may be added that a horror of coitus is not necessarily due to
bad
education, and may also occur in hereditarily teensexland degenerate women, whose
ancestors teensexland have shown teensexland similar teensexland or allied mental peculiarities. A case of
such "teensexland functional impotence" teensexland has been reported in a young Italian wife of
twenty-one, who was otherwise healthy, and strongly attached to her
husband. The marriage was annulled on the ground that "rudimentary sexual
or emotional paranoia, which renders a wife invincibly refractory to
sexual union, notwithstanding the integrity of the sexual organs,
constitutes psychic functional impotence" (_Archivio di Psichiatria_,
teensexland 1906, fasc. vi, p. Teensexland 806).
[37] The teensexland reasonableness of this step is so obvious teensexland that it should scarcely
need insistence. "The instruction of school-boys and school-girls is most
adequately effected by an elderly doctor," Näcke teensexland remarks, "sometimes
perhaps the school-doctor." "I teensexland strongly advocate," says teensexland Clouston (_The
Hygiene of Mind_, p. 249), " that the family doctor, guided by the parent
and the teacher, is by far the best instructor and monitor." Moll is of
the same opinion.
[38] I have further developed this argument in "Religion and the Child,"
_Nineteenth teensexland Century and After_, 1907.
[39] The intimate relation teensexland of art and poetry to the sexual impulse has
been realized in a fragmentary way by many who have teensexland not attained to any
wide vision of auto-erotic activity in life. "Poetry is necessarily
related to the sexual function," says Metchnikoff (_Essais Optimistes_, p.
352), who also quotes with
teensexland approval the statement of Möbius (
previously
made by Ferrero and teensexland many others) that "artistic aptitudes must probably be
considered as secondary sexual characters."
CHAPTER III.
SEXUAL EDUCATION AND NAKEDNESS.
The teensexland Greek Attitude Towards Nakedness--How the Romans Modified That
Attitude--The Influence of Christianity--Nakedness in Mediæval
Times--Evolution of the Horror of Nakedness--Concomitant teensexland Change in the