Nei-i, again (Archivio deUc Psicopatie Sessuali, vol. i, fasc. 7 and 8,
1896), records the case of an Italian masochist who experienced the
gi'eatest pleasure when both urination and defecation were practiced in
this manner by the woman he was attached to.
In a previous volume of these Studies ("Sexual Inversion," History
XXVI) I have recorded the masochistic day-dreams of a boy whose
impulses were at the same time inverted; in his reveries "the central
fact," he states, "became the discharge of urine from my lover over my
body and limbs, or, if I were very fond of him, I let it be in my face."
In actual life the act of urination casually witnessed in childhood be-
came the symbol, even the reality, of the central secret of sex: "I stood
rooted and fliishing with downcast eyes till the act was over, and was
conscious for a considerable time of stammering speech and bewildered
faculties. ... I was overwhelmed with emotion and could barely
drag my feet from the spot or my eyes from the damp herbage where he
had deposited the waters of secrecy. Even to-day I cannot dissociate
myself from the shuddering charm that moment had for me."

It is not only the nrine and the faeces which may thus ac-
quire a symbolic fascination and attractiveness under the influ-
ence of masochistic deviations of sexual idealization. In some
cases extreme rapture has been experienced in licking sweating
feet. There is, indeed, no excretion or product of the body
which has not been a source of ecstasy : the sweat from every part
of the body, the saliva and menstrual fluid, even the wax from
the ears.
