2, 1899), Dr. C.H. Hughes writes (in a
private letter) that he is acquainted with such cases, in which
men have been absorbed in admiration of their own manly forms,
and of their sexual organs, and women, likewise, absorbed in
admiration of their own mammae and physical proportions,
especially of limbs. "The whole subject," he adds, "is a singular
phase of psychology, and it is not all morbid psychology, either.
It is closely allied to that aesthetic sense which admires the
nude in art."
Fere (_L'Instinct Sexuel_, 2d ed., p. 271) mentions a woman who
experienced sexual excitement in kissing her own hand. Naecke knew
a woman in an asylum who, during periodical fits of excitement,
would kiss her own arms and hands, at the same time looking like
a person in love. He also knew a young man with dementia praecox?
who would kiss his own image ("Der Kuss bei Geisteskranken,"
_Allgemeine Zeitschrift fuer Psychiatrie_, Bd. LXIII, p. 127).
Moll refers to a young homosexual lawyer, who experienced great
pleasure in gazing at himself in a mirror (_Kontraere
Sexualempfindung_, 3d ed., p. 228), and mentions another inverted
man, an admirer of the nates of men, who, chancing to observe his
own nates in a mirror, when changing his shirt, was struck by
their beauty, and subsequently found pleasure in admiring them
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