146

Family Tendencies--Abnormal Nervous
System--Race--Climate--Position in Life--Town and
Country--Modern Civilisation--Importance of Congenital
Predisposition--Seduction--Local Stimulation--Chemical
Stimuli--Psychical Stimuli.

Diagnostic Difficulties--Recognition by means of
Observation--Erroneous Diagnoses of Masturbation--The Value
of Physical Signs--Value of a Confidant--Misleading
Statements and Conduct on the part of Children.

Non-Sexual Erections--Non-Sexual Manipulations--Sucking
Movements--Nail-Biting--Imitativeness--Impossibility of any
Definite Demarcation of Sexual Feelings.

VII. IMPORTANCE OF THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILD 179

The Sexual Life and Morbid Hereditary
Predisposition--Hygienic Dangers--The Dangers of
Masturbation in General--Of Masturbation in the
Child--Masturbation without Ejaculation--Exaggerated Views
to be Avoided--Amatory Passion and Suicide--Freud's
Theory--Infectious Diseases.

Ethical Dangers--Masturbation and Ethics--Social
Dangers--Social Degradation of Girls--Seduction of
Girls--Forensic Importance of the Sexual Life--Children's
Evidence--Circumstances affecting Culpability--Penal
Responsibility of Children--Intellectual Dangers--Sexuality
and Altruism.

Sexual Perversions and the Choice of a
Profession--Punishments and Masochism--Curiosity of
Children--Sexuality and Art--The Question of the Offspring.

Importance of Tardy Sexual Development.

VIII. THE CHILD AS AN OBJECT OF SEXUAL PRACTICES 219

Paedophilia Erotica--Other Sexual Offences against
Children--Sexual Acts Performed on Children--Significance of
each Acts to the Child--Artificial Production of Sexual
Perversions--False Accusations--Statistics of Accusations by
Children--Reasons for Protecting Children----Injuries
effected on Children by the Law--Responsibility of
Paedophiles.

Exhibitionism--Sadism--Newspaper Advertisement.

IX. SEXUAL EDUCATION 246

Limits of Educability--General Hygiene--Custom and
Morality--Inculcation of the Sentiments of Shame and
Disgust--Influence upon these Sentiments of Habit and
Example--Morality and Nakedness--Excessive Sentiments of
Shame and Disgust--The Nude in Art--Morality in
Fanatics--Erotic Books and Pictures.

Co-Education of the Sexes--Children's Balls--Diversion of
the Sexual Impulse-