May not the ecbolic period in men be
compared to the menstrual period in women, and be an example of
the greater katabolic activity of men? There is the period of
tumescence, and the ecbole constituting the detumescence. The
week-end holiday would hasten the detumescence, but about every
third week-end there would tend to be delay to enable the system
to get back into its regulation nine or ten days' stride. This
might possibly be the explanation of the curves. The recent
emissions were nearly all involuntary during sleep. Age may have
something to do with the change in character."
E.M.'s curves frequently show the influence of weekly
periodicity, in the tendency to ecbole on Sunday, or sometimes on
Saturday or Monday. In recent years there has been some tendency
for this climax to be thrown towards the middle of the week, but,
on the whole, Wednesday is the point of lowest frequency.
In another case, the subject, A.N., who has spent nearly all his
life in the State of Indiana, has kept a record of sexual
manifestations between the ages of 30 and 34. The data, which
cover four years, have not been sent to me in a form which
enables the possibility of a monthly curve to be estimated, but
A.N., who has himself arranged the data on a lunar monthly basis,
considers that a monthly curve is thus revealed.
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