INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

• Africa,
  • modesty in, 15 et seq., 48, 59, 78.
  • sexual periodicity in, 128.
• Ainu,
  • modesty of, 22.
• American Indians,
  • menstruation in, 89.
  • modesty of, 13.
• Anæmia and hysteria, 233.
• Andamanese modesty, 14.
• Animals,
  • breeding season of, 124.
  • hysteria in, 215.
  • masturbation in, 164 et seq.
  • modesty in, 37.
  • their dislike of dirt, 51.
• Annual sexual rhythm, 122 et seq., 300 et seq.
• Anus as a centre of modesty, 52.
• Apes,
  • masturbation in, 165.
  • menstruation in, 94.
  • Arabian festivals, 135.
• Arabs,
  • modesty in, 19, 42.
  • their ancient conception of uncleanness, 287.
• Art and auto-erotism, 265, 282.
• Asafœtida in hysteria, 211.
• Attitudes passionnelles, 224.
• Australia,
  • modesty in, 9, 60.
  • sexual festivals in, 127.
• Autumn festivals, 136.

• Baboon,
  • menstruation in, 93.
• Babylonian festivals, 135.
• Bashfulness, 36.
• Bathing,
  • promiscuous, 26, 34.
• Beltane fires, 131.
• Bengal,
  • modesty in, 14.
  • sexual periodicity in, 128.
• Birds,
  • dreams of, 193.
• Birthrate,
  • periodicity of, 137 et seq.
• Bladder,
  • as a source of dreams, 193.
  • foreign bodies in, 171 et seq.
  • periodicity in expulsive force of, 158.
• Blindness in relation to modesty, 77.
• Blood,
  • primitive ideas about, 289.
  • supposed virtues of menstrual, 292.
• Blood-pressure, 101.
• Blushing,
  • the significance of, 46, 72 et seq.
• Bonfire festivals, 131.
• Borneo,
  • modesty in, 15.
• Bosom in relation to modesty, 38.
• Brazil,
  • modesty in, 12, 60.
• Bread,
  • periodicity in consumption of, 155.
• Breeding season, 123 et seq.
• Brumalia, 130.

• Camargo, 33.
• Catholic theologians,
  • on delectatio morosa, 184.
  • on erotic dreams, 188.
  • on masturbation, 279.
• Celibacy and religion, 311.
• Ceremonial element in religion, 135.
• Chastity in Polynesia, 10.
• Chemical rays and sexual periodicity, 140.
• Childbirth,
  • modesty in, 29.
• Children,
  • masturbation in, 239.
  • periodicity of growth in, 153.
  • spring fever in, 149.
  • their lack of modesty, 36.
• Chimpanzee, menstruation in, 94.
• Chinese modesty, 20, 62.
• Chivalry and modesty, 64.
• Chlorosis and hysteria, 233.
• Christianity,
  • in relation to modesty, 25 et seq., 44.
  • its attitude towards masturbation, 278 et seq.
• Christmas festivals, 133, 137.
• Clothing and modesty, 58 et seq.
• Cod-piece, 28.
• Coitus,
  • and ceremonial ritual, 54.
  • as a sedative, 269.
  • in relation to masturbation, 257.
  • in relation to menstruation, 98 et seq.
  • in relation to modesty, 40.
  • often painful in hysteria, 203.
• Conception rate, 137 et seq.
• Conduct,
  • periodicity in, 152.
• Continence,
  • importance of, 282.
• Convents,
  • hysteria in, 217.
• Coquetry,
  • function of, 41, 59.
• Courtship,
  • the essential element in, 41.
• Crime,
  • periodicity of, 150.
• Criminals,
  • masturbation among, 238.
  • sexual outbursts in, 147.
• Crow,
  • breeding habits of, 125.
• Cycling in relation to sexual excitement, 177.

