It is a curious proof of the ignorance which has prevailed in
recent times concerning the psychic sexual nature of women that,
although in earlier ages the fact that women are normally liable
to erotic dreams was fully recognized, in recent times it has
been denied, even by writers who have made a special study of the
sexual impulse in women. Eulenburg (_Sexuale Neuropathie_, 1895,
pp. 31, 79) appears to regard the appearances of sexual phenomena
during sleep, in women, as the result of masturbation. Adler, in
what is in many respects an extremely careful study of sexual
phenomena in women (_Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des
Weibes_, 1904, p. 130), boldly states that they do not have
erotic dreams. In 1847, E. Guibout ("Des Pollutions Involontaires
chez la Femme," _Union Medicale_, p. 260) presented the case of a
married lady who masturbated from the age of ten, and continued
the practice, even after her marriage at twenty-four, and at
twenty-nine began to have erotic dreams with emissions every few
nights, and later sometimes even several times a night, though
they ceased to be voluptuous; he believed the case to be the
first ever reported of such a condition in a woman. Yet,
thousands of years ago, the Indian of Vedic days recognized
erotic dreams in women as an ordinary and normal occurrence.
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