It may be added
that the erotic nature of such a spectacle is referred to in the Marquis
de Sade's novels.
There is one motive for the existence of coprolagnia which must not be
passed over, because it has doubtless frequently served as a mode of
transition to what, taken by itself, may well seem the least aesthetically
attractive of erotic symbols. I refer to the tendency of the nates to
become a sexual fetich. The nates have in all ages and in all parts of the
world been frequently regarded as one of the most aesthetically beautiful
parts of the feminine body.[31] It is probable that on the basis of this
entirely normal attraction more than one form of erotic symbolism is at
all events in part supported. Duehren and others have considered that the
aesthetic charm of the nates is one of the motives which prompt the desire
to inflict flagellation on women. In the same way--certainly in some and
probably in many cases--the sexual charm of the nates progressively
extends to the anal region, to the act of defecation, and finally to the
feces.
In a case of Krafft-Ebing's (_Op. cit._, p. 183) the subject,
when a child of 6, accidentally placed his hand in contact with
the nates of the little girl who sat next to him in school, and
experienced so great a pleasure in this contact that he
frequently repeated it; when he was 10 a nursery governess, to
gratify her own desires, placed his finger in her vagina; in
adult life he developed urolagnic tendencies.
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