Sexual anomalies and perversions : physical and psychological development and treatment a textbook for students, psychologists, criminologists, probation officers, judges, and educationists / a summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld ; compiled as a humble memorial by his pupils.

  • Hirschfeld, Magnus, 1868-1935.
Date:
[between 1935 and 1939?]
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Credit: Sexual anomalies and perversions : physical and psychological development and treatment a textbook for students, psychologists, criminologists, probation officers, judges, and educationists / a summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld ; compiled as a humble memorial by his pupils. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sist the impulse to gaze after every woman possessing a good figure and mentally caress her buttocks. At clinical demonstrations, when I saw buttocks I became similarly excited. I attach considerable im- portance to facial beauty, yet even an ugly girl, unless she is down- right repulsive, excites me far more if her build is after my taste than a thin girl with a beautiful face. As an undergraduate in Leipzig I had several affairs. I was, and still am, extraordinarily virile, and met my mistress for the time being from two or four times per week, performing the sexual act up to four times in one night. In the intervals I nevertheless masturbated, though not very often, especially when I was reading an exciting book. With one of the girls in Leipzig my intercourse was only nor- mal at the outset. I noticed after a short while that the girl, who was 20 years of age, became only slightly excited during the sexual act, even when it lasted long, but became intensely excited when I rubbed her clitoris. As a result of this discovery I began to carry on with her mutual masturbation, and nothing else. The same girl one day ex- pressed the wish to carry out fellatio on me, but fearing that my hypospadia, slight as it was, might nauseate her, I did not agree to this. One day a colleague told me that he preferred cunnilinctus to all other sexual pleasures. He described this act in such alluring terms and, in particular, painted the woman's exaltation in such a drastically vivid manner, that I was immediately seized with curiosity and a desire to try this form of sexual intercourse, which had been unknown to me until then. Nevertheless, when I first had an opportunity to make the attempt, thought of the obscenity of the act prevented me from doing so. Finally, a prostitute persuaded me. The woman was pretty, and full of passion and erotic cunning. She had fitted a mirror on the ceiling, so that she might enjoy with her eyes as well. She first of all asked me to bite her in the armpit, an action I have never heard of, either before or since, as a means of producing sexual excitement. But I complied with her request, and noticed undoubted signs of ex- citement in her. Then she asked me whether I had ever practiced cunnilinctus, and when I replied in the negative she said she would teach me—she had already taught many other students. I made the attempt, but had to stop soon, as I was beginning to feel sick. In the end I performed the normal sexual act. Later, however, I trained myself, so to speak, in the art of cunni- linctus. As I observed in the course of further attempts how tremen-