[20] Moll has reported in detail (Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis, bd. i, Teil II, pp. 320-324) a case which both he and Krafft-Ebing regard as illustrative of the connection between boot-fetichism and masochism.  It is essentially a case of masochism, though manifesting itself almost exclusively in the desire to perform humiliating acts in connection with the attractive person’s boots.

[21] Krafft-Ebing goes so far as to assert (Psychopathia Sexualis, English translation of tenth edition, p. 174) that “when in cases of shoe-fetichism the female shoe appears alone as the excitant of sexual desire one is justified in presuming that masochistic motives have remained latent....  Latent masochism may always be assumed as the unconscious motive.”  In this way he hopelessly misinterprets some of his own cases.

[22] Krafft-Ebing goes so far as to assert (Psychopathia Sexualis, English translation, pp. 159 and 174).  Yet some of the cases he brings forward (e.g., Coxe’s as quoted by Hammond) show no sign of masochism, since, according to Krafft-Ebing’s own definition (p. 116), the idea of subjugation by the opposite sex is of the essence of masochism.

[23] Her actions suggest that there is often a latent sexual consciousness in regard to the feet in women, atavistic or pseudo-atavistic, and corresponding to the sexual attraction which the feet formerly aroused, almost normally, in men.  This is also suggested by the case, referred to by Shufeldt, of an unmarried woman, belonging to a family exhibiting in a high degree both erotic and neurotic traits, who had “a certain uncontrollable fascination for shoes.  She delights in new shoes, and changes her shoes all day long at regular intervals of three hours each.  She keeps this row of shoes out in plain sight in her apartment.” (R.W.  Shufeldt, “On a Case of Female Impotency,” 1896, p. 10.)

III.

Scatalogic Symbolism—­Urolagnia—­Coprolagnia—­The Ascetic Attitude Towards the Flesh—­Normal basis of Scatalogic Symbolism—­Scatalogic Conceptions Among Primitive Peoples—­Urine as a Primitive Holy Water—­Sacredness of Animal Excreta—­Scatalogy in Folk-lore—­The Obscene as Derived from the Mythological—­The Immature Sexual Impulse Tends to Manifest Itself in Scatalogic Forms—­The basis of Physiological Connection Between the Urinary and Genital Spheres—­Urinary Fetichism Sometimes Normal in Animals—­The Urolagnia of Masochists—­The Scatalogy of Saints—­Urolagnia More Often a Symbolism of Act Than a Symbolism of Object—­Only Occasionally an Olfactory Fetichism—­Comparative Rarity of Coprolagnia—­Influence of Nates Fetichism as a Transition to Coprolagnia—­Ideal Coprolagnia—­Olfactory Coprolagnia—­Urolagnia and Coprolagnia as Symbols of Coitus.