Properly regarded,
however, it is the sexual act rather than the sexual organ which
is craved in normal sexual desire; the organ is regarded merely
as the means and not as the end. Regarded as a means the organ is
indeed an object of desire, but it only becomes a fetich when it
arrests and fixes the attention. An attention thus pleasurably
fixed, a vulva-fetichism or a penis-fetichism, is within the
normal range of sexual emotion (this point has been mentioned in
the previous volume when discussing the part played by the
primary sexual organs in sexual selection), and in coarse-grained
natures of either sex it is a normal allurement in its
generalized shape, apart from any attraction to the person to
whom the organs belong. In some morbid cases, however, this
penis-fetichism may become a fully developed sexual perversion. A
typical case of this kind has been recorded by Howard in the
United States. Mrs. W., aged 39, was married at 20 to a strong,
healthy man, but derived no pleasure from coitus, though she
received great pleasure from masturbation practiced immediately
after coitus, and nine years after marriage she ceased actual
coitus, compelling her husband to adopt mutual masturbation.
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