A foot fetichist writes to me: "It is the
_stolen_ glimpse of a pretty foot or ankle which produces the greatest
effect on me." A urolagnic symbolist was chiefly excited by the act of
urination when he caught a young woman unawares in the act. A fetichistic
admirer of the nates only desired to see this region in innocent girls,
not in prostitutes. The exhibitionist, almost invariably, only exposes
himself to apparently respectable girls.
A Russian correspondent, who feels this charm of women in a
particularly strong degree, is inclined to think that there is an
element of perversity in it. "In the erotic action of the idea of
feminine enjoyment," he writes, "I think there are traces of a
certain perversity. In fact, owing to the impressions of early
youth, woman (even if we feel contempt for her in theory) is
placed above us, on a certain pedestal, as an almost sacred
being, and the more so because mysterious. Now sensuality and
sexual desire are considered as rather vulgar, and a little
dirty, even ridiculous and degrading, not to say bestial. The
woman who enjoys it, is, therefore, rather like a profaned altar,
or, at least, like a divinity who has descended on to the earth.
To give enjoyment to a woman is, therefore, like perpetrating a
sacrilege, or at least like taking a liberty with a god. The
feelings bequeathed to us by a long social civilization maintain
themselves in spite of our rational and deliberate opinions.
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