As, however, they were shot down, and as, moreover,
victory usually fell to the Montenegrians, this custom became
discredited. (Quoted by Bloch, _Op. cit._, Teil II, p. 307.)
With regard to the association, suggested by Stanley Hall,
between exhibitionism and an unusual degree of development of the
sexual organs, it must be remarked that both extremes--a very
large and a very small penis--are specially common in
exhibitionists. The prevalence of the small organ is due to an
association of exhibitionism with sexual feebleness. The
prevalence of the large organ may be due to the cause suggested
by Hall. Among Mahommedans the sexual organs are sometimes
habitually exposed by religious penitents, and I note that
Bernhard Stern, in his book on the medical and sexual aspects of
life in Turkey, referring to a penitent of this sort whom he saw
on the Stamboul bridge at Constantinople, remarks that the organ
was very largely developed. It may well be in such a case that
the penitent's religious attitude is reinforced by some lingering
relic of a more fleshly ostentation.
It is by a pseudo-atavism that this phallicism is evoked in the
exhibitionist.
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