Encyclopedia Of Unusual Sex Practices

NYMPHOPH I LIA 185 OBSCENE PHONE CA LLERS Molesta ti on creates special concerns for Abnormal aggressive behavior the young victim as well. It is recommended that a child first be reassured that the inci- The Nationa l Center fo r Missing and dent was the full responsibility of the other Exploited Children can offer additional person. The child can then be encouraged, in fo rmation and m ay be reached at 1-800- but n ot forced, t o discuss a n y deta ils or 843-5678. question s in order to bring a closure to the incident. P rofessional therapy is particularly (See also I NCEST, NEP IO PH lLIA and ben eficial when the molestation involved PEDOPHILIA) force or wh en the adult is nowhere near the age of the child. NYMPHOTOMY Nymphotomies are surgical procedures that cut away tl1e inner The following symptoms may exhibit labia. The shrinking scar tissue served to themselves in the case of a sexually abused restrict the size of the vaginal opening, child: making sex more pleasurable for some men. This procedu re was done on some African Sudden increase in sexual behavior gi rl s from four weeks to four years old . Emotional withdrawal or distancing (See also CIRCUMCISION, CLITORIDEC- TOMY and INFIBULATION) 0 OBSCENE PHONE CALLERS (Tele- time will place periodic calls as a method of phone scatologia and Telephon-icophilia- aro usal maintenance. T h ey d on't have to arousal from talking about sex o n the keep th e victim on the phone to be a ble to phone) An obscene phone call is one that is orgasm, the very act of call ing someone and made to a nonconsenting victi m for the pur- hearing their voice is enough of an emo- pose of sexual arousal. Female callers differ ti onal c harge for so me. H owever, m ost in that they mo re often use these calls for prefer to orgasm while the other pe rson is revenge or excitement rather than as an aid on the line. to masturbation. Obscene callers are normally perceived Obscene callers may deploy techniques as having motives of aggression, dominance, such as immediately hanging up, breathing seduction of the victim, or ridding them- in to the phone until the other party hangs selves of a feeling of inadequacy. It is true up, conducting a survey that often lead s to that aggression, fear, and a need for power provocative questions, pretending they know or dominance sometimes colors the motive the victim, saying they mis-dialed, or simply of a caller. H owever, this is just as true for begi nni ng with sexually explicit com ments many \"normal\" sexual encounters. In addi- or threats. Callers often adapt to suit the sit- tion, the caller has both a need for closeness uation. For instance, if the caller places calls and a fear of intimacy; making anonymous to public service hotlines tl1at a nswer ques- calls while masturbating resolves this tions about sexually transmitted diseases he dile mma. will sta rt by prete nding to be naive. Typical questions are: \"Can you get a disease by T he typ e of therapy that is recom- masturbating)\" \"No, well then what do you mended for those needing to en d the obses- have to do?\" The questions continue until sion is behavioral and psychodynamic the o p erator becomes wise to the delayed (raising se lf- esteem). I n addition, the response time and labored dialogue. twelve-step program called \"Sex and L ove Add icts Anonymous\" provides an inexpen- Some callers u se sce narios such as lying sive group support environment and may be back on their bed with something to drink, the first step in reinforcing social interac- their favorite selection of music, erotic mag- tion. azi ncs, videos, and a telephone list. The caller may take several hours and during this Females who receive these calls often feel victi mized or sexuall y viola ted. The most

OBS CENE PHON E CAL LERS 186 ODO NTO PHILIA recommended cour se of action when OCULOPHILIA (Strabismu s) Oculo - receiving a call is to simply hang up without philia (oculo: eye, philia: attachment to) saying anything that might reinforce the refers to people wh o are sexually arou sed by caller. If the caller persists in redialing the the eyes of a p artner. For instance, number and the victim has a \"call for- D escartes was primarily attracted to women warding\" feature on their phone they can who squinted. temporarily forwa rd their calls to a male friend. Many p eople realize that a person 's pupils will enlarge when they see something (See als o ACOUSTICOPHILIA, AGREX- or someone to wh om they are attracted. T o OPH ILIA, COPROLAUA, JACT ITATIO N, capitalize on this European women until not NARRATOPHILIA, PHONE SEX and SEX HOT- long ago put che m ica ls (o riginally bel- LINES) ladonn a, which m eans \" pretty woman\") in their eyes to cause them to dil ate so that OCHLOPHILIA (Gregomulcia-to be they would appear aroused by their suitors. fondled in a crowd) Ochlophilia (ochlos: a Today's advertisers use this to their advan- mob, p opulace, ph ilia: attachment to) refers tage when photographing models. to those who are sexually arou sed by the p resen ce of a crowd. This m ay include T here is one instance of a m ore physical orgies where people are surrounded by sexual display and this seems to involve others having sex, or large gatherings where novelty rather than a fetish or true attraction performers and revellers are semi-nude and to the eye. A prostitute in the Philippines pressed against one another. Some fe el gained notoriety fo r soliciting men to pene- co mpelled to seize the opp ortun ity tha t trate her eye socket after removing h er glass anonymity offers in a crowd and grope eye. th ose n ear them. Hirschfeld wrote of t h e problem a few pries ts endured when (See also LAC T AP HILI A, NASOPHILIA, Londo n first opened the underground train OCULOLINCTUS, ODONTOPHILIA, PHAL- system (tube) causing them to uncontrol- L OPI-IILIA and TESTICLES) lably ejaculate because they were unaccus- tomed to warm bodies pressing against ODONTOPHILIA (Gomphipothic) them from all sides. Odontophilia (Odonto, tooth; philia, attach- ment to) refers to sexual arousal involving (See also GROUP SEX, HOMILOPI-llLIA and teeth. P O LY ! T E R O PH I L IA) M arquis de Sade claimed that his works OCULOLINCTUS Oculolinctus (oculo: were based on the sex life of others, many of eye, a nd linctus: lick) refer s to th e act of wh ich wer e documented. One of the sex licking a partner's eyeball for sexual arousal. acts he wrote of was tooth extraction . The passage reads, This seem s to be rare b ut there are several [l]he passion of Boniface is also singular. H e cases includi ng o ne loves pulling oui ihe ieeth of his victims, while repor ted of a fe m a le fucking ihem and being simultaneously sodom- who in order to orgasm ized. One who becomes the viciim of these gen- wo uld have to lick the tlemen is Fosine, fourteen years old, with a eyeb all of h er obliging beautiful form and a rich family. She promises male lover. CAUTION: the ideal combination of lust and profit. Both Oral herpes (cold sores) Boniface and Chrysostome wish to indulge can be transferred to themselves with her, and after pulling out her the eye. thirty-two beautiful teeth, she is subjected to the Superio r, who immolates her in his own (See also ANAL fashion. SEX/ ANA L!NCTUS, CUNNILINGUS, FEL- LATIO, LACTAPHILI A, NASOP HI LIA and It is very doubtful that anyone today prac- OCULOPHILIA) ti ces odontophilia in this form; however, it

ODONTOPH ILI A 187 OLFA C TION is p ossible that an occasion al tooth extrac- N egroes a n d m ixed races again st white tion scene occurred in 179 7 when de Sade folks. Thus it has been reported that to the wrote his book. Ni trous oxide and ether M asa i (an African tribe) every stranger is were not used to extract teeth u ntil 1840 hateful fro m the start; an d this hatred goes and Novocain. was not prod u ced until the so far tha t u p on smelling the approaching begi nning of this century; therefore, people stranger such r epugnance is aroused that duri ng de Sade's lifeti me were accustomed a romatic h erbs must b e held to the nose.\" to havin g their teeth rem oved without effec- H e then goes on to quote a white French tive pain killers. physician who married a Negro woman from H aiti, \"wh o, according to his own The pulling of teeth may be aro using exp ression, intoxicated him by her perfume. even with the advent of anesthesia as noted \" I cannot understand,\" he says, \" love with a in Erich von S troheim 's film Greed. H er e white wo man . Sh e is insipid and odorless\" the beau tiful patient is kissed by her dentist (p p. 404-405). as the blood still flows fro m her mouth (Sex and Superstition, by G.L. Simons, pp. 87- T he effect of odor can be enhanced by 88, rep rodu ced with permission of Blackie several methods. Fast and Bernstein claim & Son Ltd.). tha t \" the com bination of scent and massage is a heady experience. Stimulating the olfac- (See also LACTAPHILIA, NASOPHIL!A, tor y center under the erotic stimulus of OCULOLINCT US, PHAL LOPHILI A, TEST I- touch can evoke an e motional response, free CLES and YON! WORSHIP) a p erson to some d egree and allow a natural chemistry to occur ... Masseurs are usually OLFACTION (Antholagnia-arousal aware of this hedonic effect, and to avoid it fr o m smelli n g fl owers, Ba r osmia, th ey will u se on ly un scented oils dur ing O lfactophilia, O sm olagnia, Osphresiolagnia massage. ' Scented oils arouse my patients, and Ozolagnia- arousal from strong sm ells, men and women,' a p ro fession al masseu r Reni.fluer-arousal from smell of urine) told us. 'I just can 't handle that. I use a very light mineral oil, warmed up, and I don't O lfaction (olfac to: to sm ell) refe r s to allow scen ts anywher e in my stud io!\"' peop le's ability to smell odors. Certain (Sexual Chemistry, by J uliu s Fast and molecules dissolve onto hairlike cilia recep - Meredith Bernstein, p . 67). tors that extend down fro m the olfactor y bulb of the brain and into th e nasal cavity People engaging in bon dage often fi nd (Senses and Sensibilities, by Jillyn Smith, p. the use of worn u nderwear stuffed into the 96). I t would be d ifficult to imagine life mouth as a gag to be m ore arousing than without smell. Astronauts h ave fou nd it so th e u su al p las ti c or leath er appa r atus. disturbing that they carry scented ch emicals Se nso ry deprivatio n such as blindfolding, with them to counteract the n egative effects. silence, or a lack of touch also inte nsify the person's reaction. A person with a fetish Differences in od or have sometimes been often prefers the smell of one part of the attributed a p erson 's race [alth ough mo re body over the other s. If they have a foot fetish, they prefer the od or of feet or shoes, likely it is their diet]. J.A. and men with a breast fetish prefer the odor Rogers, in his book, Sex given fro m the areola glands. Other fetish and R ace, quoted ! wa n odors include feces, urine, leather, hair , etc. Block, no ted sexo logist, The odor of their love object appears to be \"wh o made a stud y of learned along with the image of the object. the sexual attraction a nd It is also possible tha t much of what people repulsion of the odors of attribute to odor is actually the result of ou r the various races,\" and being able to detect pheromones through wh o said , \" It is this the vomeronasal organ in our n ose. strongly u n p leasant odor of the black race which is one of th e c hief (See also PHEROMONES) reasons for the antipathy be tween N egroes and whites.. . . On the other hand, the same antipathy seems to be entertained by

