Finally, as regards the onanism which is a marked characteristic of some adult Urnings, this must be ascribed in most cases to the repression of their abnormal instincts.
In consequence of this sophistication of his nature, the victim of inherited neuropathy and onanism feels shy with women, and finds it convenient to frequent persons of his own sex.
Without having recourse to Ulrichs, it may be demonstrated from Krafft-Ebing's own cases of genuine Urnings that early onanism is by no means more frequent among them than among normal males.
Homosexual indulgence with a man gave me enjoyment and a consequent feeling of well-being, whereas onanism faute de mieux produced an opposite result.
Onanism is a miserable makeshift, and pernicious, whereas homosexual love elevates the moral and strengthens the physical nature.
If we point out that a large percentage of males who practise onanism in their adolescence do not acquire sexual inversion, he will answer that these were not tainted with hereditary disease.
This is how he states his theory of onanism as an exciting cause of inherited neuropathy, resulting in sexual inversion.
Yet the autobiographies of avowed Urnings do not corroborate the view that they were originally more addicted to onanism than normal males.
Considering the frequency of both hereditary taint and onanism in our civilisation, this is not risking much.
On the whole, the danger of this form of onanism has also been exaggerated.
The fifth class is constituted by the onanism of sexual inverts, and may be called essential onanism.
Sexual hypochondriasis is in no way the effect of onanism, but precedes it, and onanism is rather its effect, or is simply associated with it.
The great inconvenience of all these establishments lies in the danger of contamination from habits of onanism or pederasty.
In this case onanism is produced spontaneously as the result of psycho-sexual precocity or hereditary pathological satyriasis.
After being seduced by homosexuals, who initiate them in mutual onanism or pederasty, they are suddenly or gradually disgusted with women and become inverts (vide Suggestion).
In all these cases we are confronted with the following dilemma: (1) In the unmarried person: onanism or prostitution, or both.
Innocent as regards its cause, this form of onanism may become dangerous by habit.
These form the types which are paraded as terrible examples in books on onanism which make timid persons' hair stand on end.
All these phenomena lead to onanism or masturbation, of which we shall speak later on.
However, onanism does them nearly as much harm as men; it is true they have no loss of semen, but the repetition and intensity of the nervous irritation are greater than in man, and it is this which causes most exhaustion.
Inquiry among my friends as to onanism in the boarding-schools to which they were sent, elicited somewhat contradictory answers concerning the frequency of the habit.
But I believe that, in the case of the Swiss mountaineers, moderate onanism is practiced, as a rule.
As the youth develops, onanism becomes a sexual act comparable to coitus as a dream is comparable to reality, imagery forming in correspondence with the desires.
I am prepared to deny that onanism ever produces any psychoses in those who are not already predisposed.
Hence, they have no reason for adopting onanism as an outlet for passions.
The first phase belongs to the nursing period, the second to the short flourishing period of sexual activity at about the fourth year, only the third corresponds to the one which is often considered exclusively as onanism of puberty.
Unusual techniques in the performance of onanism seem to point to the influence of a prohibition against onanism which has been overcome.
The infantile onanism seems to disappear after a brief time, but it may continue uninterruptedly till puberty and thus represent the first marked deviation from the development desirable for civilized man.
How much onanism had to do with the establishment of circumcision may well be conjectured.
Neither did Tissot nor Bienville, the two pioneers in the field of our knowledge regarding onanism and nymphomania, dream of the existence of this one cause of the diseases to which they gave so much time and study.
He spares himself the shame of onanism by imagining the presence of an object for his desires in that early period.
Yet the only meaningful conclusion is again drawn from the onanism complex, where it is a matter of course for the young man to do everything in order to hide his sex life from his father.
The tearing off of a branch as the symbolic representation of onanismis not alone in keeping with the vulgar representation of the fact of onanism, but has far-reaching mythological parallels.
These experiences, even though they be of short duration, are sufficient to set in motion certain sexual impulses in both children, which continue in the form of onanism for several years after the common games have ceased.
Remember, in conclusion, that we were constantly forced to interpret the so-called tooth-ache dreams as dreams dealing with the subject ofonanism and the punishment that is feared.
From the onanism complex we can now explain the other parts of the manifest dream.
But if you think of the function of reproduction as the nucleus of sexuality you are in danger of excluding a number of things that do not aim at reproduction but are certainly sexual, such as onanism or even kissing.
The theme of onanism alone would occupy us for a long period of time; it offers material for diverse observations.
Onanism is an aggravating circumstance of fornication, or rather a new sin of unnatural intercourse.
The normal woman is not harmed but helped by child-bearing, whereas onanism and other unnatural vices are fearfully damaging both to mental and physical health.
Ordinary fornication also has its degrees of bad and worse: thus, engaged persons who sin together habitually are worse than those who sin only occasionally, and circumstances such as artificial onanism and abortion add to the guilt.
If birth control refers to a means of family limitation, it is lawful when that means is continence or abstinence from marital relations, not if it is onanism or the use of mechanical or chemical means to prevent conception.
Those who have not been spoiled or misled by contraceptive propaganda or advice, instinctively regard artificial birth-control as well as onanism with disgust.
The itching of the anus may induce more or less sexual irritation, which in the young may further lead to onanismand its attendant evils.
