tool I had missed, and I heard a door open on the other side, and saw a light glimmer through the cracks of the boards.  I looked through to ascertain who could be there at that late hour, and soon recognized the stately figure of one of the daughters, F.F. was tall, dark and handsome, but had never made any advances to me, nor had I to her.  She was making love to her father’s mare after a singular fashion.  Stripping her right arm, she formed her fingers into a cone, and pressed on the mare’s vulva.  I was astonished to see the beast stretching her hind legs as if to accommodate the hand of her mistress, which she pushed in gradually and with seeming ease to the elbow.  At the same time she seemed to experience the most voluptuous sensation, crisis after crisis arriving.”  My correspondent adds that, being exceedingly curious in the matter, he tried a somewhat similar experiment himself with one of his father’s mares and experienced what he describes as “a most powerful sexual battery” which produced very exciting and exhausting effects.  Naecke (Psychiatrische en Neurologische Bladen, 1899, No. 2) refers to an idiot who thus manipulated the vulva of mares in his charge.  The case has been recorded by Guillereau (Journal de Medicine Veterinaire et de Zootechnie, January, 1899) of a youth who was accustomed to introduce his hand into the vulva of cows in order to obtain sexual excitement.

The possibility of sexual excitement between women and animals involves a certain degree of sexual excitability in animals from contact with women.  Darwin stated that there could be no doubt that various quadrumanous animals could distinguish women from men—­in the first place probably by smell and secondarily by sight—­and be thus liable to sexual excitement.  He quotes the opinions on this point of Youatt, Brehm, Sir Andrew Smith and Cuvier (Descent of Man, second edition, p. 8).  Moll quotes the opinion of an experienced observer to the same effect (Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis, Bd. i, p. 429).  Hufeland reported the case of a little girl of three who was playing, seated on a stool, with a dog placed between her thighs and locked against her.  Seemingly excited by this contact the animal attempted a sort of copulation, causing the genital parts of the child to become inflamed.  Bloch (Op. cit., p. 280, et seq.) discusses the same point; he does not consider that animals will of their own motion sexually cohabit with women, but that they may be easily trained to it.  There can be no doubt that dogs at all events are sometimes sexually excited by the presence of women, perhaps especially during menstruation, and many women are able to bear testimony to the embarrassing attentions they have sometimes received from strange dogs.  There can be no difficulty in believing that, so far as cunnilinctus is concerned dogs would require no training.  In a case recorded by Moll (Kontraere Sexualempfindung, third