psychopathy of love

MEDICO-LEGAL
EXAMINATION
OF THE ABUSES, ABERRATIONS, AND DEMENTIA
of the genital sense

Then gently scan your brither man,

Stiller gentler, sister woman,

Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang,

To step aside is human.

Das Wahre is eine Fackel, aber eine ungeheure; desswegen suchen wir alle blinzend so daran vorbei zu kommen, in Furcht sogar uns zu verbrennen.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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FOREWORD

foreword

A DEFENCE AND EXPLANATION

There are certain subjects of human enquiry before which the intelligence of sane men reels back with horror. This is a healthy sign. The dark corners of the world's life are not for common ken. There are night-mare phantoms of uncanny brains which none but the resolute and trained mind of the Doctor, Lawyer, and Mental Pathologist can face and exorcise without fear of hurt.

The medico-legal enquiries prosecuted in the present volume I have sought to approach in a philosophic spirit.

No sentiment or expression incompatible with the dignity of the medical calling has been allowed to appear. In the presence of deep suffering there can be only profound pity; from the pain-torn features of sorrow, Science seeks to wipe away the tears. Where vulgar minds see only matter for mirth, the surgeon perceives the need of loving care and pitiful commiseration.

Had I not long felt the necessity of the present work I hould hesitated to put it into my publisher's hands.

And this for more than one reason. A man who is bold enough to grapple with studies of this nature is always liable to have his motives misinterpreted by the base and evil-minded.

They will attribute to him desire of gain even though he may have like myself, toiled all his days in the cause of knowledge without hope or wish of pecuniary reward. They will ascribe to him the very passions he aims at analysing because (they will insinuate), "how can a man have such an intimate acquaintance with these abominations if he has not practised them?"

As well impute to the doctor the maladies he diagnoses, or to the magistrate the crimes he unravels, maugre all the tortuous workings of the criminal mind.

These folk remind one of the people who criticise the firemen that plunge into the flames, who find fault with the fishermen that put out for the breaking wreck. They personalise the self-sufficiency of the Pharisee, the wilful blindness of the Levite "who passed by on the other side."

Like my distinguished English confrère Dr William Acton in his work on "Prostitution", "I have little to say in the way of apology for my plain speaking."

The nature of the subject forces this upon me. To have called things here treated of by other than their right names would have been in any writer an absurdity, in me a gross one. My style is, I regret, somewhat rugged. Let it be remembered that I am but a torch-bearer, heralding the way for gallant men who will be fighting boldly long after I shall have fallen out of the march.

In the first two volumes, "Ethnology of the Sixth Sense," and "Genital Laws", we have studied the Anatomy and the Physiology of Normal Love. The present and two succeeding volumes will be wholly devoted to the examination

of its Excesses, Abuses, Perversions, Aberrations, and Crimes.

Following the example of Dr. Krafft-Ebing, we have made a special study of Sexual Inversion.

We have endeavoured above all to give a summary in clear form and within every body's capacity of the remarkable studies of our fellow-countrymen Drs Ball, Charcot, Chevalier, Cullerier, Lacassagne, Lasvigne, E. Laurent, Laupts, Luiz, Legrain, Magnan, Moreau (of Tours), Pichon, Thoinot, and of the learned foreigners, Moll, Krafft Ebing, Raffalovitch, Tarnowsky, and Westphal. It cannot be denied that the labours of the above named authors have resulted in a greater amount of knowledge in this branch of medical science during the last ten years than it has had since the beginning of the century.

We shall continue in this volume to indicate the sources from which we have borrowed, and to support our theories strongly by numerous examples. When the facts speak for themselves, lengthy digressions are unnecessary in a work, intended, as this is, for the diffusion of scientific knowledge.

As regards the wording of this important part of our work, we have adopted as our rule the opinions of the following authors.

"No physical or moral distress, no wound however corrupted it may be, ought to frighten the devotee of the science of man, and the sacred ministry of medicine, obliging him to behold everything allows him also to say everything." (Tardieu.)

"It is wrong for us during the greater part of time to handle the questions which relate to the instinct of reproduction with timidity and false shame, and to surround them with reticence and mystery. Matters relating to sexual life ought to be studied without the introduction of moral prepossessions or of preconceived ideas. False shame is as hateful as frivolity. It is a matter of pressing concern to rid ourself of the old prejudice that we

"sully our pens" by touching upon facts of this class. Of what use is it to break out into varied cries of indignant conscience, etc......."

