Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Psychopathia Sexualis: The Classic Study of Deviant Sex

PSYCHOPATHIA

SEXUALIS

PSYCHOPATHIA

SEXUALIS

THE CLASSIC STUDY OF DEVIANT SEX

RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING

Translated by Franklin S. Klaf, M.D., M.P.H.

Introduction by Joseph LoPiccolo, Ph.D.

Chairman, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri

Foreword by Daniel Blain, M.D., FACP, FAPA

Former Medical Director, American Psychiatric Institution

Translation and Introduction copyright 1965 by Franklin S. Klaf Foreword copyright 1965 by Stein and Day, Incorporated Introduction to the Arcade Edition copyright 2011 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

ISBN: 978-1-61145-050-7

Printed in the United States of America

by Joseph LoPiccolo, Ph.D.

by Franklin S. Klaf, M.D., M.P.H.

by Daniel Blain, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.P.A.

Force of sexual instinct, 1Sexual instinct the basis of ethical sentiments, 1Love as a passion, 1Historical development of sexual life, 2Chastity, 2Christianity, 2Monogamy, 2Position of woman in Islam, 3Sensuality and morality, 3Cultural demoralization of sexual life, 3Episodes of the moral decay of nations, 3Development of sexual desire; puberty, 4Sensuality and religious fanaticism, 4Relation between religious and sexual domains, 5Sensuality and art, 6Idealization of first love, 7True love, 7Sentimentality, 7Platonic love, 8Love and Friendship, 8Difference between the love of the man and that of the woman, 8Celibacy, 9Adultery, 9Matrimony, 10Fondness of dress, 10Facts of physiological fetichism, 11Religious and erotic fetichism, 11Hair, hand, foot of the female as fetiches, 13Eye, smell, voice, psychical qualities as fetich, 13.

Puberty, 16Time limit of sexual life, 16Sexual instinct, 17Localization, 17Physiological development of sexual life, 17Erections: Centre of erection, 18Sphere of sexualitv and olfaction, 19Flagellation as a stimulant for sexual life, 22Sect of flagellants, 22Flagellum Salutis of Paulini, 23Erogenous (hyperaesthetic) zones, 24Control of sexual instinct, 25Coitus, 26Ejaculation, 26.

Primary and secondary sexual characteristics, 28Psychical characteristics, 28Differentiation of sexes, 28Gynecomasty, 29Development of sexual type, 29Eunuchs, 30.

Frequency and importance of pathological manifestations, 32Schedule of sexual neuroses, 32Influences stimulating the erectile tissues, 33Paralysis of the erectile tissues, 34Temporary impotence, 34Neurosis of the nerve centres of ejaculation, 34Neuroses produced by cerebral causes, 34Paradoxic i.e., sexual instinct outside the period of anatomical-physiological processes, 36Sexual instinct in early childhood, 36Sexual instinct reappearing in old age, 37Sexual perversions in seniles due to impotence or dementia, 37Anaesthesia sexualis, i.e., absence of sexual instinct, 40congenital, 40acquired, 45Hyperaesthesia, i.e., pathologically exaggerated sexual instinct, 46Conditions and manifestations of this anomaly, 46Paraesthesia or perversion of the sexual instinct, 52Perversion and perversity, 52Sadism, an attempted explanation of sadism, 53Sadistic lust murder, 58Anthropophagy, 63Mutilation of corpses, 65Maltreatment of women by cutting or flogging, etc., 69Defilement of female persons, 74Symbolic sadism, 77Ideal sadism, 78Sadism practiced on any other object, 80Flogging of boys, 80Sadistic acts on animals, 82Sadism in woman, 85Masochism, 86Essence and clinical manifestations of masochism, 86Maltreatment and humiliation invited for the purpose of sexual gratification, 88Passive flagellation and its relation to masochism, 93Frequency and practices of masochism, 99Symbolic masochism, 106Ideal masochism, 107Jean Jacques Rousseau, 110Masochism in scientific and belletristical literature, 112Latent masochism, 114Shoe and foot fetichism, 123Coprolag nia, 123Masochism in woman, 130An attempted explanation of masochism, 133Sexual bondage, 134Masochism and sadism, 140Fetichism, definition of, 143Cases in which the fetich is a part of the female body, 147Hand fetichism, 147Bodily defects as fetiches, 153Hair fetichism, 157Hair despoilers, 158The fetich is a part of female attire, 162Mania for (theft of) female handkerchiefs, 167Shoe fetichism, 170The fetich consists of some special fabric, 176Fur, silk, velvet, gloves, roses, 177Beast fetichism, 185Antipathic sexual instinct, 186Acquired sexual inversion in either sex, 188Neurotic taint a condition of antipathic sexual instinct, 190Grades of acquired perversion, 190Simple inversion of sexual instinct, 190Eviration and defemination, 195Insanity among the Scythians, 199Mujerados, 199Transition to change of sex delusion, 200Delusion of sexual change, 216Congenital antipathic sexuality, 221Various clinical forms thereof, 221General symptoms, 223Attempted explanation of this anomaly, 224Congenital antipathic sexuality in the male, 230Psychical hermaphroditism, 230Homosexuality, 240Homosexuals, 240Ejfemination, 253Hermaphroditism, 258Congenital antipathic sexuality in the female, 262Complications of antipathic sexual instinct, 291Diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of sexual inversion, 295.

The manifestations of pathological sexual life in the various forms and conditions of mental disturbance, 308Inhibition of psychical development, 308Acquired mental debility, 310Dementia following psychosis or apoplexy, 311Or injuries to the head, 311Or syphilis, 312General paresis, 312Epilepsy, 313Periodical insanity, 319Psychopathia sexualis periodica, 320Mania, 321Symptoms of sexual excitement in maniacs, 321Satyriasis and nymphomania, 322Chronic satyriasis and nymphomania, 325Melancholia, 329Hysteria, 329Paranoia, 330.

Sexual crimes endanger the common weal, 333On the increase, 333Probable causes, 334Clinical researches, 335Sexual crimes not properly understood by the law profession, 335Points for the proper judgment of sexual crimes, 335Conditions for the cessation of responsibility, 336Points for the psychopathological importance of sexual crimes, 336Sexual crimes classified, 336Exhibitionists, 337Frotteurs, 349Defilers of statues, 351Rape and lust murder, 351Bodily injury, violation of things, cruelty to animals caused by sadism, 356Masochism and sexual bondage, 361Bodily injury, robbery, theft emanating from fetichism, 363Notes on the question of responsibility in sexual offenses caused by delusions, 367Immorality with persons under the age of fourteen, 369Non-psychopathological cases, 369Psychopathological cases, 370Unnatural abuse, 374Violation of animals, sodomy, bestiality, 374Zooer-asty, 376Unnatural sexual relations with persons of the same sex, pederasty, 381In relation to sexual inversion, 382Necessity to distinguish between pathological and normal conditions of pederasty, 382Forensic opinion on congenital sexual inversion and when pathologically acquired,, 382Letter from a homosexual, 383Reasons why legal proceedings against homosexual acts should be stopped, 386Cultivated pederasty (not pathological), 391Causes of the vice, 391Social life of pederasts, 392A woman-hater's ball in Berlin, 394Various categories of male-loving men, 396