In this connection reference may be made to the well-known fact that in some hysterical subjects there are so-called "erogenous zones" simple pressure on which suffices to evoke the complete orgasm.
The vulva and the mons Veneris are the strongest erogenous zones; other erogenouszones are the lips, the breasts, etc.
Besides its milk secreting function, the breasts constitute a strong erogenous zone; they are a point of strong attraction for the male sex, many men being more attracted by well-developed breasts than by a pretty face.
Such zones or areas are called erogenous zones--the word erogenousmeans love-generating.
Considering then the importance of the breasts in attracting a husband and their function in nursing the young, also their erogenous properties, it is perfectly proper to class them among the reproductive organs.
Here is the truth, or at least what I think is the truth, as it appears to me after many years of thinking and many years of observing.
This wonderful structure sometimes goes up in the twinkling of an eye, as if by the touch of a magic wand--who has not seen or heard of instances of "love at first sight!
But let us remember this paradox, which paradoxical though it be, is true nevertheless: Love is blind, but Love also sees acutely and penetratingly; it sees things which we who are indifferent cannot see.
Some may call it love, but on analyzing it you will find that it is no such thing.
But a grain of truth is not the whole truth, and if an opinion contains ninety-nine parts of untruth to one part of truth, then the effect of the opinion is practically the same as if it were all false.
Stimulation of the mamma, normally anerogenous centre in women, may occasionally serve as a method for obtaining auto-erotic satisfaction, including the orgasm, in both sexes.
Impulses with passive goals attach themselves to theerogenous zone of the rectal opening.
The oral impulse becomes auto-erotic, just as the anal and othererogenous impulses are from the very beginning.
The gratification can only be attributed to the excitation of the mouth and lips, hence we call these parts of the body erogenous zones and the pleasure derived from sucking, sexual.
The erogenous zones are not equally satisfactory; it is therefore an important experience when, as Dr.
Even the kiss can be claimed to be perverse, for it consists in the union of two erogenous mouth zones in place of the respective genitals.
The last part but one of this act is again a suitable excitation of an erogenous zone; i.
Nevertheless, the eye corresponds to anerogenous zone in the looking and exhibition mania, while the skin takes on the same part in the pain and cruelty components of the sexual impulse.
The sexual aim of the infantile impulse consists in the production of gratification through the proper excitation of this or that selected erogenous zone.
The cruelty component of the sexual impulse develops in the child with still greater independence of those sexual activities which are connected with erogenous zones.
As the child passes through the "latent period" of later childhood and adolescence, these "erogenous zones" are concentrated as it were in the organs which are to serve the purpose of reproduction.
The anus would, however, seem to be sometimes an erogenous zone even at an early age.
Bölsche has sought the explanation of the erogenousnature of the anus, and the key to pedicatio, in an atavistic return to the very remote amphibian days when the anus was combined with the sexual parts in a common cloaca.
Freud attaches great importance to the anus as a sexually erogenous zone at a very early age, and considers that it very frequently makes its influence felt in this respect.
The importance of the lips as a normal erogenous zone is shown by the experiments of Gualino.
The lips, moreover, are the earliest erogenous zone.
Thus the meatus of the urethra is a highly erogenous zone, as is sufficiently shown by the frequency with which hair-pins and other articles used in masturbation find their way into the bladder.
