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THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHH^D
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NBW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO
DALLAS • SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limitbd
LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA
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THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Lm.
TORONTO
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF
THE CHILD
BY
DR. ALBERT MOLL
TBANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BT
DR. EDEN PAUL
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
EDWARD L. THORNDIKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
TXACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
Ää rights reserved
GOPTRiaHT, 1912,
BT THB BCAGMILLAN COMPANT,
S«t up and clactiotyped. Published June, Z9xa.
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Norwood, Mms^ U.S.A.
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INTRODUCTION
Db. Moll is a gifted physician of long experience wl
work with those problems of medicine and liygiene wliicli
demand scientific acquaintance with human nature has made
him well known to experts in these fields. In this book he has
UQdertakeii to describe the origin and development, in child-
hood and youth, of the acta and feelings due to sex ; to explain
tlie forces by which sex-responses are directed and misdirected ;
and to judge the wisdom of existing and proposed methods of
preventing the degradation of a child's sexual life.
This difficult task is carried out, as it should be, with dignity
and frankness. In spite of the best intentions, a scientific book
on sex-psychology is likely to appear, at least in spots, to
gratify a low curiosity ; but in Dr. Moll's book there is no
such taint. Popular books on sex-hygiene, on the other hand,
are likely to suffer from a pardonable but harmful delicacy
whereby the facts of anatomy, physiology, and psychology
which are necessary to make their principles comprehensible
and useful, are omitted, veiled, or even distorted. Dr. Moll
honors his readers by a frankness which may seem brutal to
BOme of thera. It is necessary.
With dignity and frankness Dr. Moll combines notable good
sense. In the case of any exciting movement in advance of
traditional custom, the forerunners are likely to combine a cer-
tain one-sidedness and lack of balance with their really valuable
progressive ideas. The greater sagacity and critical power are
more often found amongst the men of science who avoid public
discussion of exciting social or moral reforms, and are suspi-
cious of startling and revolutionary doctrines or practices. It
is therefore fortunate that a book on the sexual life during
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vi Introduction
childhood should have been written by a man of critical,
matter-of-fact mind, of long experience as a medical specialist,
and of wide scholarship, who has no private interest in any-
exciting psychological doctrine or educational panacea.
The translation of this book will be welcomed by men and
women from many different professions, but alike in the need
of preparation to guide the sex-life of boys and girls and to
meet emergencies caused by its corruption by weakness within
or attack from without. Of the clergymen in this country who
are in real touch with the lives of their charges, there is hardly
a one who does not, every so often, have to minister to a mind
whose moral and religious distress depends on an unfortunate
sex history. Conscientious and observant teachers realize, in
a dim way, that they cannot do justice to even the purely intel-
lectual needs of pupils without understanding the natural his-
tory of those instinctive impulses, which, concealed and falsified
as they are under our traditional taboos, nevertheless retain
enormous potency. The facts, so clearly shown in the present
volume, that the life of sex begins long before its obvious mani-
festations at puberty, and that the direction of its vaguer and
less differentiated habits in these earlier years is as important
as its hygiene at the more noticeable climax of the early 'teens,
increase the teacher's responsibility. Moreover, there is prob-
ably not a teacher of ten years' standing who has not faced —
or by ignorance neglected — some emergency where moderate
insight into the laws whereby the vague instincts of sex are
turned into healthy and unhealthy habits, and form right and
wrong attitudes, could have rescued a boy or girl from years of
wretched anxiety, or degraded conduct, or both.
The social worker, still more emphatically, knows his or her
need of a surer equipment for the wise direction of the life of
sex in childhood and its protection from the abominable sugges-
tions of those who are themselves sexually diseased or depraved.
The casual questioning of medical or legal friends, reminiscences
of vague references in the Bible or classic literature, and the
miscellaneous experiences which life itself throws in one's way,
are hopelessly inadequate.
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Introduction vii
The ooDBcientiouB practitioner of medicine, too, will gladly
add to the scanty, though accurate, knowledge of the sex-
mstinct and its pathology which is all that even the best medi-
cal course can compaaa, the facts presented by a specialist in
this field. The easiest way for those parents who accept the
responsibility for rational guidance of their children in matters
of aex-behavior to discharge this responsibility is by the aid of
the family physician. For the physician in such cases to gain
the child's confidence, understand his individual dangers and
possible false attitudes, and give more than perfunctory general
counsel, knowledge of the psychology of sex-behavior, as well
as its physiology, is necessary. In general, also, modern medi-
cal practice must look after the prevention of bad habits and
unnecessary anxieties in respect to tlie sex-life as well as their
cure; and the science of preventive medicine in this fluid
receives a substantial contribution from this summary of the
sex-life of childhood.
