The two kinds of exhibitionism may be combined in the
same person: Thus, in a case reported by Hoche (p. 97), the
exhibitionist an intellectual and highly educated man, with a
doctor's degree, also found pleasure in sending indecent poems
and pictures to women, whom, however, he made no attempt to
seduce; he was content with the thought of the emotions he
aroused or believed that he aroused.
It is possible that within this group should come the agent in
the following incident which was lately observed by a lady, a
friend of my own. An elderly man in an overcoat was seen standing
outside a large and well-known draper's shop in the outskirts of
London; when able to attract the attention of any of the
shop-girls or of any girl in the street he would fling back his
coat and reveal that he was wearing over his own clothes a
woman's chemise (or possibly bodice) and a woman's drawers; there
was no exposure. The only intelligible explanation of this action
would seem to be that pleasure was experienced in the mild shock
of interested surprise and injured modesty which this vision was
imagined to cause to a young girl. It would thus be a
comparatively innocent form of psychic defloration.
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