"It is necessary at all costs to replace this old and timorous scientific baggage by a deep and calm and serene study, in which analysis will certainly succeed better than big words. To put aside our moral esthetic or religious personality, to regard facts of this nature merely as natural phenomena, with impartiality and a certain elevation of mind, is the true scientific spirit." (Dr L. Chevalier.)

"It is the sad privilege of medicine and especially of a mad-doctor to be compelled to see only the reverse side of life; human weakness and misery. In its heavy task it finds however a consolation; it shows that unhealthy dispositions have given birth to all the facts which may offend the moral and esthetic sense; and in this there is something to reassure moralists. Moreover it vindicates human honour before the judgment of morality, and the honour of individuals arraigned before justice and public opinion. Besides in applying itself to these researches, it only accomplishes a duty. To seek for truth is the supreme object of all human knowledge." (Dr Krafft Ebing.)

If I own I have not relied upon my observations only but quoted largely from the works of medical men, it is because I deemed it important for them to share the responsibility of many statements and conclusions which I could have abundantly established by facts which have come under my personal cognisance.

Hence I would fain hope that the professional Expert who does me the honour of perusing the following pages will not do so without considerable profit.

Here the Magistrate will find the secret explanation of many a painful case which has set Society by the ears.

The Psychiatrist will discover fresh problems which may prove fruitful of suggestion, and aid in working out he tangled threads of warped passions.

The Libertine into whose hands the work may fall, will may-hap give pause even on the brink of the precipice.

Lastly, the Advocate who practises in the Divorce, or Criminal, courts will here stumble across the basis for many valuable arguments, — nay more, "he will learn," as Dr Acton has wisely hinted, "how, in many cases of guilt, fair cause may be shown for a culprit's committal to a Lunatic Asylum instead of to a Prison"

Dr Jacobus X...

MEUDON

(Seine)

FRANCE

may, 1900.

ANALYTICAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS

TO

MEDICO-LEGAL STUDIES

OF THE

ABUSES, ABERRATIONS, AND DEMENTIA
OF THE GENITAL SENSE

Foreword.

CHAPTER I

Factors which constitute Human Love.

CHAPTER II

Genital Excesses.

Influence of Temperament upon Love. — The Erotic Temperament. — Various observations on the Erotic temperament. — The Marquis de Sombreuse. — A London Minotaur. — Precocious Sexual Instinct. — Possibility of a little boy's violating a young girl. — Prolongation of the Sexual Instinct. — The Old Man's Morbid Love. — Jean Richepin's Poem "Pour faire peur au Chat". — Genesic Excitations provoked by various Affections (Locomotor Ataxy. Mania Phthisis. Chorea). — Impotence or Sexual Anæesthesia, 1st Congenital, 2nd Acquired. Remarkable Observations.

CHAPTER III

Genital Abuses

Priapism. — Observations on the various causes of Priapism. — Satyriasis. — Descriptions of Satyriasis, after Moreau. — Causes of Satyriasis. — Different Observations on Satyriasis. — Nymphomania. — Its Causes. — The Three Phases of Nymphomania, after Moreau. — Classification of Professor Thoinot. — Numerous Instances of Different bases of Nymphomania. — Exclusive Nymphomaniac Love, by Thoinot. — Observation Relating to an Imbecile Nymphomaniac.

CHAPTER IV

Genital Abuses (continued).
On Onanism in general.

Definition of Onanism of Mauby Souillet. — Forms and processes of Genital Pollution in Man. — Classification by Garnier. — Solitary Pollution. — Pollution in Common. — Observations on Pollution, Personal and in Common. — Manual Pollution. — Rubbings and Compression of the Penis on or in any body. — Instances of Pollution through Compression of the Penis — through Rubbing of the Penis. — Shape of the Penis revealing the mode employed for Masturbation. — Pollution by tickling of the gland with the end of the fingers. — Pollution by the introduction of the Penis into some Body, or by a Constrictory Band round the Penis. — Observations on Pollution relating to these different ways. — Pollution by special movements of the Body or by general Shock. — Observations on Pollution by Hanging. — Pollution by the Introduction of Foreign Bodies into the Canal of the Urethra. — Incomplete Pollution. — Various Instances. — Pollution with manœuvres on the neighbouring Organs, principally the Scrotum and Rectum. (The Postilion of Marseille and the Commissionary's Hat). — Posterior Pollution. — This is the Domain of Pederasty. — Curious case of Posterior Pollution. — The Height of Ingratitude.

CHAPTER V

Genital Abuses (continued).
Causes, Signs, and Consequences of Onanism in Man.

