" In harmony with this passage from
Regnier's novel are the remarks of a correspondent who writes to
me of the function of urination that it "appeals sexually to most
normal individuals. My own observations and inquiries prove this.
Women themselves instinctively feel it. The secrecy surrounding
the matter lends, too, I think, a sexual interest."
The fact that scatalogic processes may in some degree exert an
attraction even in normal love has been especially emphasized by
Bloch (_Beitraege zur AEtiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis_, Teil
II, pp. 222, et seq.): "The man whose intellect and aesthetic
sense has been 'clouded by the sexual impulse' sees these things
in an entirely different light from him who has not been overcome
by the intoxication of love. For him they are idealized (sit
venia verbo) since they are a part of the beloved person, and in
consequence associated with love." Bloch quotes the _Memoiren
einer Saengerin_ (a book which is said to be, though this seems
doubtful, genuinely autobiographical) in the same sense: "A man
who falls in love with a girl is not dragged out of his poetic
sphere by the thought that his beloved must relieve certain
natural necessities every day.
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