• Dancing,
  • auto-erotic aspects of, 180.
• Dancing and modesty, 28.
• Darkness in relation to blushing, 76.
• Day-dreaming, 184 et seq.
• Deer,
  • breeding habits of, 124.
• Delectatio morosa, 183, 184.
• Denmark,
  • modesty in, 29.
• Diogenes, 277.
• Dionysian festivals, 130.
• Disgust as a factor of modesty, 47 et seq., 82.
• Distillatio, 279.
• Dog,
  • breeding season of, 124.
• Drawers,
  • origin of feminine, 28, 32.
• Dreams,
  • and sexual periodicity, 112.
  • day, 184 et seq.
  • erotic, 191 et seq.
  • Freud on, 222.
  • inverted, 195.
  • vesical, 193 et seq.
  
  
• Easter festivals, 131, 135.
• Eating,
  • modesty in, 48, 55.
• Ecbolic curve, 112 et seq.
• Economic factor of modesty, 64.
• Elephants,
  • masturbation in, 165.
• Enuresis,
  • nocturnal, 193.
• Epilepsy,
  • anciently confused with hysteria, 211.
  • in relation to masturbation, 256.
• Erotic dreams, 191 et seq.
  • festivals, 127 et seq.
  • hallucinations, 200.
• Eskimo,
  • menstruation in, 89.
  • modesty of, 47, 60.
  • sexual habits of, 126.
• Etruscans,
  • modesty among, 23.
• Evil eye and modesty, 56.
• Excretory customs and modesty, 52.
• Eye disorders and masturbation, 250.

• Face as a centre of modesty, 78.
• Fear,
  • modesty based on, 36, 47.
• Ferrets,
  • masturbation in, 165.
• Festivals,
  • erotic, 127 et seq.
• Fools,
  • Feast of, 130.
• Foot and modesty, 20.
• Frigidity caused by masturbation, 262.
• Fuegians,
  • modesty of, 13.
  
  
• General paralysis,
  • annual curve of, 150.
• Globus hystericus, 210.
• Goethe, 266.
• Gogol, 265.
• Greeks,
  • festivals of, 130.
  • modesty among, 22.
  • their attitude towards masturbation, 297.
• Growth, periodicity in, 153.

• Hair-pin used in masturbation, 172 et seq.
• Hallucinations,
  • erotic, 200.
• Head,
  • covering the, 56.
• Heart disease,
  • monthly rhythm in, 111.
• "Heat" in animals, 91.
  • its relation to menstruation, 98.
• Hemicrania,
  • periodicity in, 112.
• Horse exercise and sexual excitement, 175.
• Horses,
  • masturbation in, 165.
• Hottentots,
  • masturbation among, 167.
• Hymen in relation to modesty, 39.
• Hysteria,
  • alleged seasonal prevalence of, 148.
  • and chlorosis, 233.
  • and masturbation, 256.
  • Breuer and Freud on, 219 et seq.
  • Charcot and, 214 et seq.
  • coitus often painful in, 203.
  • in relation to sexual emotion, 205 et seq.
  • nocturnal hallucinations of, 200.
  • physiological, 227 et seq.
  • the theory of, 209 et seq.
  
  
• Iceland,
  • modesty in, 30.
• Illegitimate births,
  • periodicity of, 139.
• Incubus, 188.
• India,
  • conception rate in, 139.
  • masturbation in, 167.
  • modesty in, 14.
• Infants,
  • masturbation in, 238.
• Insane,
  • masturbation in the, 238, 243.
  • modesty in the, 51.
• Insanity and masturbation, 252 et seq.
  • periodicity of, 88, 110, 112, 149.
• Inversion,
  • dreams in, 195.
• Ireland,
  • modesty in, 30, 63.
• Ishtar, 135.
• Italy,
  • modesty in, 30, 35.
  
  
• Japanese,
  • masturbation among, 167.
  • modesty of, 21, 70, 76.
• Jealousy in relation to modesty, 40, 63.

• Kadishtu, 135.
• Kierkegaard, 266.

• Lapps,
  • menstruation among, 89.
  • modesty of, 20.
• Lizard and women in folk-lore, 285, 286.
• Love largely based on modesty, 1, 5, 53, 82 et seq.

