Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

In the perversion which consists in striving to look and be looked at we are confronted with a very remarkable character which will occupy us even more intensively in the following aberration. The sexual aim is here present in twofold formation, in an active and a passive form.

On the other hand, the fondness for looking becomes a perversion (a) when it limits itself entirely to the genitals; (b) when it becomes connected with the overcoming of loathing (voyeurs and onlookers at the functions of excretion); and (c) when instead of preparing for the normal sexual aim it suppresses it.

The manner in which the libidinous excitement is frequently awakened is by the optical impression, and selection takes account of this circumstance—if this teleological mode of thinking be permitted—by making the sexual object a thing of beauty.

that the touching of the skin of the sexual object causes much pleasure and produces a supply of new excitement.

The employment of the mouth as a sexual organ is considered as a perversion if the lips (tongue) of the one are brought into contact with the genitals of the other, but not when the mucous membrane of the lips of both touch each other

One definite kind of contiguity, consisting of mutual approximation of the mucous membranes of the lips in the form of a kiss, has received among the most civilized nations a sexual value

Thus certain intermediary relations to the sexual object connected with copulation, such as touching and looking, are recognized as preliminary to the

The sexual impulse is probably entirely independent of its object and is not originated by the stimuli proceeding from the object.

he sexual aims of the inverted are manifold, among which contact with the mucous membrane of the mouth seems to be preferred

show the somatic and psychic characters of man and desire femininity in their sexual object;