Anthropological studies in the strange sexual practises of all races in all ages : ancient and modern, oriental and occidental, primitive and civilized / by Iwan Bloch.

  • Iwan Bloch
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1933
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Credit: Anthropological studies in the strange sexual practises of all races in all ages : ancient and modern, oriental and occidental, primitive and civilized / by Iwan Bloch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more reason for renunciation than has the dioning' or the woman.* Kautzner, Cramer, and Hoche also make a similar demand of the homosexuals.** Wonders can be accomplished by a good prophylaxis, which naturally must begin in childhood.f All harmful influences must be kept away. There must be no packing-together of persons of the same sex; no mutual onanism, no contact with sexually perverse individuals, no access to obscene books and pictures and places of ill repute. Every affectation in dress and deportment must be checked. Self-control must be developed. At puberty the more powerfully stirring sexual impulses should be diverted by physical exercise, not intensified by mental strain and long periods of sitting still. Casually, grad- ually, they must be directed toward the natural object of them, the opposite sex. More will be accomplished by sane, reasonable explanation than by austerity and evasion, or, worse yet, euphemistic, veiled hints at the facts of vita sexualis. All sexual anomalies appearing in childhood, even if they have been acquired through external seduction, should be treated, for pedagogic and therapeutic reasons, as illnesses which can be cured only by the most circumspect and careful therapy. The quintes- sence of every regimen directed at the regulation of the sex impulse is that by every means the impulse may be prevented from engrossing the person and becoming the be-all and end- all of life. *Ara spei, p. 76. **Op. cit. See also the very fine studies of A. Eulenburg in disproof of the harmful effects of sexual abstinence. Op. cit., pp. 14-15. fA patient of Krafft-Ebing's believes that even congenital homo- sexuality can be cured by suggestion. Von Krafft-Ebing, op. cit., p. 279.
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