There are now many men and women who are dissatisfied
with doing for their children merely what outgrown customs
decree, who are willing to give time and study, as well as
money and affection, in their service, and who are eager to see
or hear or read anything pertinent to their welfare. For many
auch parents, if they are of the scientific, matter-of-fact type.
Dr. Moll's book may prove the means of answering many trou-
blesome questions and of prompting to a wiser cooperation with
church, school, and the medical profeflsion in safeguarding
their own — and, we may hope, all other — children against
blunders and contaminations.
One word of caution is perhaps necessary for those readers
who are unused to descriptions of symptoms of diseases, abnor-
malities, and defects. Such readers are likely to interpret per-
fectly ordinary facts as the symptoms which they have been
Btudying. So the medical student at the beginning of his read-
ing, fears appendicitis when he has slight indigestion, and
incipient tuberculosis in every household I So the embryonic
pflychologist finds 'degenerates' in every crowd of boys, 'hyp-
jlQtK suggestion ' in every popular preacher, and ' aphasia ' in
Introduction
any friend who forgets names and faces ! Dr. Moll gives more
protection against such exaggerated inferences than is com-
monly given in books on pathology, but many of his readers
will do well to be on their guard lest they interpret perfectly
innocent behavior as a symptom of abnormality. The mis-
chief done by our present ignorance and neglect of important
features of sex-behavior should be prevented without the inci-
dence of mischief from exaggerated expectations and unwise
meddling.
It would be evasive to shirk mention of the fact that many
of the most devoted servants of health and morals object to
public discussion of the facts of sex. They discard enlighten-
ment about sex as relatively unimportant because a clean ances-
try, decency in the family and neighborhood, and noble needs
in friendship, love, and marriage must, in any case, be the main
roots of healthy direction and ideal restraint of the sex-instinct.
Or they fear enlightenment aa a possible stimulus to undesirable
imagination and experimentation. Or they dislike, even abhor,
it as esthetically repulsive — shocking to an unreasoned but
cherished craving for silence about these things — a craving
which the customs of our land and time have made an unwrit-
ten law of society.
Of the first of these three attitudes, it may be said briefly that
the relative unimportance of enlightenment is a fact, but no
argument against it. Modesty, austerity, and clean living on
the part of parents will counterbalance much negligence in
direct guidance or protection. But the former need be in no
wise lessened by improving the latter. Of the second, I dare
affirm that if the men and women in America should stop what-
ever they are doing for an evening and read this book, there
would be less harmful imagination as a result than from the
occupations which its reading would replace. Of all the causes
of sexual disorder, the reading of scientific books by reputable
men is surely the least! The third — that is, the esthetic —
repulsion toward publicity in respect to the natural history of
sex, I will not pretend to judge. Only we must not strain at
gnats and. swallow camels. It is no sign of true esthetic or
Introduction ix
moral sensitiveness for a person to be shocked by * Ghosts,*
* Mrs. Warren's Profession,' or * The Sexual Life of the Child,'
who finds pleasant diversion in the treatment of sex-behavior in
the ordinary novel, newspaper, or play.
On the whole, the gain from giving earnest men and women
the facts they need, seems likely to outweigh by much the harm
done to such light minds as will be misled, or to such senti-
mental minds as will be wounded, by enlightenment about sex.
No harm will be done to those men and women whose interest
in the welfare of children makes them eager to face every prob-
lem that it involves, and whose faith in the ideal possibilities of
love between the sexes is too well-grounded to be disturbed by
the facts of its natural history.
EDWARD L. THORNDIKE.
]£at, 1912.
PREFACE
The number of books and essays dealing with sexual topics
published during recent years is by no means small ; but
although some of the works in question have added consider-
ably to our knowledge, the advance of sexual science as a
whole has not been proportionate to the extent of these con-
tributions. The reason is that insufficient attention has been
paid to special problems; and the majority of writers have
either repeated what has already been said by another, in
identical or equivalent words, or else they have published
comprehensive treatises on the sexual life, which may, perhaps,
be of interest to the laity, but do not in any way enrich our
science. Further advances in our knowledge of the sexual
life can be effected only by the investigation of special prob-
lems. Such work is, indeed, laborious ; but that it is also
fruitful, has been clearly shown, not only in the first instance
by von Krafft-Ebing, but more recently, above all, by Havelock
Ellis, whose special studies have contributed more to the
advance of sexual science than the work of dozens of other
writers.