OPHIDICISM 188 ORGASMS OPHIDICISM Ophidicism (ophidi: clonic and does end in ejaculation and snake) refers to people wh o use reptiles. detumescence. The snake in the form of a circle biting its own tail has been a representation of sex Normal (or \"fusion\") orgasms adhere to since early Egyptian civilization. The snake the fo llowi ng ph ysiological respon ses for represented the male organ and the ring that each sex. it formed symbolized the vagina. MALE FEMALE Today one finds magazines and movies Tensed muscles, increase Same available of women who insert snakes or eels in heart rate and blood tail first into their vaginas and masturbate as pressure, nipple erection the creature wriggles to get free. Slow moving snakes that don't bite are used for Penis becomes erect, Clitoris becomes erect, this form of sex. Ancient Roman women scrotum elevates; and labia majora testes pulls differed only in that become enlarged they inserted the snakes away from vagina, labia head fi rst. CAUTION: minora enlarges, lubrica People can contract tion begins, vagina salmon ella from amphi- expands and lengthens, bians and reptiles. uterus doubles in size, (See also BEE STINGS, breasts enlarge FORMICOPHILIA and ZOO PHILIA) Muscle tension becomes Same more evident, heart rate, ORAL SEX See CUNNILINGUS and FEL- blood pressure and LATIO breathing increases, sex flush ORGASMS (Acmegenesis) There is no generally accepted operative definition of Corona increases in size, Clitoris shortens, color orgas m . Webster's Third New International erection becomes more of labia deepens, lubri- Dictionmy defines orgasm as: \" ... intense stable, testicles enlarge cation slows, areola or paroxysmal emotional excitement; the to three times original (area around nipple) climax of sexual excitement typically occur- size and elevate to body, swells ring toward the end of coitu s; usually secretions may become accompan ied in the male by ejaculation. \" evident According to this definition, ejaculation, which many v iew as the orgasm itself, is Involuntary muscle Same rather an accompanying act of orgasm . A spasms, including anal variety of consensus on orgasm now exists s p hin cter among sexologists. Seminal fluid is collected Muscle contractions Lila V. Powers, Ph .D. and Michael E. Perry, Ph.D. have studied orgasm physi- into urethral bulb then with orgasm including ology in a laboratory and conducted su rveys expelled with more muscle vagina and uterus for several years. Their studies lead them to spasms believe that there are at least four types of orgasms: plateau, tonic, clonic, fusion. The Muscles relax, breathing, Same plateau has whole body intensity but does heart rate and blood not include ejaculation and detumescence. Tonic orgasms are felt in the pelvic muscles pressure return to normal, and do not include ejaculation or detumes- nipples slowly decrease in cence. The sensations for clonic orgasm are size, color and size of felt primarily in the genital region, and the genitals return to normal fusion orgasm includes p lateau, tonic, and (Handout of the San Francisco Sex Information Switchboard training program) Orgasm is attainable throughout most o f our lives. It has been achieved as early as six months old and by the age of five Kinsey reported that 50% of all boys could reach orgasm. Of course, this is without ejaculate because males do not produce sperm until they are between the ages of eleven and sev- en te e n .

OR G ASMS 189 ORGASMS Orgasmic sensations vary according to q u ently with transcendental and a ffective the degree of emotional , biochemical, or ones.\" People who were vic tims of accidents p sychological inten sity; m ost are within our or sudden ill ness are more ofte n t he ones power to regu lat e. Dr. Alexa nder L owen wh ose life flas hes before them (\"A d escribed an orgasmic experien ce \"as the Typology of Near-Death Experiences,\" by opening of a dam, with the release down- Bruce G reyson, M.D., American J ournal of ward of a flood o f feeling while the b o dy Psychiatry 142:8, August 1985, pp. 967- convulses as a unit in response to each 969). involuntary forward swing of th e p elvis. F eelings of melting and streaming d own- People can enter an altered state by many ward now pervade the whole body. If the different methods. Timothy L eary in a acme is intense enough , the sensation o f Playboy interview claimed that \" In a care- heat increases a nd is per ceived as a glow in fu 11 y prepare d , loving LSD sess io n , a the pelvis and as an ove rall body sensation woman can have several hundred orgasms.\" of lu minat ion\" (Love and Orgasm, by In order to create this same trance-like state Al exander Lowen, M.D., pp. 197-198) . there are often (but not always) two stages of prepar ation required . The first phase The fo llowing sections list various cate- generally prepares the mind by using such gories of orgasms people claim to experi- depri vations as wat er, food, sleep , sex, or ence al ong with de script ions of the complete inhibition of senses (sight, sound, associated sensations. touch, smell, and taste). Deprivation alone can trigger hallucinations or an altered state. ALTERED STATE ORGASMS An altered People wh o use sh orter term deprivation state orgasm is believed to occur when the often induce it through p hysical injury or brain's level of serotonin is exc essively high. flagellation . A similar method is u sed b y The effects of an altered state of conscious- various military offic ials in their torture of ness or \"near-death experien ce\" have been captives. Deprivation and pain causes an divided into components and a person m ay increase of serotonin and once this chemical experience all or a combination of these. A reaches an abn ormally h igh level, the pris- study of 89 near-death experiences was con- oner goes into an altered state of conscious- ducted by Bruce Greyson that computed ness. the percentages of each of these compo- n e n ts. \" A cogniti ve co mp o n e nt [1 5%), P eople ofte n h ave a n orgasm as they including time distortion, thought accelera- approach the altered state, reducing their tion, life review, a nd sudden understanding; energy and serotonin level cau sing the expe- an affective component [41 %], comprising rience to end. For this reason some have feelings of peace, joy, and cosmic unjty and learned to negate the orgasm by physically an experien ce of a brillia nt light; a para- altering their penis with stretching or other normal component [?], incl uding enh anced methods to guaran tee an o rgasm n ever vision or h earing, apparent extrasensory occurs. Shamans gave up their sex lives so perception, precognitive vision, and an out- that the physical orgasm wouldn't interfere of-body experience; and a transcendental with their ability to obtain an altered state. component [4 7%], comprising encounte rs with an appare ntly unearthly realm, a m ys- T h e Catholic m ystics u sed a diffe rent tical being, and visible spirits and a barrier discipline to reach an altered state. P aul or point of no return that, had the subjects Kurtz, a scholar in this field, claimed that crossed it , wo uld have precluded their religious mystics had to have two striking return to life.\" G reyson further d iscovered ingredients present. \"First, there is repres- that \" near-death events in which death sion and frustration, a sense that pleasures might have been anticipated (e.g., suicide of the flesh , especially sexu al enj oyments, attempts, exacerbation s of chronic illness, or are evil and sinful. Second , there is an complications of surgery) were associated apparent form of sublim a ti on and som e rarely with cognitive experiences but fre- sexual g ratification in the m ystical encounter . .. Very few, if any, of the prominent m ystics led a normal m arried or

