It is at this period (and sometimes
during the menstrual flow) that masturbation may take place in women who
at other times have no strong auto-erotic impulse. The only women who do
not show this heightening of sexual emotion seem to be those in whom
sexual feelings have not yet been definitely called into consciousness, or
the small minority, usually suffering from some disorder of sexual or
general health, in whom there is a high degree of sexual anaesthesia.[116]
The majority of authorities admit a heightening of sexual emotion
before or after the menstrual crisis. See e.g., Krafft-Ebing, who
places it at the post-menstrual period (_Psychopathia Sexualis_,
Eng. translation of tenth edition, p. 27). Adler states that
sexual feeling is increased before, during and after menstruation
(_Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes_, 1904, p.
88). Kossmann (Senator and Kaminer, _Health and Disease in
Relation to Marriage_, I, 249), advises intercourse just after
menstruation, or even during the latter days of the flow, as the
period when it is most needed. Guyot says that the eight days
after menstruation are the period of sexual desire in women
(_Breviaire de l'Amour Experimentale_, p. 144). Harry Campbell
investigated the periodicity of sexual desire in healthy women of
the working classes, in a series of cases, by inquiries made of
their husbands who were patients at a London hospital.
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