Sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki.

  • Victor G. Vecki von Gyurkovechky
Date:
1915
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Credit: Sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    incomprehensible that there should be physi¬ cians who almost absolutely deny the existence of impotence.”1 Every being instinctively longs for enjoyment. The desire for enjoyment is certainly justified, and only hypocrites or people with limited views of things in general can demand that man shall work and fulfil duties without the moments of gladness and gratification that are so scarce in comparison to the bitterness of life. “La nature veut que nous jouissions.”2 Sensual love and the so-called ideal love, which grows out of it, but which is quite an impossibility where there is no sexual vigor, are foremost among the few joys and gratifications. Those who are seeking help for their impotence are surely very pitiable subjects; they feel themselves unutterably unhappy, and, in most cases, entertain thoughts of suicide, though they seldom have the necessary courage to carry them out. A good man cannot refuse his assistance to them. It cannot be the physician’s task to question whether one or an¬ other of them owes his infirmity to his own or some¬ body else’s fault. Nor can it be expected from the medical man that he should investigate what may be the object or aim of any patient who is endeavoring to recover his virility. The physician has to keep in view only one object, that he is in the presence of an unfortunate person whom he must help if he can. So much for the determining of my standpoint 1 Lionel S. Beale, Our Morality. London, 1887, p. 34. 2 Renan, L’abbesse de Jouarre. Paris, 1886, p. 29.
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