O R GASM S 190 O R GASMS sexu al life: the mystical life in a sense grew en trails; when he drew it out, he seemed to ou t of pertu rbation an d perversion. It draw them out also and t o leave m e all on expressed a p athological response to the fire with a great Jove of God . The pain was need fo r sexual fulfillm ent, by means of a so great that it made me moan; and yet so d e fl ected disc h a r ge of the libido\" (The surpassing was the sweetness of this exces- Transcenden tal Temptation, pp. 99- 100, u sed sive p ain that I cou ld not wish to be rid of it. with permission of Prometheu s Books). The soul is sati sfied now with nothing less than God \" (Mysticism/New York: World/ The sexual na ture of this state is fu rther Meridian, 1972). evident by their use of the Song of Songs (o r Song of Solomon) as the text for m ys- St. Theresa's sadomasochist bent was tical ascent and union with G od. Pete r de evid e n tly a comm on feature o f m ed ieval R osa, a Jesuit, explained th at this allowed monastic liter acu re. Rosa mond Gild er, in \"Ch ristia n mystic ism to d r a>v u pon and discussing Hrotsvitha, a nun and playwright sublimate erotic energies .. . T h e celibate from 9 5 0 C.E., says \" in two p lays, male can turn his affection to the person o f H rotsvitha gives expression to a vein of the Virgin M ary as his ' lady', in order to sadism, which is also associated with certain repress real sexu ality with women . Spiritual aspects of re pression . She positively r evels ero ticism is to be directed to t h e higher, in the lurid and suggestive details of her tor- spiri tual fe min ine that elevated and trans- cure scenes ... nu ns were suckled on tales fo rmed the soul, rather than to the debasi ng, of torture and m artyrdom, and the m ore ca rnal female\" (Vicars of Christ p . 14 7). b oiling oil, fier y furn aces, severed lim b s, and bleeding wounds a tale provided, the \\'\\!hat d oes one feel or see d uring a mys- greater t h e thrill . .. Undoubtedly also, tical altered state? Individuals experience Hrotsvitha obtained a certain release for her diffe rent hallucinations, several of which are own em otional suppressions by ela borating cited as follows. St Fra n cis o f Sales (died these p ictures of carnal d angers and the pit- 1622) d escribed his m ystical experiences by falls of the flesh\" (Enter the Actress, pp. 34- saying they were, \" as melted balm that no 5) . longer has firmn ess or solid ity, the soul lets herself pass or flow into What she loves: she Au tosadism a nd self-flage lla ti on were does not sp ring out of herself as by a used by religious mystics, as well as by those sud d en leap, nor d oes she cling as by a simply seeking an altered state of conscious- joining or union, b ut gen tly glides, as a fluid ness for sexual pleasu re. There were many a nd liquid thing, into the Divini ty Who m mon ks who fl age llated t hemselves with she loves. She goes ou t by that sacred out- ca nes o r w h ips. A D ominican m on k, flowing and ho ly liqu efaction, a nd qu its her- H ei nr ic h Su zo (1 30 0-1 366), wrote abo ut self, n ot only to be united to the h is ex p er ie n ces in a n auto b iograph y. H e well- Beloved, bu t to be entirely mi ngled began practicing extrem e asceticism and with and steeped in H im. T he outflowing of tortu re as a tool in overcoming temptations. a soul into her God is a true ecstasy, by H e fou nd that \" he was able to achieve fre- which the soul qu ite transcends the limits of qu ent, even daily ecstasies. However, a time her natural way of existence, being wholly fi nall y arrived when the bleeding saint real- m ingled with, absorbed a nd engulfed in , he r ized he could not continue in his p ath and God\" (The Transcendemal Temptation, by still live. ' H e was so wasted that the on ly Paul Kurtz, p. 96, used with permission of choice was between dying and giving up Prometheus Boo ks) . these practices. ' At this point, he tells u s, h e threw all of his instruments of torture into a Another exam ple of a C hristian mystical stream\" (The Transcendental Temptation, ex p erie n ce is t h at of St. Theresa. She 1986. pp. 99-100, used with permission of describes it as seeing \"an angel close by me, Prom etheus Books). on my left side, in bodily form . . . in h is ha nd a long spear o f gold , a nd at the iron's T oday, many people who practice the point t here seemed to be a li ttle fire. H e m ore 'pain ful' fo rm of S/M do it to induce appeared to me to be thrusting it at tim es this alte red state and view it as a spiritu al into m y heart, a nd to pierce m y very connection rather than explicitly sexual.

ORGASMS 191 ORGASMS ASTRAL ORGASMS An astral orgasm pubic bone to the tail bone. A person even- refers to a person ' s consciousness leaving tually learns to· control muscle contractions their physical body and traveling in their to attain the results listed above. astral body. Astral projection is practiced by several occult groups. According to these One of the exercises mentioned in t his people it is p ossible to teach steps one can book involves partial retention of semen use to project oneself into an astral plane at during orgasm, this giving a man the ability will. However, we are referring here to the to orgasm two to six times during inter- unintentional experience of traveling course. The Brauers call this type of male through the universe or to distant areas of multiple orgasm \"seminal fluid retention \" the earth. This experience is caused by and describe explicit instructions for accom- extraordinarily intense emotions felt during plishing this feat. Part of the exercise sex. The reported cases of astral projection involves h olding one's breath and squeezing occurring during orgasm have involved the PC muscles until ejaculation is stopped either a psychic or an unsusp ecting sex (ESQ - Extended Sexual Orgasm, by Alan partner of a psychic. [Author's n ote: This phenomenon is not the type that can be ver- P . Brauer, M.D., and Donna J. Brauer, pp. ified by science and for that reason we can do nothing m ore than mention that this type 56-7). of orgasm has been reported by several people.] FUSION ORGASMS The \"fusion\" orgasm is reached by stimulating two or more EXTENDED SEXUAL ORGASMS (ESO) erogenous zones which each create a dif- Many people have become interested in ferent sensation, thereby intensifying the extending the length of their orgasms since orgasmic experience. the 1983 publication of the Brauers' book, People learn this technique by manually titled Extended Sexual Orgasm. stimulating different parts o f the bod y in In their book the Brauers detail the various ways. Once a responsive location is detected a person works it into their mastur- rewards they claim awaits those practicing bation routine until orgasm can be reached this discipline. \" At the highest level of by that stimulation alone. After sever al loca- female ESO, which we call Phase II, contin- tions have been orgasmically developed they uous slow waves of push-out contractions of are stimulated simultaneously. Care is taken the deep pelvic muscles replace the mixed not to let one site become overstimulated contractions of Phase I. Each contraction into orgasm betore the other. The goal of a lasts up to thirty seconds and there are n ot fusion orgasm is to induce orgasm from all rest periods between. Women experience areas so that they peak at the same time. For this p hase subjectively as a continuous example, if one is stimulating both the orgasmic increase. . . . At the highest level nipple and penis and feel s orgasm of male ESO, Phase II, a man finds h imself approaching due to stimulation on th e in a continuous state of orgasmic emission penis, he will lessen the intensity on the for thirty minutes or more. Clear fluid penis and concentrate on the nipples until issu es almost continuously, drop by drop, they are again equal in intensity (\"Living from his penis. His anal sphincter is relaxed Up To Your Orgasmic Potential,\" by Dr. a nd o pen. The ejaculation phase m ay Herbert Otto, Sex Over Forty, IX, 2, pp. 1- involve twenty or more intense contractions 3, July 1990). and last twenty seconds or more (ESO- Extended Sexual Orgasm, by Alan P . Brauer, Areas of the bod y that respond well to M.D ., and D onna J. Brauer, pp. 3-4). stimulation are the prostate, anus, G-spot, scrotum, ears, armpits, toes, and nipples. ESO emphasizes controlled masturbation T hese areas are sen sitized even more b y the techniques and sex exercises, particularly use of lotions, heat, and slight abrasion. T he developm ent of the pubococcygeus (PC) prostate can b e manipulated a couple of muscle that cradles the lower torso from the ways. It may be stimulated from outside the body by pressing rhythmically upward on the space between the anus and the back of

ORGASMS 192 ORGASMS the scrotum. Others insert a finger or spe- car driving, skiing, airplane rides, sitting in cially design ed dildo t wo to fou r inches into church, urinating, boxing, wres tling, hig h the anus and massage the prostate that lies dives, b eing scared, near accidents, reciting to the fo rward side of the body. befo re a cla ss, tests a t school, seeing a policeman, big fires , anger, marc hing sol- PSYCHIC ORGASMS (Psychic masturba- d iers, looking over edge of build ing, finding tio n, P sycho lagn y) P sychic o rgasms are money, watc hi ng exciting ga mes,\" e tc. those induced by methods other than genital (Sexual Behavior in the H uman Male, by stimulati o n . Kinsey, Pomeroy and Martin, 1948, pp. 164- 165). The prevalence of psychically induced orgasms can be influenced by certain cul- Practitioners of Hatha Yoga can achieve tures or religious mores. Masters and Lea o rgasm without ma nual manipulation. sp oke of Turks and Arabs as being \"esp e- Hypnotists use auto-s uggestion to first cially prone to psychically induced sponta- induce excitement and erection and then neous emissions .... Arab ethicists, for orgasm . Some use fantasy alone to produce example, considerin g the signifi cance of orgasm, many use tactile stimulation from spontaneous emissions, have decided that nongenital areas of the body, and others they belong in the same category ethically orgasm when emotionally excited. The with nocturnal pollutions .... The Arabs orgasm itself m ay be less intense than one explained spontaneous daylight ejac ulations, experienced with a partner and men have which occurred not uncommonly at the reported them without accompanying emis- sight of an attractive woman, as a sacrifice sio ns; conseque n tly, thes e are often mul- made by the system in honor of beauty. tiple, ending with exhaustion or fin al H owever that may be, the p oint is, ethically, emission . Occasionally, a psychic orgasm that bo th nocturnal and daylight emissions can be so intense that it creates prolonged of this order were held to be beyond the orgasmic muscle spasms or renders the individual's control and therefore no moral person m om entarily unconscious as in the blame could be assessed\" (Perverse Crimes case of Tant ra. in Hiswry, pp. 180-181). SM ORGASMS There are two basic types P eople who are able to attain orgasm or of S/M orgasms and these can be differenti- sexual arousal by excitement and nongenital ated between what the b ottom (masochist) stimulation are discussed by several authori- and top (sadist) experiences. ties. Cauthery and Stanway inform us that \"women can experience orgasm s over the The person engaging in a pain inducing phone, by fa ntasy .. . when combing their activity or sensory deprivation may expe ri- hair, when p assing water .... rope- ence an altered state orgasm. They may also climbing; m ovem ent o n bu ses, trains or experience intense exaggerated emotions or, ' rides' in fa ir-gro u nd s; hearing a ma n 's if in bondage, a trance like state from which voice; sitting next to a man on a bus; being they gain ecs tasy. It is described as more shouted at; being late; listening to music or cathartic than the one experienced wh en poetry; dancing,\" etc. (The Complete Guide topping. to Sexual Fulfillment, by Dr. Philip Cauthery & Dr. Andrew Stanway with Faye Cooper, The top (dominant) exp eriences more of pp. 44 and 122). According to Kin sey some a psychic or energy charged orgasm from three or four men out of more than 5000 watching and controlling the erotic response could ejaculate by deliberately co ncentrating of the bottom. Some tops demand genital on sexual fantasies. However, most males, stimulation during play. H owever, orgasm is while not orgasming to non-tactile stimulus, at times reached with a simple tou ch on the do have erections to seemingly odd stimuli. surrou nding area. Tops choosing n ot to Activ iti es responsibl e for erect ions in include physical orgasm in a scene still younger boys are things such as \"punish- experience a euphoric high. This sensation ment, electric shock, fast elevator rides, fast has been described by people as a warmth in the stomach tha t radiates ou tward

