I have above taken it for granted that Maria's erotism was satisfied through her care for her father.
Maria likewise sought presumably in her sleep walking for the bed of her childhood because her earliest erotism was bound with it.
As Maria's erotism later found satisfaction in her father, her love toward the moon steadily receded.
So far as I have been able to ascertain, there seem to be, generally speaking, certain differences in the manifestations of auto-erotism during sleep in men and women which I believe to be not without psychological significance.
So that in the presence of all these manifestations we may assert that in a real sense, though subtly mingled with very diverse elements, auto-erotism everywhere plays its part.
There are many other forms in which the impulse of auto-erotism presents itself.
The extreme form of auto-erotism is the tendency for the sexual emotion to be absorbed and often entirely lost in self-admiration.
The study of auto-erotism is far from being an unimportant or merely curious study.
Japanese women have probably carried the mechanical arts of auto-erotism to the highest degree of perfection.
In women, however, the phenomena of auto-erotism during sleep seem to be much more irregular, varied, and diffused.
The typical form of auto-erotism is the occurrence of the sexual orgasm during sleep.
At this point our study of auto-erotism brings us into the sphere of mysticism.
In the study of auto-erotism in another volume of these Studies I have brought together some of the evidence showing that even in very young children spontaneous self-induced sexual excitement, with orgasm, may occur.
It must also be said (as I have pointed out in the discussion of Auto-erotism in another volume) that sexual dreams seem to be the exception rather than the rule in innocent girls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erotism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: concupiscence; desire; eroticism; indecency; itch; lust; nymphomania; passion
