erotic idiosyncrasy is much wider in women than in men, and that which is detestable to one woman sym¬ bolises for another the tenderest psychic emotions. Husbands in the mass are accustomed to regard sexual irresponsiveness in
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