This case, in which the sensations of an infant
at the breast formed the point of departure of a sexual
perversion which lasted through life, is, so far as I am aware,
unique.
FOOTNOTES:
[17] Jonas Cohn (_Allgemeine AEsthetik_, 1901, p. 11) lays it down that
psychology has nothing to do with good or bad taste. "The distinction
between good and bad taste has no meaning for psychology. On this account,
the fundamental conceptions of aesthetics cannot arise from psychology." It
may be a question whether this view can be accepted quite absolutely.
[18] See Appendix A: "The Origins of the Kiss."
[19] See J.B. Hellier, "On the Nipple Reflex," _British Medical Journal_,
November 7, 1896.
[20] Fere, _L'Instinct Sexuel_, second edition, p. 147.
IV.
The Bath--Antagonism of Primitive Christianity to the Cult of the
Skin--Its Cult of Personal Filth--The Reasons which Justified this
Attitude--The World-wide Tendency to Association between Extreme
Cleanliness and Sexual Licentiousness--The Immorality Associated with
Public Baths in Europe down to Modern Times.
The hygiene of the skin, as well as its special cult, consists in bathing.
The bath, as is well known, attained under the Romans a degree of
development which, in Europe at all events, it has never reached before or
since, and the modern visitor to Rome carries away with him no more
impressive memory than that of the Baths of Caracalla.
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