In such cases, as much
as in normal sexuality, the stimulation is clearly psychic.
When, as is most commonly the case, it is the process of urination and not
the urine itself which is attractive, we are clearly concerned with a
symbolism of act and not with the fetichistic attraction of an excretion.
When the excretion, apart from the act, provides the attraction, we seem
usually to be in the presence of an olfactory fetichism. These fetichisms
connected with the excreta appear to be experienced chiefly by individuals
who are somewhat weak-minded, which is not necessarily the case in regard
to those persons for whom the act, rather than its product apart from the
beloved person, is the attractive symbol.
The sexually symbolic nature of the act of urination for many
people is indicated by the existence, according to Bloch, who
enumerates various kinds of indecent photographs, of a group
which he terms "the notorious _pisseuses_." It is further
indicated by several of the reproductions in Fuch's _Erotsiche
Element in der Karikatur_, such as Delorme's "La Necessite n'a
point de Loi." (It should be added that such a scene by no means
necessarily possesses any erotic symbolism, as we may see in
Rembrandt's etching commonly called "Le Femme qui Pisse," in
which the reflected lights on the partly shadowed stream furnish
an artistic motive which is obviously free from any trace of
obscenity.
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