ORGASMS 193 OXYGEN REGULATION through the extremities, co mparable to a indulged in during religious festiva ls which rantric orgasm, and similar to the feeling in you r stomach after a fast elevator ride. were preceded by an abundance o f food and TANTRlC ORGASMS Tantra is an Eastern drink. Examples of these religio us orgies form o f sex ual yoga. People learn to build energy by breathing techniques and then were th e Dionysian, Baal, Carni val, and direct this energy by body positions and mental control. Physical effects va ry May Day festivals. . according to the type of breathing engaged in by a p erson. The goal is to e nter an Paul Wirz docu mented the celebrauon of alte red sta te whe re one merges not only with their partner but also the cosmos. The path a religious orgy of the Ezam Secret Society to this ultimate state abounds with diverse orgas mic experie nces. These have been of New described as having been invaded and filled with wh ite light, or as en ergy wo rking its Guinea in way u p a nd dow n th e spi ne a nd then extending from the body through the head the early and hovering over it like a cobra. !9 00's. Many books have been written endorsing and d esc ribing num e rous benefits of H ere the T an tr a. The Kales wrote that \" the pro- longed sex of Tantra g ives you and your m en and partner orgasms that are indescribable in their intensity. It also brings you and your w ome n partner so close to each other that both of you will find yourselves wanting to embr~ce were seg- total strangers, becoming sensually recepuve to an unbelieva ble degree, and developing re gate d an empathy tha t makes yo u on e with the whole of burgeoning, fecunding, striving du ring creation around you\" (TANTRA, The Secret Power of Sex, b y Arvind and Shanta Kale, p. which time the men played music on drums 143) . A further recommendation is given by Ramsdale and D orfman in their book. \" ... and bullroarers. There were intervals [M] en a nd wom en report that wh il e making love their b od ies see m to co ntract expand between the chants where ini tiates could liquefy shake burn glow melt merge they say th ey feel like they a re fl yi ng th ey fee l two enter into the woods with any woman and peo ple become one they see brilliant colors they feel like king and queen, noble and have sex. Upon th e init iate's return he royal they feel really 'high'-naturally som e even say they disappear fo r awhile; in other brou ght with him a broken bra nch to sym- wo rds, they experience that making love expands their conscious ness t hese peo p le bolize his success. This ritual of free sex were not on drugs they were on sex . ..\" (Sexual Energy Ecstasy, b y Da vid A lan continued for several days and nights culmi- Ram sdale and Ellen Jo Dorfman). nating with a young woman being led into a (See also ivlASTURBATION) hut to have sex with several m e n. One of ORGIES An orgy is an antiquated term fo r grou p sex. It o fte n referr ed to sex th ese m en was selected with out hi s prior knowledge to be a sacrifice. The other men would pu ll d ow n the timbers o f the hu t upon the man and woman while they were joined in intercourse . They were then immediately removed , cut into p ieces, and roasted to provid e a fe ast for the tribe (Historical Atlas of World My thology, Vol II: The W ay of the Seeded Earth, Part 1: The Sacrifice, by Joseph Campbell, p. 7 1). Today, group sex houses in parts of Europ e still begin orgies by serving a dinner during wh ich tim e people becom e acquainted. These often end in food fights before selecting a sex partner. Group sex houses in the United States typically p ro- vide hors d 'oeuvres and punch fo r people to casually partake of during the evening. (See also FERTILIT Y RITUALS, FESTI - VALS , GAt\"JG BANGS, GROUP SEX and WIFE S W A P PI N G ) OXYGEN REGULATION Oxygen reg- ulation is used to intensify or delay sexual arousal. We normally b reathe about t\\¥elve t imes a minute. If we drasticall y alter our

OXYGEN R EGU LATION 194 OXY GEN RE GU LATIO N oxygen intake in any way the body panics, Understanding the effect oxygen regula- increasing adrenalin and other biochemical tion has on ou r arousal cycle requires an responses. A m ilder effect can b e triggered examination of the ph ysiology of our lungs. by quick shallow breathing into the upper Oxygen is vital to our bodies; we use it to lungs. This produces energy or excitement. burn fuel. Our lu ngs are designed to take in Slowing down the rate of breathing and oxygen for this combustion process which breathing d eeper has a calming effect. Most in turn generates heat and energy for the often the regulation of breath is instinctive functioning of the body. or controlled by our parasympathetic ner- vous system; however, people have learned The rate and rhythm at which we inhale to utilize techniques involving strangulation, creates different effects in the amount of corsetting, tantric locks, p lastic bags, sili- energy we generate, thus we can affect the cone bathing caps, gags, a nd gas masks to level of passion and energy we produce produce sexual excitement. duri n g sex. Slow dee p breaths gradu all y build a nd sustain energy, r apid shall ow Some of the techniques have potential to panting generates the immediate burst of be lethal because a person loses conscious- energy needed just prior to orgasm, and ness within three to five minutes if the holding our breath depletes excess energy. supply of oxygen is cut off and dies imme- diately aft erward . It is dangerous not to Psychological stimulus is needed by some monitor a partner at all times. Oxygen play in addition to the decrease in oxygen. These anempted on anyone over sixty or who su f- people enjoy adding some dimension of fers fro m arrythm ia, asthma, strokes, arte- panic or terror. Oxygen regulation alone riosclerosis, or hyperten sion is extremely lacks the same intensity . This may be why d a n g e r o u s. many use some form of bondage as an adjunct to asphyx ia wh en alone; knowing People who hyp erventila te (exhale too this is dangerous. Othe rs like to play with much carbon dioxide) have symptoms such control, either givi ng it to a partner or by as lightheadedness, drowsiness, a nd tingling pushing their own limits. Some people enjoy in the extremities. They may lose coordina- both panic and control. tion, become disoriented, or even have muscle spasms. The most common remedy Breathing techniques may also be used to fo r h yp erventilation is to h ave the person delay ejaculation for men. The bonom posi- breathe into a paper bag until they feel tion in m iss ionary sex is ass umed and, calmed . This brings the balance of oxygen before thrusting toward the partner, one and carbon dioxide back to normal. breathes deeply (disten ding the abdom en) and holds his breath while tightening the The other effect created by oxygen regu - pubococcygeus muscle and pushing out lation is hypoxia, or insufficien t oxygen in with th e anal muscl es. The breath is then the lungs. The sym ptom s of hypoxia released as h e relaxes and p ulls his body include: drowsiness, dizziness, euphoria, a away from his partner, preparing to repeat decrease in judgment, memory, alertn ess, the same cycle. This technique has the and coordination, a greying of vision; fin- opposite effect on women and more often gernails and lips may turn blue. Hypoxia stimulates them to orgasm . CAUTION: can be caused by a person forgetting to Many things can go wrong during breath breathe during sex. This is particularly true control play; the resu lt can be permanent during S/M play because the same neuro- disab ili ty or death. P eople who in sist on transminers that produce euphoria seem to engaging in this activity plan ahead for most depress respiration. It helps for a person just eventualities, how to prevent accidents, and coming ou t of a breathless state to make a h ow to get help if needed. If th e activity conscious effort to breathe deep ly. People involves more than one person, the one top- can sometimes be assisted into breathing ping must also be willing to face criminal deeply with a slap on the face or a pinch on charges and/or prison if an accident occurs. their nipples. However, slapping someone who has gone into shock may be dangerous. Descriptions of the various techniques u sed in sex play fo ll ow. (QSM lec t ure,

OXYGEN REGULATION 195 OXYGEN REGULATION Janu a ry 11 , 1992, \" Breath Control and it produces a euphoric and light-headed sen- Carotid Artery Play\" by Michael D ecker) sation. CAUTION: There have reports of vegal nerve inhibition due to fear or lack of CORSETTING Cor setting refers to a oxygen. A few people are susceptible to this restricti on placed aro und the waist, the lethal reaction and it is impossible to predict effect of wh ich creates difficulty in just who they are until too late. breathing deeply. Corsets are used by tops in breath co ntrol games by pushi ng in on SUFFOCATION Suffocation refers to any the bottom's diaphragm and holding it in. form of cutting off the b ody's supply of oxygen. This is done in sex games by (See CORSETS) putting a plastic bag over the person's head and making the m breathe their own carbon GAGS Gags are occasionally used to dioxide. The top may hold their hand over induce asphyxiation b y blocking the mouth the perso n's mouth and nose but this is while the partner holds the botto m 's nose more difficult and requires more phys ical closed. Gags and tape across both the strength if the bottom re si sts. One man mo uth and nose carry a higher risk factor rigged up a basket with a plastic bag inside than a partner using their hand. Even latex that hung from the ceiling. H e then stood hoods with small holes at the nose can get underneath and held the bag around his twisted slightly and cut off the bottom's air head. If he passed out the bag stayed sus- supply. pended while he fell to the ground, and nothing would be left to restrict his GAS MASKS Gas breathing. Another m ethod that slows a masks are used over person's breathing is holding a pillow over the face to r estrict his or her head. Since visual contact is lost oxygen intake. The this raises the risk level. Latex hoods or filter system is altered swimming caps are used by some couples. so that a 3/4\" hollow Some prefer \"queening\" (sitting on a tube can be inserted person's face in a wa y that cuts off airflow) into the region of the and one woman has her partner put his mouth. The mask is mouth over her vagina and then locks her tightened and when legs around the back of his head to prevent the top desires, they his pulling away or being able to breathe. place a finger over the tip to temporarily CAUTION: Games using gags, masks, block the air supply. These masks are pur- strangulation, or suffocation can cause chased at army and navy supply stores. strokes, heart failure, blindness, brain damage, and d eath. Safety precaution s for STRANGULATION (Autoerotic asphyx.ia- any of these activities require that the arousal from asphyxia) Strangling differs people know CPR, be healthy, not have from oxygen regulat ion in that it involves eaten recently, or combine the activity with restricting the flow of blood through the drugs a nd alcohol. Never do these ac tivities carotid artery to the brain. This can be done alo ne or without making sure that every with Velcro blood p ressure cuffs that have conceivable contingency is pr epared for and been folded over and modified with a D -ring made safe. People unwisely engaging in this attached on th e front edge with a rope going activity alone often pad the area on the floor through it that is hung from the ceiling; if around them. This prevents head injuries if the person fails to deflate the cuff before the person becomes unconscious and falls. they become unconscious, the rope pulls the collar loose as they fall. Thick leather collars (See also AUTOEROTIC ASPHYXIA, are also u sed by attaching a lightweight CORSETS, PHOBOPHILIA, SAFE SEX and string t o the ceiling, or with the assistance of T APHEPrilLIA) a partner. Some enjoy strangulation b ecause

