Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 | Page 2

The Psychology of Tickling.
Laughter. Laughter as a Kind of Detumescence. The Sexual
Relationships of Itching. The Pleasure of Tickling. Its Decrease with
Age and Sexual Activity.
III.
The Secondary Sexual Skin Centres. Orificial Contacts. Cunnilingus
and Fellatio. The Kiss. The Nipples. The Sympathy of the Breasts with
the Primary Sexual Centres. This Connection Operative both through
the Nerves and through the Blood. The Influence of Lactation on the
Sexual Centres. Suckling and Sexual Emotion. The Significance of the
Association between Suckling and Sexual Emotion. The Association as
a Cause of Sexual Perversity.
IV.
The Bath. Antagonism of Primitive Christianity to the Cult of the Skin.
Its Cult of Personal Filth. The Reasons which Justified this Attitude.
The World-wide Tendency to Association between Extreme
Cleanliness and Sexual Licentiousness. The Immorality Associated
with Public Baths in Europe down to Modern Times.

V.
Summary. Fundamental Importance of Touch. The Skin the Mother of
All the Other Senses.
SMELL.
I.
The Primitiveness of Smell. The Anatomical Seat of the Olfactory
Centres. Predominance of Smell among the Lower Mammals. Its
Diminished Importance in Man. The Attention Paid to Odors by
Savages.
II.
Rise of the Study of Olfaction. Cloquet. Zwaardemaker. The Theory of
Smell. The Classification of Odors. The Special Characteristics of
Olfactory Sensation in Man. Smell as the Sense of Imagination. Odors
as Nervous Stimulants. Vasomotor and Muscular Effects. Odorous
Substances as Drugs.
III.
The Specific Body Odors of Various Peoples. The Negro, etc. The
European. The Ability to Distinguish Individuals by Smell. The Odor
of Sanctity. The Odor of Death. The Odors of Different Parts of the
Body. The Appearance of Specific Odors at Puberty. The Odors of
Sexual Excitement. The Odors of Menstruation. Body Odors as a
Secondary Sexual Character. The Custom of Salutation by Smell. The
Kiss. Sexual Selection by Smell. The Alleged Association between
Size of Nose and Sexual Vigor. The Probably Intimate Relationship
between the Olfactory and Genital Spheres. Reflex Influences from the
Nose. Reflex Influences from the Genital Sphere. Olfactory
Hallucinations in Insanity as Related to Sexual States. The Olfactive
Type. The Sense of Smell in Neurasthenic and Allied States. In Certain
Poets and Novelists. Olfactory Fetichism. The Part Played by Olfaction
in Normal Sexual Attraction. In the East, etc. In Modern Europe. The

Odor of the Armpit and its Variations. As a Sexual and General
Stimulant. Body Odors in Civilization Tend to Cause Sexual Antipathy
unless some Degree of Tumescence is Already Present. The Question
whether Men or Women are more Liable to Feel Olfactory Influences.
Women Usually more Attentive to Odors. The Special Interest in Odors
Felt by Sexual Inverts.
IV.
The Influence of Perfumes. Their Aboriginal Relationship to Sexual
Body Odors. This True even of the Fragrance of Flowers. The
Synthetic Manufacture of Perfumes. The Sexual Effects of Perfumes.
Perfumes perhaps Originally Used to Heighten the Body Odors. The
Special Significance of the Musk Odor. Its Wide Natural Diffusion in
Plants and Animals and Man. Musk a Powerful Stimulant. Its
Widespread Use as a Perfume. Peau d'Espagne. The Smell of Leather
and its Occasional Sexual Effects. The Sexual Influence of the Odors of
Flowers. The Identity of many Plant Odors with Certain Normal and
Abnormal Body Odors. The Smell of Semen in this Connection.
V.
The Evil Effects of Excessive Olfactory Stimulation. The Symptoms of
Vanillism. The Occasional Dangerous Results of the Odors of Flowers.
Effects of Flowers on the Voice.
VI.
The Place of Smell in Human Sexual Selections. It has given Place to
the Predominance of Vision largely because in Civilized Man it Fails to
Act at a Distance. It still Plays a Part by Contributing to the Sympathies
or the Antipathies of Intimate Contact.
HEARING
I.
The Physiological Basis of Rhythm. Rhythm as a Physiological

Stimulus. The Intimate Relation of Rhythm to Movement. The
Physiological Influence of Music on Muscular Action, Circulation,
Respiration, etc. The Place of Music in Sexual Selection among the
Lower Animals. Its Comparatively Small Place in Courtship among
Mammals. The Larynx and Voice in Man. The Significance of the
Pubertal Changes. Ancient Beliefs Concerning the Influence of Music
in Morals, Education and Medicine. Its Therapeutic Uses. Significance
of the Romantic Interest in Music at Puberty. Men Comparatively
Insusceptible to the Specifically Sexual Influence of Music. Rarity of
Sexual Perversions on the Basis of the Sense of Hearing. The Part of
Music in Primitive Human Courtship. Women Notably Susceptible to
the Specifically Sexual Influence of Music and the Voice.
II.
Summary. Why the Influence of Music in Human Sexual Selection is
Comparatively Small.
VISION.
I.
Primacy of Vision in Man. Beauty as a Sexual Allurement. The
Objective Element in Beauty. Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Various
Parts of the World. Savage Women sometimes Beautiful from
European Point of View. Savages often Admire European Beauty. The
Appeal of Beauty to some Extent