through my blood and my limbs tremble.  I would never grow tired of feeling that belly and looking at it.  My passion would express itself in tempestuous caresses, and the boy would have to assume various positions in order to show off the beauty of his form, i.e., to bring the parts in question into better view.  To observe defecation would still further increase this peculiar enjoyment.  If the boy’s bowels were not sufficiently filled I would feed him with all sorts of food which produces much excrement, such as potatoes, coarse bread, etc.  If possible I would seek to delay defecation for two or three days, so that it might be as copious as possible.  When at last it occurred it would be an unspeakable joy for me to watch the faeces—­which would have to be fairly firm—­emerging from the anus.”

X. would like to be a teacher and thinks he could exert a beneficial influence on boys.  In spite of the pain he has suffered he does not think he would like to be cured of his perverse inclinations, for they have given him joy as well as pain, and the pain has chiefly been owing to the fact that he could not gratify his inclinations.  X. smokes and drinks in moderation, and has no feminine habits. (The foregoing is a condensed summary of the case which is fully reported by Moll, Kontraere Sexualempfindung, third edition, pp. 295-305.)

The case of coprolagnia communicated to me is that of a married man, normal in all other respects, intellectually brilliant and filling successfully a very responsible position.  When a child the women of his household were always indifferent as to his presence in their bedrooms, and would satisfy all natural calls without reserve before him.  He would dream of this with erections.  His sexual interests became slowly centered in the act of defecation, and this fetich throughout life never appealed to him so powerfully as when associated with the particular type of household furniture which was used for this purpose in his own house.  The act of defecation in the opposite sex or anything pertaining to or suggesting the same caused uncontrollable sexual excitement; the nates also exerted a great attraction.  The alvine excreta exerted this influence even in the absence of the woman; it was, however, necessary that she should be a sexually desirable person.  The perversion in this case was not complete; that is to say, that the excitement produced by the act of defecation or the excretion itself was not actually preferred to coitus; the sexual idea was normal coitus in the normal manner, but preceded by the visual and olfactory enjoyment of the exciting fetich.  When coitus was not possible the enjoyment of the fetich was accompanied by masturbation (as in the analogous case of urolagnia in a woman summarized on p. 62.) On one occasion he was discovered by a friend in a bedroom belonging to a woman, engaged in the act of masturbation over a vessel containing