p PANDERING A panderer is a person he could not have been acqua inted with the who procures a prostitute for a th ird person sex habits of animals when using this argu- or who convinces a person to engage in ment to support the Church' s view on prostitution by providing a client. \" normal\" heterosexual sex. Animals are not considered paraphiles, as in the case of (See BORDELLOS, ILLEGAL SEX and humans, but do engage in sim ilar behaviors PI1\\1PS) such as giving gifts, extended courtships, grooming, missionary style sex, rape, incest, PARAPHILIA (Deviance, Divertisse- bondage, necrophilia, group sex, homosexu- ment, Perversion, Sexual Aberration, Sexual ality, bisexuality, urophilia, lust murder, Anomalies) Paraphilia (Para: going beside anthropophagy, and sadomasochism (Sex or beyond, amiss; philia: attachment to) is Link by Hy Freedman) . Proof of St defined by John M oney as \"a conditio n Aquinas' naivete was his support of occurring in men and women of being com- Aristotle's account of a stallion that threw pulsively responsive to and obliga tively himself off a cliff upon discovering, to his dependent upon an unusual and personally horror, that he had just committed incest by or socially unacceptable [sexual] stimulus . . mating with his own mother. . In legal terminology, a paraphilia is a per- version or deviancy; and in the vernacular it Social rules impose restrictions on sexual is kinky or bizarre sex.\" (Gay Straight and behavior but despite this people still engage In-Between, by John Money, Oxford in different or unusual forms of sexual University Press, 1988.) Paraphilic disor- behavior. There are many reasons for this ders have several common characteristics. variance in behavior. These are listed in DSM-IIl-R as: recurrent, fixed, compulsive, sexually motivated, per- The first objective is to understand how sonally or socially maladaptive, interferes people become aroused by a seemingly non- wi th capacity for r eciprocal affection. sexual stimulus, whether or not the person Sexual acts are only considered paraphilias falls into the category of paraphilic. Passion if the person's internal experience matches can be created by emotions such as anger, these criteria. Only the person performing guilt, jealousy, p·uaphilic acts can be the judge of their shock, cha ll enge, ~ motivation and whether their compulsion loss, humiliation, hampers normal relations. An important shame, surrender, method of determining which behavior is fear, love, and pain. considered genetically coded and which is These all have one . influenced by social pressure or religion is thing in common, that of studying animal behavior as well as they stimulate the cross-cultural behavior. If a certain behavior body to produce is fou nd in both these instances, it is consid- adrenalin (epinephrine) which in addition ered \"natural\" or genetically coded (i .e. leads to the production of other neurotrans- gays and grooming). This reasoning is not mitters. Our judgment of the circumstances new. The 13th century church leader, St. or sex appeal of the other person determines Thomas Aquinas, said that the sex activities how the stimulus is perceived and acted of animals were natural and should be a upon. This ch ange in bodychemistry cause model of how God intended people to con- things such as avoidance behavior, a n duct themselves. Animals, not having been increased heart rate, oxygen intake, and corrupted by the original sin, could only blood pressure; all of the physical responses exhibit natural urges and therefore could needed to fight, run, or have sex. Phrased not be judged as evil or sinful. However another way; in addition to love, anything intelligent and perceptive St. Aquinas was that has the power to create fear or anger can be util ized by some people to induce

P A R A PHILI A 197 P A R AP HI L I A pass ion an d sexua l arousal. Thus, what intense and more intense. It's like I'm on a m ight have been reacted to with anger or roller coaster and then it starts getting really panic is formed into passion. If a hetero- fast. If I tighten up, resist, I lose it; it becomes sexual male was cornered by each of the no fun. There's nothing there for me if I'm people in the illustration, all of which were seductively saying \"Hello, big boy,\" he resisting. If I surrender I find myselfflying. fl 's would most likely respond with anger to the weaker male, fear to the stronger male, and release, intensity, a high; it's like a rain offire with arousal to the female. These reactions and I 'm flying inside\" (Sexual Magic, The would differ with a cornered gay or female SIM Photographs by Mich ael A. Rosen, p. heterosexual, b ut the three emotions would 58) . remain fairly standard. People who play sex games use this knowledge to their advantage A second aspect of paraphilia pertains to the by creating strong stimuli and letting their object to which one is attracted once stimu- bodies react. Once a fight, fligh t, or sex lated. Ordinarily the advantages of condi- decision is p resen ted the players opt for sex. tioning or learned behavior is that we would be sexually attracted to ou r own species, Aggression may have a d iffer ent appeal bond to people, or recognize and react to as well for some because females of most repeated dan ger. When we bond to an inap- species are attracted co males they perceive propriate sexual object it is referred to as a as strong enough to fath er h ealthy offspring fetis h and the item will usu ally be something and to protect his family. An immediate and that was around the person when young, aggressive response was needed under such as rubber pants, plastic sheets, fur, primitive conditions to ward off p redators leather, shoes, silk, urine, and feces. For and to protect food supplies. U nfortuna tely, instance, John Money, Professor of Medical the sam e aggressive reaction is biologically Psych ology, and Associate Professor of triggered in tod ay's society. Sometimes this Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, dis- primal aggressive reaction is warranted but covered that some of his patients who had most often it is not. undergone early surgery for birth defects were having fantasies about being pierced SIM players may use an existing emo- and cut now that they were adults. tional bond or feeling of love to gene rate passion, just as other people often do, only For som e men the preference of an they express it differently. T he following u nusu al sex object or p ractice is due to description is from Sybil Holiday, a skilled sexual repression and guilt imposed on top, as interviewed by Mich ael A. Rosen: them when they were young by parents. They select safe objects onto which to direct The experience that I get from him isn't pain; t h ei r lust. T his may be in the form of a he takes me somewhere else, and I ride with it. prostitute because she cannot be violated, or I keep opening up and letting go. He's very a handicapped person because she appears good at what he does-whipping. H e seduces less likely to abandon the man. Even those you into it. He's not vicious or cruel. H e who e ngage in risky activities may be using doesn't descend on people. He builds up inten- the higher level of fear caused by a risky sity. He starts out where the touch of the whip \"sex scene\" to override the fear and gui lt is like a caress, a leather caress, and then it they feel for indulging in normal sex. They builds on my body. Usually, I've been on my may also need to generate more excitement back or my stomach in some sort of bondage, in order to reach a similar level of intense and I feel ve1)' secure; I can move, but I can 't emotions as experienced by earlier fears go anyplace. And the warmth, the heat, just imposed by parents or religion for sinful starts building. It gets hotter and hotter and masturbation. then it dawns on me that it's like I'm on a roller coaster and I'm starting to go up and A third aspect of paraphilias in volves there 's no turning back and it starts getting compulsion and it is this aspect that makes more intense and it's very dramatic, and more self-control of undesirable behavior diffi- cult. The neurotransmitter that stimulates compulsive behavior is glucocorticoid which

PARAPHILIA 198 PARAPHILIA is triggered once a person becomes excited. requires preparation or atonement for the sin of lust by way of penance and sacrifice T he purpose of this neurotransmitter is to [lust murder, acrotomophilia] ...The marauding/predatory stratagem requires that, fo rce a person to focus on the stimulus until insofar as saintly lovers do n ot consent to the sin of lust, a partner in lust must be they conquer it, resolve i t, or are out of stolen, abducted, or assaultive and violent paraphilic rape... The mercantile/venal danger. A person who studies for a test at stratagem requires that sinful lust be traded, bartered, or purchased and paid for, insofar the last minute feels the effect of this chem- as saintly lovers do not engage consensually in its free exchange [prostitution, chrema- ical. In this case, once the deadline is met, tistophilia] ... The fetishistic/talismanic stratagem spares the saintly lover from the the ability to focus diminishes. The same sin of lust by substituting a token, fetish, or talisman instead. Fetishes are predominantly phenomenon occurs with love or para- either smelly (olfactophilic) or touchy-feely (hyphephilic), and both are derived from philias. As long as some type of excitement the smell and feel of parts of the human body ... The stigmatic/eligibilic strat.agem or ar ousal surrounds the love object or requires that the partner in lust be, metaphorically, a pagan infidel, disparate in sexual activity the release of glucocorticoid religion, race, color, nationality, social class, or age, from the saintly lovers of one's own increases compulsive behavior and makes a social g r oup [geron to philia, miscegena- tion] ... [and the] solicitational/allurative return to normal routine very difficult. stratagems protect the saint by displacing lust from the act of copulation in the accep- T he fourth aspect of paraphilias is tive phase, to an invitational gesture or overture of the proceptive phase [exhibi- related to loss compensation. The brain is tionism and voyeurism]\" (Gay, Straight, and Jn -Between; The Sexology of Erotic programmed to create pain and anxiety to Orientation, by Dr. John Money, pp. 136- 138). ensure that we provide our bodies with cer- In addition to all of the above reasons for tain items needed for survival. In return the deviating from regular sex h abi ts, people use sex to meet many other needs, such as brain produces opiates that trigger a plea- to: sure response. Primal needs are such things build self-esteem as eating, learn trust for others EAT defe cating, improve physical control sleeping, improve emotional control loving, sharpen intellect having sex, get immediate gratification security, reduce stress energy or SEX GATHER sti m ulus, obtain relief from guilt by acting pun- ishments communica- relieve physical pain tion, gath- ENERGY COMMUNICA'D e r i n g ' hunting, and using our senses. A problem arises when we cannot provide ourselves with a balance of these things as in the case of patients and prisoners. Our body or mind compensates for this loss by doubling up on another need, thereby using it as a source for plea- su re. In essen ce wh at happen s when this person feels pain from not being loved, they eat (or satisfy one of the other needs). T his is thought to cause the brain to release opi- ates and the person temporarily feels grati- fied. Eventually the person will only feel the need to gratify their original need for love with food. Ideally people strive for a balance in meeting all their needs. Dr. Money divides paraphilias into six stratagems. These classifications are crucial in understanding the types that commonly exist. \"The sacrificial/expiatory stratagem

