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We are now mainly concerned with manifestations which are more narrowly and exclusively symbolical.

Perhaps the chief passion of Restif's life was his love for Colette Parangon.

"Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
Having a living fountain under it;"

Among children, both boys and girls, it is common to find that the copulation of animals is a mysteriously fascinating spectacle.

A case recorded by Schrenck-Notzing very well represents both the nature of the impulse felt by the exhibitionist and the way in which it may originate.

Erotic symbolism is therefore concerned with all that is least generic, least specific, all that is most intimately personal and individual, in sexual selection

Our knowledge of the individual and racial variations of the external sexual organs is still extremely imperfect.

Detumescence is normally linked closely to tumescence.

Fish—skate, for instance, and notably oysters and other shellfish—are very widely regarded as aphrodisiacs, and Kisch attributes this property to caviar.

The man of sexual type, according to Biérent (La Puberté, p. 148), is hairy, dark and deep-voiced.

There is some interest in noting the signs of loss of virginity chiefly relied upon by ancient authors.