by more than two women at once, “just what is necessary,” he added, “for an exchange of impressions.”  After each exhibition he would ask himself anxiously:  “Did they see me?  What are they thinking?  What do they say to each other about me?  Oh! how I should like to know!” Another patient of Garnier’s, who haunted churches for this purpose, made this very significant statement:  “Why do I like going to churches?  I can scarcely say. But I know that it is only there that my act has its full importance.  The woman is in a devout frame of mind, and she must see that such an act in such a place is not a joke in bad taste or a disgusting obscenity; that if I go there it is not to amuse myself; it is more serious than that! I watch the effect produced on the faces of the ladies to whom I show my organs.  I wish to see them express a profound joy.  I wish, in fact, that they may be forced to say to themselves:  How impressive Nature is when thus seen!”

Here we trace the presence of a feeling which recalls the phenomena of the ancient and world-wide phallic worship, still liable to reappear sporadically.  Women sometimes took part in these rites, and the osculation of the male sexual organ or its emblematic representation by women is easily traceable in the phallic rites of India and many other lands, not excluding Europe even in comparatively recent times. (Dulaure in his Divinites Generatices brings together much bearing on these points; cf.:  Ploss and Bartels, Das Weib, vol. i, Chapter XVII, and Bloch, Beitraege zur Psychopathia Sexualis, Teil I, pp. 115-117.  Colin Scott has some interesting remarks on phallic worship and the part it has played in aiding human evolution, “Sex and Art,” American Journal of Psychology, vol. vii, No. 2, pp. 191-197.  Irving Rosse describes some modern phallic rites in which both men and women took part, similar to those practiced in vaudouism, “Sexual Hypochondriasis,” Virginia Medical Monthly, October, 1892.)

Putting aside any question of phallic worship, a certain pride and more or less private feeling of ostentation in the new expansion and development of the organs of virility seems to be almost normal at adolescence.  “We have much reason to assume,” Stanley Hall remarks, “that in a state of nature there is a certain instinctive pride and ostentation that accompanies the new local development.  I think it will be found that exhibitionists are usually those who have excessive growth here, and that much that modern society stigmatizes as obscene is at bottom more or less spontaneous and perhaps in some cases not abnormal.  Dr. Seerley tells me he has never examined a young man largely developed who had the usual strong instinctive tendency of modesty to cover himself with his hands, but he finds this instinct general with those whose development is less than the average.” (G.  Stanley Hall, Adolescence, vol. ii, p. 97.) This instinct