PAR APHIL I A 199 PEDOPHILIA nurture others or be nurtured needs help us prioritize our goals and make relevant changes. G uilt can help us become enhance or awaken senses more empathetic toward the weaknesses of others making it easier to develop and main- obtain revenge on parents or society tain rela tion ships. Con versely, guilt can have negative effects when people use it to gain insight into one's sexuality by a judge and inflict emotional or physical pain gender reversal on themselves or others. Some psychologists believe that guilt is higher among people reenact traumatic experiences to allow who have a more limited awareness of life victim to gain control and who are stuck in a restrictive or repres- sive lifestyle. A person who imposes guilt on convey love and trust for a partner by oth ers is pra ct ic in g a fo rm of sadis m su rrender or submission because they expect the person to self-inflict emotional pain. express and understand their alternate personas (See also HIEROPHILIA, ILLEGAL SEX, (See also ALGOPHILIA, FETISHES, PHOBOPHILIA and ZELOPHILIA) MASOCHISM, PHOBOPHILIA and SADISM) PEDERASTY See ANAL SEX/PEDERASTY PECATTIPHILIA Pecattiphilia (pec- catum: a sin; and philia: attachment) is the PEDIOPHILIA Pediophilia refers to the sexual arousal one gets from sinning. This sexual attraction some have for dolls. may also display itself as a feeling of guilt. William Stekel relayed the case of a woman who at a young age had been molested by Religious teenagers sometimes suffer several people, all treating her like a doll. from a dilemma when they masturbate She evidently suppressed these memories by because they are taught that God will transferring their identity to those of dolls punish or perhaps kill them for this 'perver- and toys. This came to present problems sion'. A few have grown up with a fascina- when she married and her husband caught tion for sex play that involves life and death her playing with them. H e at once destroyed risks in order to recapture the same emo- her toys whereupon she grew ill and tional intensity that this fear created. remained depressed. She later became frigid and developed kleptomania, stealing dolls to Another type of 'sinner' may intensify replace those he had d estroyed (Sexual their feelings of guilt by seducing a virgin, a Aben-ations, by W illiam Stekel, Vision Press, member of the clergy, wearing religious cos- 1963). H owever, generally men have tumes, listening to hymns during sex, or fetishes for small statues or man ikins. breaking into a church and using the altar to engage in a form of ritual sex. They may One California man had a doll fetish. H e also have their partner say things to make shaved the hair from Barbie doll heads and them feel shame or guilt. then swallowed the heads to produce sexual arousal. X-rays showed six doll heads in his Those suffering from extreme pecat- intestines. Once th ese passed throu g h the tiphilia may feel an overabundance of guilt digestive tract he would bo il them and and try to reduce these feelings by having repeat the process. [Personal communica- their partner chastise or punish them before tio n.] th ey orgas m . This seems to rel ieve t h eir guilt feelings. Some develop a fear of sexu- (See also AGALMATOPHILIA, ANA- ally transmitted diseases afterward or salve CLITISM, FORN ICATORY DOLLS and their conscience by judging their sex INFANTILISM) partner. In extreme cases, a psychotic person will m urder their victim (usu ally a PEDOPHILIA (Eopareunia-sex while prostitute) to expiate both their sins. young, Nepirasty-arousal from handling infant felt by childless females, Pathicant- Guilt can have a positive force in our lives if it calls attention to conduct that requires more responsible action. Additional understanding of our behavior, values, and

PEDOPH I LIA 200 P E DOPHILIA pederast) P edophi lia (pedo: child; philia: bee11 chose11 by the captors to satisfy their bru- lust) refers to an adult being sexual ly tality are not carried 011 to the 11ext camp. No, aroused by a child . The adult may engage in this type of sex exclusively, restrict it to they are put to 1/ze knife. Then the crude meal the ir own childre n, only seek ou t chil dre n of cold rice is gobbled and the wlzips a.re ou1 when they are u nder stress or have been fru strated by an adult relatio nship, while amo ng the trai11 of captives, a11d the rifles intox icated, or a few may be mentally ta!?en up, there are scores of nal?ed bodies flung retarded. by tile blacl? coa.Ls of the soldiers' fires . T hey are dead girls. 011e may be sure Lliat they were Child prostituti on is still fou nd in much happy w die, so harsh has been their fare. of the world. Societies have always d iffered in their accepta nce of pedop hili a b ut fo r Their cold, small faces a re bloody, beaten, and m os t o f the world it has o nly come to be distorted (Ci1ies of Si11, pp. 97-8) . prohibited within th e last hundred yea rs. Befo re this time a few cultures would use Laws against pedophilia certainly helped to children to kee p di nner guests entertained curb these types o f atrocities . H owever, from u nderneath t heir tables . The Jap anese today so m e laws have become so extreme used g irls as young as fi ve to p erform fel- th at pa rents have bee n p rosecu ted who, latio in the Yoshiwaras and the Chinese had with out ap understa nding of the new laws, b o rdellos that sp ecial ized in you n g c hil- had innocently turned in film o f their chil- dren. Many of these youths were purchased dren bathing. Parents who let their child fro m parents after a droug ht when the take a glance at a nude photo of themselves fa the r co u ld n ot feed th e fami ly and t h e have also been prosecu ted. alte rnati ve was fo r the gi rl and fami ly to starve. The sale o f a daughter meant both R epo rts vary as to how many m inors are survival of the girl a nd her fa mily. O ther molested, so me sta tistics are as high as one girls were captured by bandits a nd sold at in every fo ur females and one in every si x auctions to brothel-keepers. H endrik de m ales. T h e la ti onal Center for C hi ld Leeuw described the horrors of one of these Abuse and N eglect estimate in 1982 19% of raids. femal es and 9% of males are sexually abused before the age of 12 years. The State Jn the Mien 'ch dism:ct, with which the report of K en tucky Human Resource Cabinet deals al lenglft, 111ore 1han one thousand v il- received \"32,643 complaints of child sexual lages were looted, burned, and the younger abuse during the last fiscal year [1987] ...th e female population carried off . . The maj01·ity indi ctm en ts fi led aga in st th ese residents were transported to slave markets and we re includ e allegations by the ch ildren of ac ts 1here sold to procurers sent by 1he groups of a llegedly commi tted by the ir mothers, capitalists who co11trol, to a large extelll, the father s, uncles, g ra ndfathers, and grand- brothels of the great cities.... Of course, 111a11y of m others. T h ey range fro m child observation These children never reach the slave 111arkets. of a grandparent sodomizing younger males Even as they sit tltere, whilnpering in f ea r a nd to a grandm other perfo rming oral sex on a sorrow, the raiders sial/i among them, drag out year-old grandson.\" This stud y also re\\'eals the least -favored aino ng them, and a1iack tha t \" [m] o th er- so n sexual contact appea rs 1/ze111. This bru1ality conlinues throughouJ the to be less common but is mor e prevalen t nigh t. T he screa111s of the children, ha~f­ than ma ny clinic ia n s may real ize\" (\"Child de111e111ed by the horror of butc/1e1y in 1he vii- Sexual Abuse: The Abusing Fam ily in Rural i.ages and by the embraces of 1hefr captors, ring America,\" by Thomas W. Miller, P h.D., out i11 the dark11ess.. .. . Mom ing reveals the A .B.P.P ., and Lane ] . Veltkamp, M.S.W., true terror of the 11iglu and lhe true mea11i11g of International Journal of Falllily Psychology, these ch ildish cries. For, si11ce the mar/let fo r Vol 9, 1988, No. 3, International University these raped bodies is 1101 good and 1he price for Press, pp. 259-275) . a crazy child shows little profit, those who have Men who we re t hem selves sexu ally abused when young or who come from a ho me wh e r e t hi s was acceptable d o n o t ahvays develop the normal social aversion to

