In the phenomena of auto-erotism, when we take a broad
view of those phenomena, we are concerned, not with a form of insanity,
not necessarily with a form of depravity, but with the inevitable
by-products of that mighty process on which the animal creation rests.
FOOTNOTES:
[289] For a bibliography of masturbation, see Rohleder, _Die
Masturbation_, pp. 11-18; also, Arthur MacDonald, _Le Criminel Type_, pp.
227 et seq.; cf. G. Stanley Hall, _Adolescence_, vol. i, pp. 432 _et seq._
[290] Oskar Berger, _Archiv fuer Psychiatrie_, Bd. 6, 1876.
[291] _Die Masturbation_, p. 41.
[292] Dukes, _Preservation of Health_, 1884, p. 150.
[293] G. Stanley Hall, _Adolescence_, vol. i, p. 434.
[294] F.S. Brockman, "A Study of the Moral and Religious Life of Students
in the United States," _Pedagogical Seminary_, September, 1902. Many
pitiful narratives are reproduced.
[295] Moraglia, "Die Onanie beim normalen Weibe und bei den Prostituten,"
_Zeitschrift fuer Criminal-Anthropologie_, 1897, p. 489. It should be added
that Moraglia is not a very critical investigator. It is probable,
however, that on this point his results are an approximation to the truth.
[296] Ernst, "Anthropological Researches on the Population of Venezuela,"
_Memoirs of the Anthropological Society_, vol. iii, 1870, p. 277.
[297] Niceforo, _Il Gergo nei Normali_, etc., 1897, cap. V.
[298] Debreyne, _Moechialogie_, p.
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