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xiii, v. 2; I Kings, Chapter xix, v. 18. [210] Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidentums_, p. 109. [211] The Romans recognized at least three kinds of kiss: the _osculum_, for friendship, given on the face; the _basium_, for affection, given on the lips; the _suavium_, given between the lips, reserved for lovers. [212] In other parts of the world it would appear that the kiss sometimes has a sacred or ritual character. Thus, according to Rev. J. Macdonald (_Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, November, 1890, p. 118), it is part of the initiation ceremony of a girl at her first menstruation that the women of the village should kiss her on the cheek, and on the mons veneris and labia. [213] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, August and November, 1898, p. 107. [214] Velten, _Sitten und Gebraueche der Suaheli_, p. 142. [215] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 45. [216] Tregear, _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, 1889. [217] _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, 1896, ht. 4, p. 272. [218] Breitenstein, _21 Jahre in India_, vol. i, p. 224. APPENDIX B. HISTORIES OF SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT. The histories here recorded are similar in character to those given in Appendix B of the previous volume. HISTORY I.--C.D., clergyman, age, 34. Height about 5 ft. 8 in. Weight, 8st. 8lb. Complexion, fair. Physical infirmities, very myopic, tendency to consumption. "My family is of old lineage on both sides. My parents were normal and fairly healthy; but I consider that heredity, though not vitiated, is somewhat overrefined, and there is a neuropathic tendency, which has appeared in myself and in one or two other members of the family. As a child, I suffered, though not very frequently, from nocturnal enuresis. My sexual nature, though normal, has been keenly alive and sensitive as far back as I can remember; and as I look back I discern within myself in early childhood what I now understand to be a decided masochistic or passively algolagnic tendency. So far as I remember, this manifested itself in me in two aspects; one psychic or sentimental and free from carnality, expressing itself in imaginative visions such as the following: I used, to imagine myself kneeling before a young and beautiful woman and being sentenced by her to some punishment, and even threatened with death. At other times I would picture myself as a wounded sold
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