PEDOPHILIA 201 P EDO PHILIA pedophilia . Young juveniles in d etention Yates also recomm ends that a child first be centers have often experienced molestation \" encouraged to give a narrative report of or abuse befo re incarceration and many what occurred, t o establish his or her knowl- older sex offenders began this aggressive edge base, sub sequent answers wo ul d b e behavior as an adolescent. One report on 63 mo r e ea s il y understood or redefi n ed\" male juven iles revealed that 70% had been (\"Should Young Children T estify in Cases molested or raped prior to incarceration and of Sexual Abuse?\" by Alayne Yates, M.D., some reports show that a significant per- American Journal of Psychiatry 144:4, April centage are sexually assaulted while incar- 1987, pp. 4 76-480). Goodman noted that cerated. Adolescent fe males were we are unsure whether children can d iffer- responsible for 58% of the molestations and en tiate b etween th eir th oug h ts about Brannon, e t al \"suggest there is a population an other perso n's actions and reality. of ad olescent fe m ales (i.e. friends of older Children can project their own interpreta- siblings and babysitters) who actively vic- tion of the event into the intent of the aduit timize pre-pubescent males\" (\"The Extent (\"Children's testimony in historical per- and Origins of Sexual Molestations and spective,\" by G.S. Goodman, Journal of Abuse Among Incarcerated Adolescent Social Issues, 1984; 40:9-31 ). Some children Males, \" by James M. Brannon , Billie are traumatized by having to testify and Larson, Murray Doggett, Iniernational others are helped b y sharing their horrible Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative secret. This decision is perplexing; however, Criminology, Septembe r 1989, Vol 33, No professional therapists can be valuable in 2, pp. 161-1 7 1). making individual determinati ons . In addi- tion, the American P sychiatric Association In additi on, peop le are so m e times and the American Academy of Child coerced by their partners into having sexual Psychiatry have recommended procedures contact with minors. O ne case involved a that serve to protect children from unneces- young man whose girlfriend talked him into sary trauma in the court proceedings. taking drugs and having sex with neighbor- h ood boys. T hese males ranged in age from Therapy for ped ophiles prosecuted fo r six to thirteen. The girlfriend was able to this type of sex offen se u sually con sists of coax the boys into engaging in fellatio and clarifying the person's own responsibility pederasty with her lover by promising to and culpability, as well as understanding of have sex with them afterward. M ore often, the harm that is caused to the victim (since however, women are coerced by adult male most pedophiles initially consider them - companions. selves the victim). Sexual dysfunctions are studied, social skills are developed to assist Another concern regarding pedophilia them in establishing relationships with other involves courtroom testim ony of ch ild vic- adults, behavioral modification is used to tims; the trauma for the child and accuracy diminish their previou s pedophilic condi- of their testimony. While victims as young tioning, and sometimes pharmacological as three years old have accurately identified treatment is used as well. their assailant and described the details of the event others have fallen under the influ- A grou p named NAMBLA (North ence of parents in custody battles and have American Man/Boy Love Association) has given inaccurate testimony against the other been campaigning against harsh legislation parent. There are many factors to consider since 1978. T heir purpose is to educate the in deciding to accept the tes timony of a public and advocate changing laws to both child. Alayne Yates, a psychiatrist, suggests protect minors from sexual abuse and to that a \" judge must consider whether th e give them the same right to engage in con- child can distinguish truth from falsehood, se nsual sex acts with a p er son of their the child's appreciation of the need to tell choice as others have. The group formed the truth, and the child's cognitive while trying to defend 24 homosexuals who capacity.\" In addition to specially trained were arrested in 1977 in Revere, professionals used to interview the children Massachusetts fo r engaging in consensual

PED OPHILI A 202 PENIS MODIFI C ATION sex with teenage boys. There was often only o nl y water based lubricants are used one or t\\lvo years difference in age between because oils d estroy rubber material. The the felon and the victim, with the victim Sleeve is an open ended lubricated rubber having admitted to being the instigator. cylinder that slides over the penis. This Many p otential supporters fo r this group simple device crea tes strong sensati ons are often lost b eca use of NAMBLA's con - when manipulated due to the roughness tention that the age of consent be lowered to insid e. It is adaptable for play with partners prepubescent and their newsletter exhibiting by rolling one end up to facilitate fellatio or photos of young boys. by inserting it into a partner's vagina . Recommended reading fo r male victims M ost of these devices can be purchased of sexual abuse is Victims No Longer, by in sex video stores or through mail order. Michael L ew. CAUTION: Parents can help reduce the risk of possible molestation by (See also FORNICATORY DOLLS, GEN- educating children about pedophiles, being ITAL/ANAL INSERTS and SYBIAN) wary of adults befriending and giving gifts to their children, screening babysitters, and PENILE LIGATION Penile ligation giving the c hild a secret code word to pre- refers to binding or tying the penis. You ng vent friends or strangers from abducting the Athen ia n men u sed to tie a string arou nd child from school by telling them the parent their fo re skin to protect th e gla ns penis sent them. Children should also be taught during gym nastic events in which they their name, address, and how to dial 9 11. appeared nud e. M aori s wer e said to keep their foreskins tied shut out of m odesty . (See also ANACLITISM, ANISONOGAMIST, Ligation is used in sex games today by gay CATAMITES, COITUS INTERFERMORIS, men with foreskins. They join them with a DIPPOLDISM, GE ISHAS, HAREMS, ILLEGAL string to create a form of bondage. SEX, INCEST, INFANTILISM, MARRIAGE, NEPIOPHILIA, NYMPHOPHILIA, PORNOG- P enile ligation is not restricted to the sex RAPHY, PROSTITUTION, SEX RINGS, SNUFF play of two men. A diffe rent version is used FILMS and VIRGINS) by heterosexual couples wh o are involved in bondage games. This entails tying on e end PENETRATION TOYS (M erkin-arti- of the string around ficial vagina used for sex by men, also a wig the fo reskin and the for the pubic area) Penetration toys are other and to a small mechanical devices that allow penetration of weight, or a hook an object by the penis for masturbation pur- on the ceiling; thus poses. There are cylinders that can be filled restri cting the movement of a man with warm water (Su per who has his hands tied behind his back. Sauna Pump), others Similar bondage techniques are used fo r utilize vibrators, or an penis rings. air pump that creates a rubbing action along (See also MEATOTOMY, PENIS MODIFICA- the head and shaft of TIONS and RINGING) the penis (O ro- Simulator). They may PENIS MODIFICATION Penis modifi- be battery op erated or cati on refers to a n y permane nt physica l controlled by a rubber alteration that is d on e to t he penis. T he pump. Others, such as the artificial rubber practice is ancient and spans through Vaginal Pal, resemble a vagina with shor t reco rd ed history. C ircumcision, the oldest hair around the labia. The interior is ribbed d oc umented form of penis modification , to create extra sensations. This type of toy was found on a prehistoric stone carving. A is also available with two repositories, the penis pin was discovered on a fourth cen- ribbed vagina and an anus which has its tury bronze dog, and the insertion of penis interior wa ll covered with spiked rubb er b ells have been documented as early as the protrusions. Lubrication is added; however, fo urteenth century.

PENIS MODIFICATIO N 203 P ENIS MODI F I C ATION BIHARI A Bihari modification involves the devised a bronze sheatl1 that fit around the cutting of the supporting ligament above the existing foreskin and which would eventu- p enis, causing the penis to drop forward, ally stretch it to a length that covered the and in effect giving the ill usion of one's glans. Evidently, circumcision at this time being endowed with an extra inch or two of was n ot r egulated and many mohels were penile shaft. This is thought to have been an only cu tting off a small portion of the pre- ancient Chinese practice. There are only a puce. Mark Waring, in his book Foreskin few surgeons that offer this service. One is Restoration (Uncircumcision), states that later Dr. Long Daouchou, a plastic surgeon in \"Jewish relig ious authorities introduced a Wuhan China who in 1991 was doing an method of circumcision to en sure that it average of four a week. His procedu re takes would be much more difficult to restore the about 90 minutes with recovery expected in foreskin. T he elders of the religion were dis- a month (\"One Very Popular Surgeon,\" by turbed that many Jews were abandoning Lena H . Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, their faith and recreating their foreskins. To Sunday Punch Section, January 12, 1992, p. make this more difficult they decided that a 5). Another surgeon, Dr. Bihari fro m Cairo, more radical technique of circumcision was was one of the first to successfully perform requ ired \" (p. 5). This standardization the surgical procedure and it is thus named unfortunately preceded the last attempted after him. Dr. Brown, a plastic surgeon, has genocide of the Jews by Hitler's supporters. also performed a large number of these While some attempted su rgery to hide their operations. He does business in M exico (his heritage, the small remnant of fo res kin medical license was revoked in the U nited made it very difficult. States). Dr. Brown gained his expertise from doing sex ch ange operations. CAU- Today some men endure several years of TION: This is a delicate operatio n due to discomfort in addition to expense to recon- the many nerves a nd blood vessels adh ering struc t their foreskin s. T h e most recom - to the muscle. mend ed method is that of gradually stretching the skin w hile makin g sure it is C IRCUMCISION Circumcision refers to not enough to produce pain. The slow the surgical removal of the foreskin that method creates undetectable lacerations and covers the glans penis. (Please refer to CIR- the body responds by gen erating new skin CUMCISION section fo r additional informa- cells t o fill the open ar eas . Thu s afte r a tion.) period of time, one will have more skin. The presence of pain is an indication that too FORESKIN RESTORATION Foreskin much pressure is being applied. This almost restorations are used to eith e r stretch the always leads to a scarring of the penis tissue foreskin or to surgically restore this flap and is not recommended. over the glans penis. Foreskin restoration has been practiced throughout history to Mark Waring also describes the skin graft enable the circumcised male to avoid dis- surgical method. This consists of cutting me paragement and discrimination. Africans, ring of skin approxima tely an inch below who were circumcised when sold as slaves the glans penis, pulling th e or eu nuchs to the M oslems, would secretly top skin forward so that it hang weights on their foreski n to stretch it, covers the glans, men cutting and thus restore their penis to its appear- two parallel openings into the ance prior to mutilation. They did this scrotum that are perpendic- despite the fact that if detected this act of ular to the penis. The penis is defiance could cost their life. Jews, during then inserted into this open the period of the Roman Emperor H adrian, pocket so that me cut area on (11 7 -138 C.E.) had a heavy tax imposed the penis is covered, ye t the upon any circumcised male. The Jews, tip of the glans still extrudes fearing a genocide attempt because of h is far enough for urination. The man is sent laws prohibiting practice of anything Jewish, home and after almost a year returns for me second surg ical procedure which consists of

