The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson.

  • Benjamin Tarnowski
Date:
1898
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Credit: The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    company that lie can with impunity satisfy his abnormal taste, and there only meet with sympathy for liis morbid condition and encouragement in his vice. Besides an active pederast recognizes more easily than does a normal person a passive pederast by his walk, by bis bearing, by bis gestures and his speech, his glances, etc. On bis part the Cynede easily recognizes by the tone of bis voice1 with whom be lias to do. That is why pederasts in genera] become easily acquainted with one another and to some extent form societies, in which all the types of the foregoing sexual aberrations meet together. Such a community excites the morbid im- pulses, develops them to their utmost intensity and encourages the most unbridled licentious- ness. Vicious habits join to morbid predis- positions, and the imagination is sharpened by the discovery of its most astounding creations, which to a sane being appear in- conceivable and are fearful in their cynicism. With tins the characteristics of the morbid types become blended and their peculiarities equalize each other; tbe Cynede learns to become an active pederast on occasion, and tbe latter sometimes takes the passive part. The venal pederastic prostitutes most fre-