Causes of Onanism in Man. — Table of Classification of the causes of Onanism. — Different opinions upon the causes of Onanism. — Selected Observations on Pollution relating to the causes of

Onanism. — Syndromes and Signs of Onanism in Man. — Comparison of the Effects of Coition with those of Onanism. — Diseases produced or maintained by Pollution. — Local and adjacent Affections. — General Affections. — Consequences to the other organic apparatus. — Observations upon Pouillet's Classification. — The Consequences of Onanism and Poetry. — Selected Observations on Pollutions, relating to the Consequences of Onanism.

CHAPTER VI

Genital Abuses (continued).
Onanism in Woman.

Frequency of Onanism in Women. — Classification of the forms of Feminine Onanism. — Vaginal Masturbation. — Observations relating to various Instruments extracted from the Vaginas of Onanists. — A. Vagino-uterine Masturbation. — B. Clitoridian Masturbation. — Observations on Clitoridian Masturbation. — C. Urethral Masturbation. — Observations on Urethral Masturbation. — Causes of Onanism in Women. — A. Physical Causes. — B. Social Causes. — C. Moral and Intellectual Causes. — Observations relating to the causes of Feminine Onanism. — The Godmichès of the Great Ladies of the French Court. — Syndromes and Signs of Masturbation. — Consequences of Onanism in Women. — Affections resulting from Masturbatory Manœuvres in Women. — A. Local and adjacent. — B. General. — Observations relating to the Consequences of Onanism. — Treatment of Onanism in Women.

CHAPTER VII

Genital Aberrations.
Exhibitionism.

Definition of Exhibitionism. — Characteristics of Exhibitionism. — A. Exhibitionists, weak in mind (Imbeciles, Idiots). — Observations relating to this Type. — B. General Paralytics. — Observations relating to this Type. — C. Senile and Alcoholic Dementia. — Different Kinds of Delirium. — Observations relating to Senile Dementia. — Observations relating to cases of Alcoholic Delirium and other various Deliria. — A case of Lypomania. — D. Epilepsy. Observations relating to this Type. — E. Degenerates. — Observations. — Exhibitionists. — Rubbers. — Observations relating to this type.

CHAPTER VIII

Genital Aberrations (continued).
Fetishism

Definition of Fetishism. — Origin of Fetishism. — Fetish Love, after E. Laurent. — General Characteristics of Fetishism. — Varieties of the Fetish Sexual Act. — Diversity of Fetishes. — Fetishism of the Eyes. — Observations. — Fetishism of the Hand. — Observations. — Fetishism of the Ear and Mouth. — Fetishism of Opulent Figures. — Fetishism of Physical Defects. — Aberrations. — Fetishism of the Hair. — Observations. — Handlers, rubbers, and those who cut off plaits of hair (after Macé). — Fetishism of the Foot. — Observations. — Fetishism of the Odor Foemina. — Observations. — Fetishism of the Voice. — Observations.

CHAPTER IX

Genital Aberrations (continued).
Azoophilism.

Definitions of Azoophilism. — Men who are in love with women's aprons, petticoats, and under-linen. — Observations. Admirers of pockethanderchiefs. — Observations. Fetishism and azoophilism of homo-sexual Love. — Observations. Men who are in love with the shoe. — Observations. Men who are in love with Fabrics. — Observations. Cutters of dresses, mantles and furs. — Burners and Defilers of dresses. — Azoophilists guilty of outrages against Public Decency. — Men who are in love with statues.

CHAPTER X

Genital Aberrations (continued).
Necrophily.

Definition of Necrophily. — General Characteristics of Necrophily. — Is Necrophily a special aberration? — Contradictory opinions of Thoinot and Krafft-Ebing. — A. Viciously depraved Necrophilists. Observations. — The Convicts who violated Corpses. — B. Fetish Necrophilists. Observations. — C. Sadist Necrophilists. Observations. — The son who assassinated his Mother and violated her Corpse. — The Kanaka Necrophilists of New Caledonia. — The Arab, Bechir. — Louis, the Kanaka Interpreter.

CHAPTER XI

Genital Aberration (continued). Bestiality.

Definition of Bestiality. — Is Bestiality a Depravation or an Aberration of the Mind? — Bestiality is, as the case may be, either a vicious Depravation or a mental Aberration.

A. Bestiality as a vice, through Depravation or Perversity. — Bestiality permitted to the Mahometans as a Hygienic measure. Bestiality in Ancient times. Instances. — Pasiphae and the Bull. — The Mysteries of the Bona Dea. — The Satyr and the She-Goat. — The Sacred He-goat and the Woman. — Apuleius' Golden Ass. — Bestiality a vice of our times. — Instances. Men and Dogs. — Curious Observations. — Annamite boy pederated by a dog. — Peasant pederated by a bull. — Men copulating with dogs and bitches. — Unpublished Observations. — Women and Dogs. — Men and She-Goats. — Men, Mares, and She-Asses. — The sweet-hearts of the Regiment. — The Fellator of Mraes. — Men and Fowls. — Observations. — The Chinese Duck trick.

