I must confess
that, occasionally, to free myself from the general and local
oppression, I lie on my stomach and obtain ejaculation. I am at
once relieved; a weight seems to be lifted from my chest, and
sleep returns." This patient consulted Gamier as to whether this
artificial relief was not more dangerous than the sufferings it
relieved. Gamier advised that if the ordinary _regime_ of a
well-ordered monastry, together with anaphrodisiac sedatives,
proved inefficacious, the manoeuvre might be continued when
necessary (P. Garnier, _Celibat et Celibataires_, 1887, p. 320).
H.C. Coe (_American Journal of Obstetrics_, p. 766, July, 1889)
gives the case of a married lady who was deeply sensitive of the
wrong nature of masturbation, but found in it the only means of
relieving the severe ovarian pain, associated with intense sexual
excitement, which attended menstruation. During the
intermenstrual period the temptation was absent. Turnbull knew a
youth who found that masturbation gave great relief to feelings
of heaviness and confusion which came on him periodically; and
Wigglesworth has frequently seen masturbation after epileptic
fits in patients who never masturbated at other times. Moll
(_Libido Sexualis_, Bd. I, p. 13) refers to a woman of 28, an
artist of nervous and excitable temperament, who could not find
sexual satisfaction with her lover, but only when masturbating,
which she did once or twice a day, or oftener; without
masturbation, she said, she would be in a much more nervous
state.
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