gives pleasure to the woman, since he himself receives pleasure in contemplating a woman’s sexual parts.  His erotic dreams are of self-exhibition to young and voluptuous women.  He had been previously punished for an offense of this kind; medico-legal opinion now recognized the incriminated man’s psychopathic condition. (Krafft-Ebing, Op. cit., pp. 492-494.)

Trochon has reported the case of a married man of 33, a worker in a factory, who for several years had exhibited himself at intervals to shop-girls, etc., in a state of erection, but without speaking or making other advances.  He was a hard-working, honest, sober man of quiet habits, a good father to his family and happy at home.  He showed not the slightest sign of insanity.  But he was taciturn, melancholic and nervous; a sister was an idiot.  He was arrested, but on the report of the experts that he committed these acts from a morbid impulse he could not control he was released. (Trochon, Archives de l’Anthropologie Criminelle, 1888, p. 256.)

In a case of Freyer’s (Zeitschrift fuer Medizinalbeamte, third year, No. 8) the occasional connection of exhibitionism with epilepsy is well illustrated by a barber’s assistant, aged 35, whose father suffered from chronic alcoholism and was also said to have committed the same kind of offense as his son.  The mother and a sister suffered nervously.  From ages of 7 to 18 the subject had epileptic convulsions.  From 16 to 21 he indulged in normal sexual intercourse.  At about that time he had often to pass a playground and at times would urinate there; it happened that the children watched him with curiosity.  He noticed that when thus watched sexual excitement was caused, inducing erection and even ejaculation.  He gradually found pleasure in this kind of sexual gratification; finally he became indifferent to coitus.  His erotic dreams, though still usually about normal coitus, were now sometimes concerned with exhibition before little girls.  When overcome by the impulse he could see and hear nothing around him, though he did not lose consciousness.  After the act was over he was troubled by his deed.  In all other respects he was entirely reasonable.  He was imprisoned many times for exhibiting himself to young schoolgirls, sometimes vaunting the beauty of his organs and inviting inspection.  On one occasion he underwent mental examination, but was considered to be mentally sound.  He was finally held to be a hereditarily tainted individual with neuropathic constitution.  The head was abnormally broad, penis small, patellar reflex absent, and there were many signs of neurasthenia. (Krafft-Ebing, Op. cit., pp. 490-492.)

The prevalence of epilepsy among exhibitionists is shown by the observations of Pelanda in Verona.  He has recorded six cases of this perversion, all of which eventually reached the asylum and were either epileptics or with epileptic relations.