B. Bestiality a Disease, through Degeneracy or any other mental Cause. — Observations with comments by Thoinot. — Bestiality in the Brothels of Paris.

CHAPTER XII

Genital Madness.
Sadism.

Definition of Sadism. — Antiquity of Sadism. — Sadism exists principally among Men. — Causes of Sadism. — Reason of the greater frequency of Sadism among Men. — Acquired Sadism and Congenital Sadism. — Classification of Sadists. — Symptomatic and Etiological Elements of Sadism. — Relations of the Sadic act with the Sexual Life. — Victims of Sadic Cruelty. — Greater Sadics. — A. Innate. — B. Acquired. — The Law of Greater Sadism. — Observations on Greater Innate Sadics (Andreas, Beschel, Philippe, Grassi, Menesclou, Alton, The Ripper of Whitechapel, Verzeni, Lepage, etc.)

The political and military Life of Gilles de Rays, called Blue-beard. — Nature of the Sadic crimes committed by Gilles de Rays. — Depositions of his accomplices, Henriet and Fonton. — The guilty man's Confessions. — Gilles de Rays' Sadism, was it innate or acquired? Gilles de Rays was diseased, a Madman and not a Monster. — The Violator-Assassin Blanchard. — Murder committed by two Pederasts upon a young boy aged three-and-a-half. — Six

curious observations relating to innate Sadists and Greater acquired Sadists. — Unpublished cases of Sadism relating to the Annamite Races. — Their natural Cruelty. — Political sadists during the Insurrection in Chocin-China in 1867. — Sadic and Pederastic vengeance inflicted on a Pirate Chief. — Case of Erotic Mutilation through Pederastic Jealousy. — Sadic Murder of a European for the sake of Gain.

CHAPTER XIII

Genital Madness.
Sadism (continued).

Lesser Sadics. — Different Categories. — Prickers of Girls. — Observations. — Prickers of Buttocks. — Observations. — The Cutter of Ears. — The Cutter of Skin. — The Sadist Cutter of Fingers. — The Sadist Pincher of Flesh. — The Flagellators. — Observations on Flagellators. — Symbolic Sadism. — Ideal Sadism. — Inclination to cover Women with Filth. — Man who urinated upon Women. — Stercoraires. — Stercoraires in the Paris Brothels. — Sadists and Sodomists. — Mixoscopists or Tupers. — The Mixoscopis of Paris. — Observations by Leo Taxil, Coffignon, and Mace. — A Humane Aphorism. — Classification of Sadists. — Peepers through Holes. — The Provincial and the Pastry-cook. — The Sauce-pan Band. — The Peepers of the Champs-Elysées. — The Magic Lantern.

CHAPTER XIV

Genital Madness.
Sadism (completion).

Sadism in the Woman. — Causes of the Rarity of Sadism in the Woman. — Observations of different cases of Feminine Sadism. — Sadism of Catherine de Médicis. — Queen Catherine and the Shoemaker's big Penis. — Sadism of Pa-ki, Mistress of the Chinese Emperor Cheou-Sin. — Sadism of a Gay Woman before the Guillotine. — Sadic Acts upon Animals. — Identity of Bestial and Human Sadism. — Various Observations of Sadic Acts upon Animals. — Observations upon a case of Bestial Sadism co-existent with Human Sadism and Pederasty.

CHAPTER XV

Genital Madness (continued).
Masochism.

Definition of Masochism. — Symptomatology and Etiology of Masochism. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Masochist. — Frequency of Masochism. — Grouping of Masochists into three distinct Categories. — A. Masochists of the 1st Category. — Three Observations regarding them. — B. Masochists of the 2nd Category. — Observations regarding this category. — C. Masochists of the 3rd Category. — Observations regarding them. — Symbolic Masochism. — Observations upon Symbolic Masochism. — Masochism complicated with Sadism. — Observations. — Latent Masochism. — Filthy acts having for their object Sexual Satisfaction. — Masochism complicated with Sexual Inversion. — Masochism in the Woman.

CHAPTER XVI

Genital Madness (continued).
Erotomania.