• Macaque,
  • menstruation in, 93.
  • Malay festivals, 130.
• Maori,
  • modesty, 11.
• Marriage caused by masturbation,
  • aversion to, 262.
• Marriage and the hysterical, 216, 232.
• Masturbation among animals, 164 et seq.
  • among lower human races, 166.
  • among higher human races, 169.
  • as a sedative, 268 et seq.
  • combined with religious emotions, 312 et seq.
  • in men of genius, 265.
  • interrupted, 195.
  • in the insane, 238, 243.
  • methods of, 166 et seq.
  • periodicity of, 115.
  • prevalence of, 235 et seq.
  • symptoms and results of, 248 et seq.
• May-day festivals, 131.
• Mediæval modesty, 27.
• Medicean Venus,
  • attitude of, 38.
• Menstrual blood,
  • supposed virtues of, 292.
• Menstrual cycle in men, 106 et seq.
• Menstruation,
  • among primitive peoples, 89.
  • and hysteria, 216.
  • and modesty, 55.
  • and pregnancy, 109.
  • and social position of women, 284 et seq.
  • as a continuous process, 90.
  • as a process of purification, 55.
  • cause doubtful, 94.
  • euphemisms for, 68.
  • in animals, 91 et seq.
  • occasional absence in health, 96.
  • origin of, 86.
  • precocity in, 238.
  • primitive theory of, 286.
  • relation to "heat," 98.
  • relation to ovulation, 95.
  • relation to sexual desire, 98 et seq.
• Mental energy, periodicity of, 158.
• Metabolism,
  • seasonal influences on, 159.
• Mittelschmerz, 89 et seq.
• Mohammedans,
  • attitude towards menstruation, 278.
  • modesty of, 19, 55.
  • mysticism among, 323.
• Midsummer festivals, 132.
• Monkeys,
  • breeding season of, 124, 126.
  • masturbation in, 165.
  • menstruation in, 92.
• Moon and masturbation, 86 et seq., 111, 199.
• Moral element in modesty, 83.
• Moritz, K. P., 265.
• Muscular force,
  • periodicity of, 158.
• Mysticism and sexual emotion, 205, 315 et seq.

• Nakedness,
  • chaste in its effects, 61.
  • in relation to modesty, 8 et seq., 75.
• Narcissism, 206.
• Nates as a centre of modesty, 59.
• Negroes,
  • modesty of, 15 et seq.
• Nervous diseases and masturbation, 252 et seq.
• Neurasthenia and masturbation, 259.
• New England,
  • modesty in, 33.
• New Georgians,
  • modesty among, 8.
• New Guinea,
  • folk-lore of menstruation in, 286.
  • modesty in, 9.
• New Hebrides,
  • modesty in, 8.
• New Zealand,
  • modesty in, 11.
• Nicobarese modesty, 14.
• Night-inspiration, 76.
• Novel-reading,
  • alleged sexual periodicity in, 155.
  
  
• Obscenity,
  • Roman horror of, 67.
• Œstrus, 91, 101.
• "Onanism,"
  • the term, 162.
• Orang-utan,
  • menstruation in, 92.
• Orgasm,
  • spontaneous, 182 et seq.
• Ornament as a sexual lure, 61.
• Ovaries with hysteria,
  • alleged association of, 216.
• Ovulation and menstruation, 95.

• Papuans,
  • modesty of, 9.
  • sexual periodicity among, 128.
• Penis suecedaneus, 169.
• Pollutio, 188.
• Pollutio interruptus, 195.
• Polynesian modesty, 10, 60.
• Precocity,
  • sexual, 238, 244.
• Pregnancy,
  • menstrual cycle during, 109.
• Prostitutes,
  • hysteria among, 217.
  • masturbation in, 238.
  • modesty of, 70.
• Prudery, 33, 35.
• Prurience based on modesty, 65.
• Psychic coitus, 183.
• Psychic traumatism, 220.
• Pulse,
  • periodicity of the, 111, 297.
  
