Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. II, Sexual inversion / by Havelock Ellis.
- Havelock Ellis
- Date:
- [1915], ©1915
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![case. (Niceforo, who believes that inversion may develop out of mastur¬ bation, considers that dreams of masturbation by association of ideas may take on an inverted character [Le Psicopatie Sessuale, 1897, pp. 35, 69] ; this, however, must be rare, and will not account for most of the dreams in question.) Nacke and Colin Scott, some years ago, independently referred to cases in which normal persons were liable to homosexual dreams, and Fere (Revue de Medecine, Dec., 1898) referred to a man who had a horror of women, but appeared only to manifest homosexuality in his dreams. Nacke (Archiv fur Kriminalanthropologie, 1907, Heft 1, 2) calls dreams which represent a reaction of opposition to the dreamer’s ordinary life “contrast dreams.” Hirschfeld, who accepts Nacke’s “con¬ trast dreams” in relation to homosexuality, considers that they indicate a latent bisexuality. We may admit this is so, in the same sense in which a complementary color image called up by another color indicates the possibility of perceiving that color. In most cases, however, it seems to me that homosexual dreams in normal persons may be simply ex¬ plained as due to the ordinary confusion and transition of dream imagery. (See Ellis, The World of Dreams, especially ch. ii.) Methods of Sexual Relationship.—The exact mode in which an inverted instinct finds satisfaction is frequently of impor¬ tance from the medicolegal standpoint;1 from a psychological standpoint it is of minor significance, being chiefly of interest as showing the degree to which the individual has departed from the instinctive feelings of his normal fellow-beings. Taking 57 inverted men of whom I have definite knowl¬ edge, I find that 12, restrained by moral or other considerations, have never had any physical relationship with their own sex. In some 22 cases the sexual relationship rarely goes beyond close physical contact and fondling, or at most mutual masturbation and intercrural intercourse. In 10 or 11 cases fellatio (oral excitation)—frequently in addition to some form of mutual masturbation, and usually, though not always, as the active agency—is the form preferred. In 14 cases, actual pedicatio2— 1 See Thoinot and Weysse, Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Of¬ fenses, pp. 165, 291, etc. 2 Pedicatio (or pwdicatio) is the most generally accepted technical term for the sodomitical intromission of the penis into the anus. It is usually derived from the Greek pais (boy), but some authorities have derived it from pedex or podex (anus). The terms](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3001010x_0302.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
