(S.
Freud, _Op. cit._, pp. 40-42.) A medical correspondent in India
tells me of a European lady who derived, she said, "quite as
much, indeed more," pleasure from digitally titillating her
rectum as from vulvo-vaginal titillation; she had several times
submitted to _pedicatio_ and enjoyed it, though it was painful
during penetration. The anus may retain this erogenous
irritability even in old age, and Routh mentions the case of a
lady of over 70, the reverse of lustful, who was so excited by
the act of defecation that she was invariably compelled to
masturbate, although this state of things was a source of great
mental misery to her. (C.H.F. Routh, _British Gynaecological
Journal_, February, 1887, p. 48.)
Boelsche has sought the explanation of the erogenous nature of the
anus, and the key to _pedicatio_, in an atavistic return to the
very remote amphibian days when the anus was combined with the
sexual parts in a common cloaca. But it is unnecessary to invoke
any vestigial inheritance from a vastly remote past when we bear
in mind that the innervation of these two adjoining regions is
inevitably very closely related.
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