Definition of Erotomania. — Don Quixotte and Dulcinea. — Epilepsy. — Observations relating to Epileptics committing abnormal Sexual Acts. — Hysteria. — Averred Eroticism of Epileptic Women. — Remarkable cases of Hysteria. — The Bordeaux Scandal. — Madame la Baronne. — Mental Condition of Hysterical Women. — Hysterical Men. — Various forms of Mental Alienation connected with the Genito-Sexual Function. — Observations relating to various cases of Mental Alienation. — The Insanity of Puberty. — Insanity of the Menopause. — Utero-ovarian Insanity. — Post-Connubial Insanity. — Relation of Mental Alienation to Pregnancy and the Menses. — Obscenities of Insane Females and Criminal Lunatics.

CHAPTER I

FACTORS WHICH CONSTITUTE

HUMAN LOVE

MEDICO-LEGAL

EXAMINATION

OF THE ABUSES OF THE GENITAL SENSE

CHAPTER I

FACTORS WHICH CONSTITUTE HUMAN LOVE

The desire for connection is the basis of human love. — Physical element of human love. — Justification for the title of the Volume (Genital Excesses. Abuses. Perversions. Aberrations, and Follies). — Genital Perversions, by Doctor Pichon. — Classification of the anomalies of the sexual instinct by Magnan. — 1st Group: The Spinal. 2nd Group: The posterior Spinal cerebral. — 3rd Group: The anterior Spinal Cerebral. — 4th Group. The atnerior cerebral of psychic. — Sexual anomalies are but the pathological transformations of the sexual instinct. — Dr Legrain's theories. — Uselessness of Classifications. — Relation of genital perversions to madness. — Grouping of the various Sexual Anomalies. — A. Excesses. — B. Genital Abuses. — C. Genital Perversions. — D. Genital Perversions. — E. Genital Follies. — Mental degeneracy is the basis on which a number of sexual perversions are developed. — A few words on Mental Degeneracy.

Factors which constitute Human Love.

We have seen in the First Volume that the foundation of love, among men as well as among all animals, was physiological love, id est carnal copulation, the natural

faction of the instinct of reproduction. We have laid down this law of the sexual instinct in accordance with Pillaux, and demonstrated with him that when the need for coition makes itself felt, the genital centre in man (or that which is homologous to it in the inferior species) enters on the stage and supplies to the genital organs the erethismus necessary for the accomplishment of the sexual act. The venereal orgasm then translates itself through a sensation of comfort, in harmony with the accomplishment of such an important function, a comfort which is translated into pleasure among the superior and perhaps among the inferior animals also. But in the case of man matters become complicated, for then the brain comes into play. It tries to play its part in the act of reproduction, and in proportion as the brain is developed, concurrently with civilization, its part becomes more and more preponderant. The voluptuous sensation of the act becomes precise, and is doubled by a psychic sensation. Reproduction no longer has the mere brutality of the contact and friction of the two epidermises. There is a kind of search for certain congruities, which expresses itself by the choice and the selection of the participators in the sexual act.

Among the women amongst whom he lives, or whom he meets for the first time, all of whom are able to satisfy his desire for copulation, the man distinguishes one in particular, whose possession he seeks for more specially, and the same phenomenon in the woman. The determining motives are connected with the physical beauty and the moral and intellectual qualities of the subject.

The great variety which results from the difference of race, and of civilization in particular, can be understood. The Hottentot Venus, with her enormous posteriors, would make no impression upon the heart of an intellectual resident in the Boulevard des Italiens, and the latter with his

spare body, his puny genital organs, his bald head, his smooth face, his eye-glass and his stand-up collar, would give no pleasure to a robust negress with lusty charms and an ample and lustful vulva.

Thus two elements: the one physical, relating to sexuality only, and beauty; and the psychical, determining the choice of the woman by the man and of the man by the woman, enter into the formation of human love. But it is clear that the starting-point is the voluptuous sensation of physiological love, by which is meant that the basis of human love is the desire of coition, but that at the same time a desire for psychical possession comes and mingles with the desire for union, which causes the man to demand of her whom he has chosen that she should abandon to him her thoughts and her whole psychical being at the same time as her body. "The desire for copulation which, we repeat, is the basis, acts upon us exactly in the same way as on the animals, and is, as it is with them, purely instinctive." (Pillaux.)

The desire for copulation is the basis of human love. It is based on the voluptuous sensation which coition causes the man and woman to feel, a sensation studied in considerable detail in the First Volume. It is clear that the adult who has already copulated retains from the coition the remembrance of a keen sentiment of pleasure, and certainly this sentiment will induce him to repeat the copulation later on.

Let us mention, however, after Pillaux, that the individuals who are virgins, without having any notion of the pleasure, are urged by instinct to have connection. The male-virgin seeks for the maid. He is sometimes (but not always) awkward in the accomplishment of the act.