The recognition of the need for speciaUsed investigations
has led me, in this province of scientific work as in other
departments, to devote myself to the elucidation of certain
definite problems. For several reasons I determined to study
the sexual life of the child. In the first place, I believe that
an advance in our knowledge of the sexual life of the child
will indirectly enrich our knowledge also of the sexual life of
the adult. In order to understand the sexual life, the gradual
development of that life must be recognised, and for this pur-
pose it is essential that we should study the sexual life of the
child. Moreover, the modern movement in favour of the
sexual enlightenment of young persons renders indispensable
the possession of precise knowledge of the sexuality of the
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xii Preface
child ; and such knowledge is no less necessary to all instruc-
tors of youth, especially to those to whom the psychical life of
children is a matter of concern. Judges and magistrates also,
as we shall see in the seventh chapter, are very greatly in-
terested in this matter : it is, in fact, hardly open to question
that erroneous legal decisions and the unjust condemnation of
reputed criminals can only be avoided by giving our judicial
authorities the opportunity of obtaining sound knowledge
concerning the sexual life of children in all its modes of mani-
festation. By all these considerations I have been induced to
study the problem of the sexuality of children from the most
widely different points of view. Although other writers, such
as Freud, Bell, and Kötscher, have contributed certain data
towards the solution of these questions, no comprehensive study
of the subject has hitherto been attempted. My material does
not consist only of the reports of patients. In addition, in
order to avoid a one-sided dependence upon pathological con-
siderations, I have accepted with greater confidence the reports
concerning the sexual life of children which I have received
from healthy individuals, both men and women. I take this
opportunity of tendering my most heartfelt thanks to all those
who have assisted me in this manner.
ALBERT MOLL
L Iktboductohy and Historical
SnbdiyiBlona of the Period of Childbood— The Notion of Pu-
berty — Methods of Investigation.
Rouaaeau and Tissot — The Philanthropes — -Medical Literature —
The Older Pay cholo^y— History of Civilisation— Studies of Pros-
titution — Works on Zoology — Biograpliiea — Bellelristic Literature
— Erotic Literature — Studios of Sexual Perversiona — Hecent Special
Besearches — D laries.
n. The Reproductive Okoans — Thi: Sexual Impulse .
The Male Eeproductive Organs— Erection— Ejaculation — The
Voluptuous Scnsitioii— Female lieproductivo Organs— Menstrua-
tion and Ovulation — Peripheral Processes, Erection, Ejaculation,
and Voluptuous Sensation, in tlie Female — The Reproductive Or-
gans in Children.
Component« of the Sexaal Impulse — Excitement of the Sexual
Impulse— The Sexual Impulse and tUe Voluptuous Seuaalion.
IIL Sexual Differ estiation in CeiLDHooo ....
Secondary Sexual Characters— First Period of Childhood — Sec-
ond Period of Childhood— Psychical Diffci'ences in Children — The
Teachings of Experluiental Psychology — The Teachings of Empi-
rical Psychology (^ETfahrungspeychologity^lnborn Character of
Sexual DifCerencea — Pathological Experiences — Criminological Ex-
IVr Symptomatology
Erections in the Child — Ejaculation — Origin of Ejaculation —
Volnptuous Sensation.
The Undifferentiated Sexual Impulse — Examples — Phenomena
o( Contreotation in the Child — The Object of Desire — Romaaticlsm
— Manifestations of Love — Jealousy— Loye-Lettera and Lova-
Poems — Vanity — Shaine — Differencea between Boys and Girls —
Changes in the Object of Desire.
xiv Contents
OHAP. PAOB
Interdependence of the Processes of Contrectation and Detumes-
cence — ^Temporal Relationship between these respective Processes.
Masturbation — ^The Voluptuous Sensation — Modes of Masturba-
tion — Erogenic Zones — Comparison between Boys and Girls.
Ejaculation as a Consequence of Feelings of Anxiety — ^Pollu-
tions — Madame Roland's Description — Individual Difference»-^
Sexual Phenomena in the Youth of the Lower Animals.
The Teachings of Castration —
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