64. Yet theologians and casuists,
Debreyne remarks, frequently never refer to masturbation in women.
[299] Stanley Hall, op. cit., vol. i, p. 34. Hall mentions, also, that
masturbation is specially common among the blind.
[300] Moraglia, _Archivio di Psichiatria_, vol. xvi, fasc. 4 and 5, p.
313.
[301] See his careful study, "Die Sexuellen Perversitaeten in der
Irrenanstalt," _Psychiatrische Bladen_, No. 2. 1899.
[302] Venturi, _Degenerazioni Psico-sessuali_, pp. 105, 133, 148, 152.
[303] J.P. West, _Transactions of the Ohio Pediatric Society_, 1895.
_Abstract in Medical Standard_, November, 1895; cases are also recorded by
J.T. Winter, "Self-abuse in Infancy and Childhood," _American Journal
Obstetrics_, June, 1902.
[304] Freud, _Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie_, pp. 36 et seq.
[305] G.E. Shuttleworth, _British Medical Journal_, October 3, 1903.
[306] See for a detailed study of sexuality in childhood, Moll's valuable
book, _Das Sexualleben des Kindes_; cf. vol. vi of these _Studies_, Ch.
II.
[307] This is, no doubt, the most common opinion, and it is frequently
repeated in text-books. It is scarcely necessary, however, to point out
that only the opinions of those who have given special attention to the
matter can carry any weight. R.W. Shufeldt ("On a Case of Female
Impotency," pp. 5-7) quotes the opinions of various cautious observers as
to the difficulty of detecting masturbation in women.
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