[113] Thus, mosquitoes are irresistibly attracted by music, and especially by those musical tones which resemble the buzzing of the female; the males alone are thus attracted. (Nuttall and Shipley, and Sir Hiram Maxim, quoted in Nature, October 31, 1901, p. 655, and in Lancet, February 22, 1902.)

[114] Descent of Man, second edition, p. 567.  Groos, in his discussion of music, also expresses doubt whether hearing plays a considerable part in the courtship of mammals, Spiele der Menschen, p. 22.

[115] Fere, L’Instinct Sexuel, second edition, p. 137.

[116] See Bierent, La Puberte Chapter IV; also Havelock Ellis, Man and Woman, fourth edition, pp. 270-272.  Endriss (Die Bisherigen Beobachtungen von Physiologischen und Pathologischen Beziehungen der oberen Luftwege zu den Sexualorganen, Teil III) brings together various observations on the normal and abnormal relations of the larynx to the sexual sphere.

[117] Moll, Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis, bd. 1, p. 133.

[118] J.L.  Roger, Traite des Effets de la Musique, 1803, pp. 234 and 342.

[119] A typical example occurs in the early life of History I in Appendix B to vol. iii of these Studies.

[120] Vaschide and Vurpas state (Archives de Neurologie, May, 1904) that in their experience music may facilitate sexual approaches in some cases of satiety, and that in certain pathological cases the sexual act can only be accomplished under the influence of music.

[121] Fere, L’Instinct Sexuel, p. 137.  Bloch (Beitraege, etc., vol. ii, p. 355) quotes some remarks of Kistemaecker’s concerning the sound of women’s garments and the way in which savages and sometimes civilized women cultivate this rustling and clinking.  Gutzkow, in his Autobiography, said that the frou-frou of a woman’s dress was the music of the spheres to him.

[122] The voice is doubtless a factor of the first importance in sexual attraction among the blind.  On this point I have no data.  The expressiveness of the voice to the blind, and the extent to which their likes and dislikes are founded on vocal qualities, is well shown by an interesting paper written by an American physician, blind from early infancy, James Cocke, “The Voice as an Index to the Soul,” Arena, January, 1894.

[123] Long before Darwin had set forth his theory of sexual selection Laycock had pointed out the influence which the voice of the male, among man and other animals, exerts on the female (Nervous Diseases of Women, p. 74).  And a few years later the writer of a suggestive article on “Woman in her Psychological Relations” (Journal of Psychological Medicine, 1851) remarked:  “The sonorous voice of the male man is exactly analogous in its effect on woman to the neigh and bellow of other animals.  This voice will have its effect on an amorous or susceptible organization much in the same way as color and the other visual ovarian stimuli.”  The writer adds that it exercises a still more important influence when modulated to music:  “in this respect man has something in common with insects as well as birds.”