ide and Vurpas, "and we
may say generally that nearly all persons of motor type are erotic." The
state of detumescence is one of motor and muscular energy and of great
vascular activity, so that habitual energy of motor response and an active
circulation may reasonably be taken to indicate an aptitude for the
manifestation of detumescence.

These three types may be said, therefore, to furnish us valuable though
somewhat general indications. The individual who is farthest removed from
the castrated type, who presents in fullest degree the characters which
begin to emerge at the period of puberty, and who reveals a physiological
aptitude for the vigorous manifestation of those activities which are
called into action during detumescence, is most likely to be of erotic
temperament. The most cautious description of the characteristics of this
temperament given by modern scientific writers, unlike the more detailed
and hazardous descriptions of the early physiognomists, will be found to
be fairly true to the standards thus presented to us.

The man of sexual type, according to Bierent (_La Puberte_, p.
148), is hairy, dark and deep-voiced.

"The men most liable to satyriasis," Bouchereau states (art.
"Satyriasis," _Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Sciences
Medicales_), "are those with vigorous nervous system, developed
muscles, abundant hair on body, dark complexion, and white
teeth."

Mantegazza, in his _Fisiologia del Piacere_, thus describes the
sexual temperament: "Individuals of nervous temperament, those
with fine and brown skins, rounded forms, large lips and very
prominent larynx enjoy in general much more than those with
opposite characteristics. A universal tradition," he adds,
"describes as lascivious humpbacks, dwarfs, and in general
persons of short stature and with long noses."

In a case of nymphomania in a young woman, described by Alibert
(and quoted by Laycock, _Nervous Diseases of Women_, p. 28) the
hips, thighs and legs were remarkably plump, while the chest and
arms were completely emaciated. In a somewhat similar case
described by Marc in his _De la Folie_ a peasant woman, who from
an early age had experienced sexual hyperaesthesia, so that she
felt spasmodic voluptuous feelings at the sight of a man, and was
thus the victim of solitary excesses and of spasmodic movements
which she could not repress, the uppe