urch is chosen, often instinctively rather than
deliberately, from no impulse to commit a sacrilegious outrage--which, as
a rule, the exhibitionist does not feel his act to be--but because it
really presents the conditions most favorable to the act and the effects
desired. The exhibitionist's attitude of mind is well illustrated by one
of Garnier's patients who declared that he never wished to be seen by more
than two women at once, "just what is necessary," he added, "for an
exchange of impressions." After each exhibition he would ask himself
anxiously: "Did they see me? What are they thinking? What do they say to
each other about me? Oh! how I should like to know!" Another patient of
Garnier's, who haunted churches for this purpose, made this very
significant statement: "Why do I like going to churches? I can scarcely
say. _But I know that it is only there that my act has its full
importance_. The woman is in a devout frame of mind, and she must see that
such an act in such a place is not a joke in bad taste or a disgusting
obscenity; _that if I go there it is not to amuse myself; it is more
serious than that!_ I watch the effect produced on the faces of the ladies
to whom I show my organs. I wish to see them express a profound joy. I
wish, in fact, that they may be forced to say to themselves: _How
impressive Nature is when thus seen!_"

Here we trace the presence of a feeling which recalls the
phenomena of the ancient and world-wide phallic worship, still
liable to reappear sporadically. Women sometimes took part in
these rites, and the osculation of the male sexual organ or its
emblematic representation by women is easily traceable in the
phallic rites of India and many other lands, not excluding Europe
even in comparatively recent times. (Dulaure in his _Divinites
Generatices_ brings together much bearing on these points; cf.:
Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_, vol. i, Chapter XVII, and Bloch,
_Beitraege zur Psychopathia Sexualis_, Teil I, pp. 115-117. Colin
Scott has some interesting remarks on phallic worship and the
part it has played in aiding human evolution, "Sex and Art,"
_American Journal of Psychology_, vol. vii, No. 2, pp. 191-197.
Irving Rosse describes some modern phallic rites in which both
men and women took part, similar to those practiced in vaudouism,
"Sexual Hypochondriasis," _Virginia Medical Monthly_, October,
1892.)

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