  
• Railway travelling as cause of sexual excitement, 176.
• Rapes,
  • periodicity of, 150.
• Religion and sexual emotions, 310 et seq.
• Revery, 184 et seq.
• Rhythm, 85.
• Riding as a cause of sexual excitement, 175.
• Ritual factor of modesty, 54, 65.
• Roland, Mme., 189.
• Romans,
  • modesty of, 24, 67.
• Rosalia, 130.
• Rousseau, 265.
• Russia,
  • conception rate in, 139.
  • modesty in, 31.
• Rest, 91, 100.

• Sacro-pubic region as a centre of modesty, 51.
• St. John's Eve,
  • festival of, 132.
• Samoa, 12.
• Samoyeds,
  • menstruation among, 89.
• Saturnalia, 132.
• Scarlet fever,
  • periodicity of, 157.
• Schools,
  • auto-erotic phenomena in, 240 et seq.
• Seasonal periodicity of sexual impulse, 112 et seq.
• Seduction and menstruation, 103.
• Seminal emissions during sleep, 188 et seq.
• Serpent in folk-lore, 284 et seq.
• Sewing-machine as a cause of sexual excitement, 176.
• Sexual anæsthesia induced by masturbation, 262.
• Sexual factor of modesty, 37 et seq.
• Sexual desire,
  • in relation to blushing, 74.
  • in relation to hysteria, 212 et seq.
  • in relation to menstruation, 100 et seq.
  • in relation to modesty, 42 et seq., 64.
  • in relation to season, 122 et seq.
  • in women, 3, 100 et seq.
• Sexual periodicity in men, 107 et seq., 297 et seq.
  • what we owe to irradiations of, 5.
• Sexual organs viewed differently by savage and civilized peoples, 61.
• Shame,
  • definition and nature of, 6, 36, 48, 83.
• Short sight and modesty, 77.
• Shyness, 77.
• Slang,
  • private, 66.
• Sleep in relation to sexual activity, 188 et seq.
• Snake and women in folk-lore, 284 et seq.
• Somnambulism of bladder, 194.
• Speech,
  • modesty in, 66.
• Spring,
  • as season of sexual excitement, 148.
  • festivals of, 134 et seq.
• Swinging,
  • auto-erotic aspects of, 174.
• Succubus, 188.
• Suicide,
  • periodicity of, 115, 153.
  
  
• Taboo and menstruation, 287.
  • and modesty, 55.
• Tahiti, 10.
• Tammuz festival, 135.
• Theologians,
  • opinions of, 184, 188, 278, 279.
• Theresa, St., 205, 220, 323.
• Thigh-friction, 179, 239.
• Thumb-sucking, 239.
• Timidity, 7.
• Tight-lacing as a cause of sexual excitement, 178.
• Torres Straits,
  • modesty at, 9.
• Turkish modesty, 19, 31.

• Uncleanness,
  • primitive conception of, 287 et seq.
• Uric acid,
  • excretion, periodicity of, 159.
• Urine,
  • incontinence of, 193.
• Urtication,
  • as a form of auto-erotism, 181.
  
  
• Valentine's Day, 131.
• Veil,
  • origin of the, 55 et seq.
• Vesical dreams, 193 et seq.
• Vocabularies,
  • private, 66.
  
  
• Walpurgisnacht, 134.
• Weekly sexual rhythm, 115 et seq., 306 et seq.
• Witches,
  • erotic hallucinations of, 202.
• Womb anciently thought source of hysteria, 212.
• Women,
  • as property in relation to modesty, 63.
  • masturbation among, 169 et seq., 243 et seq., 264 et seq.
  • menstruation in, 86 et seq., 284 et seq.
  • sexual impulse in, 3.
  • their auto-erotic manifestations in sleep, 196.
  • their night-inspiration, 76.
  • whether more modest than men, 3, 75.
  
  
• Year,
  • primitive divisions of, 134.
  
  
• Zeus,
  • auto-erotic manifestations in, 188.