P E ' I S M O DI F I CAT I ON 204 P E N I S M O DI F I CAT I ON detaching the skin sur rou nding the penis and, instead of implanting it into the penis, from the scrotum and securi ng it into place. Comp lica t ion s w it h th is t ype o f surg e ry they m erely inserted it in to th e vagina. incl ude sca rring , dis figur ing, and possible growth of scrotal hair on the new foreskin. The yakuza (Japanese mafia) still insert Ther e is a book ca ll e d Th e Joy of pearls into the area b etween the outer skin Uncircumcision by Dr. David Bigelow a nd an organization named Brothers United for that slides freely over th e in ner core of th e Future Fo re ski n s (B UFF) th at p rovi d e essential information and referrals fo r those pen is. A small hole is cut an d the p ea rl is interested in foreskin restoration. inserted and ban- \\v IMPLANTS ( Bul lee tu s, Burmese bells, ~'~~ Chagau balls, Tinkling balls) Tribes in daged until th e Sou theas t Asia ha ve u se d bells, sto n es, jewels, ivory, gold, pea rl s, balls, and shells wound heals. The to implant into the penis. \" The bells ranged up to the size of a sm all chicke n egg, and me n perform this apparently were always made of m etal, with a 'grain of sa nd ,' 'dried adder 's tongue,' or surgery as part of a o th er object inside . T he b etter o nes we re 'gilded a nd made with great cu n n ing.' As tradition where they man y as a dozen m ight be inserted. Kings migh t rem ove one of theirs to bestow it on a add o ne p earl to the person deservi ng g rea t honor\" (The Penis I nserts of Sou th easL Asia, b y D o nald E . penis for each year Brown, Ja mes W. Edwards, and Ruth P . Moore, p. 2). T his was do ne to enlarge the the y spend in jail. T h e pea rls make t h e size of the penis, provide extra tacti le se nsa- tion for the fe male, and duplicate the penis penis la rge r and gives it a differe nt sensa- shape o f loca l ani m a ls; s u c h as the rh inoce ros in Africa . Paolo Mantegazza tion. Women seem to di sagree as to whether wrote about bells h e saw used in I ndia . \"Through out the cou ntry [Ind ia] are fo u nd these penises are m o re sexuall y desirable old p rostitutes who sell li ttle bells of gold, sil ver a n d b ronze . The women hold great (Mode m Primitives, by V. Vale and A. Ju no, store with them for when they are sewn into the skin of the man 's member they cause a p . 156). Koreans a nd some Filipinos also swelling of tremendous length of the e ntire genital pa rts. H ence they claim their males insert sm all balls under their penile skin. In have greater endurance and give them far greater pleasure than we poor Europ eans. It 1984 Dr. S .S . Pareek wrote of a 4 8-year old is true th at when th ere are a nu mber o f natives about, the woman will invariably Korea n sea m an who h ad fo ur balls in his choose th e one with a titilla ting m ember. As soon as th e boys reach puberty they rush to penis (\" Unusua l penil e swelling- have the bells sewn into their m embers, and con sta n tly ch ange them fo r larger sizes as bu llee tu s,\" British Journal of Sex ual they g row up\" (Sexual Relations of J\\tfanlu\"nd, by P . M antegazza ). The C hinese u sed a bell M edicine, Oct 1989, pp. 395) . during intercourse but changed the design There are two com mo n types of implants done on m en in the United States today. M en who because of injury o r cryp- torchidism (failure of the testicles to drop) do not have visible testes often have artifi- cia l testic le s inserted into th e empt y scrotu m . T h e purpose is o nly cos m e ti c, sa ving th e m an from p ossible e m barrass- m ent. Anoth er type of implant is a silicone tube desig ned to ass ist in providi ng stiffness to a n o therwise flaccid pe nis. (F or add i- t ion al info r mati o n refer to sec tion o n IMPOTE NCE.) There is also a fatte ni ng operation designed to increase th e circum- fere n ce o f the p e ni s. The op e rat io n is d escr ibed as being the opposite of lip osu c- tion and is performed by plastic surgeons. INCIS ION Incisio n o f the penis is a prac- t ice o f sp li tting th e skin down t h e wh o le length of th e p en is. It is d on e on several islands in the Western Pacifi c Ocean. T h e penis appears similar to a circum cised one if done whi le th e mal e is very yo un g.

PENIS MODIFICATION 205 PE N IS MODI F I C ATION \"Frequently, h owever, only com pletely person in whom they are inserted m ore mature young men are circumcised; in su ch attractive to the opposite sex (not because cases th e c u t foreskin h an gs d ow n as a n the n eedl es ph ysically alter appearan ce- ugly brown flap \" (Sexual L ife of Primitive they don 't)\" (The Penis Inserts of Southeast People, by H . F ehlinger, p . 106). Mr. Asia, by D onald E. Brown, Jam es W. Fehlinger continues with a description of Edwards, and Ruth P . M oore, pp. 10- 11 ). one of these ceremonies among the H amite tribe of East Africa. A convicted American murderer, Albert F ish ( 1870-1936), was reported to h ave had Waniors visit the hut, and take away all the so m an y needl es inserte d in to his genital boys' clothes and omaments. Then young girls region that they were thought to have short visit the boys and give them a part of their circuited the voltage from his electric chair. clothing and ornaments. After the boys have Fish was executed for having murdered and put these on they inform their relations of the ea ten fifteen child ren. f orthcoming circumcision.... After sunset they must listen to the sharpening of the operating MEATOTOMY M eatoto my refers to an knife. Warriors are present, and tease the boys. incision or tearing done to enla rge the ure- Later on all undress, and a procession is formed thra. T he practice often evolves from m as- with a moterenic at the head and rear of it. turbation with an instrument that has been Four times they have to crawl through a small inserted into the ureth ra. P eople use cage, where warriors are stationed at the increasingly larger entrance and exit with nettles and hornets. implements in the ure- With the former they beat the boys in the face th r a to tear tissu e. and on the sex organs; the hornet they set on Others cut one or two their backs.... The operator kneels before the s ides of t he u reth ra boy, and with a quick cut performs the first and pack the area to part of the operation; the foreskin is drawn f or- keep the sides from ward and cut off at the tip of the glans penis.... mending together. A Friends and relatives make merry together, few m en have such a while the second part of the operation begins. large op ening that At this only sterile girls may be present, a nd they were able to also women who have lost several brothers and insert the glans penis of an other man in to sisters at short intervals. Many boys become the tip of their penis. (See SOUNDING fo r unconscious dwing this part of the operation. additional information.) The wounds are only washed with cold water, and the boys are led back to their huts... . the NEGATION Negation, or rendering the foreskins are taken out of the ox horn, sacrificed penis impote nt, is primarily do ne fo r reli- to their god, and then buried in cowdung at the giou s reasons and in volves method s othe r foot of a croton tree (Sexual Life of P1imitive than castration. Young prepubescent b oys People, pp. 111-11 2) . in India of the Sadhu class hang weights on the tip of their penis to stretch it; within a INSERTS The use of penile inserts in the few yea rs som e hang between their kn ees. United S tates is normally refe rred to as T hey also push their penis inside their body ringing a nd comprises of piercings of rings and ro ll their scrotum around a rod; after or bars that are placed into the glans penis som e time they are n o longer able to pull the or scrotum at different angles. (Please refer penis from the body. Both techniques m ake to section on RINGING for additional infor- it impossible for them to have sexual mation.) orgasm late r in li fe. T his allows t h em to engage in self flagella tion or m asoch istic Males and fem ales in M alaysia and practices without accidently orgasmi ng, Singapore som etimes insert p h onograph bringing their biochemicals back to normal needles or metal charms in to the mons pubis and preventing the attainment of an altered area. \" In m odern M alaysia and Singap ore s ta t e of con sc io u s n ess.(See ORGASMS/ their commonest purpose is to make the ALTERED ST A TES)

PENIS MODIFICATION 206 PERSONAL AD S SPLITTING Splitting the penis from the shout, the initiate's female relatives are being glans toward the base was a ritual p racticed slashed across belly and shoulders by his by a gro up of Australian aborigines who mother. H e is lifted from the altar, and while worshipped a totem lizard that had a split he squats over a shield into which the blood flows, one or two of the younger men, who have penis. M ost men practiced a been subincised before, stand up and volun- less dramatic form of subinci- tarily undergo a second operation to increase sion. One Anglo man success- the length of their incisions. Standing close to fully attempted this procedure the sacred pole, hands behind their backs and and describes the results as fol- legs wide apart, they shout, 'Come and slit lows. \"My decision to surgi- mine to the root!' They are pinioned from cally remodel my genitals was behind, and the work is done (The Way of deliberate, of deep satisfaction Animal Powers, by Joseph Campbell, p. to me, highly exciting, sexually adventurous, 144). and eroticall y exhilarating... Full erections are still maintained as p reviously, but now in There is a genital modification club in two complete, separate halves. The erotic C hicago called INIGMA. zones o f my penis are still the same, with orgasms and ejaculations functioning per- (See also BEE STINGS, BINDINGS, CAS- fectly. Entry into the vagina requires a little TRATION, CHASTITY DEVICES, CIRCUMCI- extra effort for insertion, but once my penis SION, COCK RINGS, PENILE LIGATION, is inside, its opened effect on the vagina's PHALLOPHILIA, SACOFRICOSIS, TESTICLES inner lining is more pronounced, giving and WEIGHT TRAINING) better female orgasmic feel ings\" (PFIQ #15, by Carl Carroll). His account was accompa- PERSONAL ADS Personal ads are those nied by an actual photo. The splitting sup- placed in magazines or paper s to advertise posedly took several years to complete. o n e's avai labili t y. This is d one to meet people with anything in mind from dating, SUBINCISION Subincision refers to the exchanging letters and nude photos, swap- cutting of part of the glans penis from the ping partners, or connecting with someone tip toward the base. The length of the cut who shares unusual sex preferences. The varies according to the custom of the tribes wording of these ads may be censored by who engage in this practice. Tribes in New the editor of tl1e magazine in which they are Guinea used to make an incision in the advertised. Sample ads from various publi- glans that was up to abou t 3/4\" in length. cations: Some men in these tribes had two incisions that laid perpendicular to the shaft. F it, Active Blonde, W/W/F, caring, warm seeking friend and companio n 59+ to share T h e cerem ony of a full subincision is some of life's experiences. Enjoy walks, sea- described as follows: side, mountains, dining & sightseeing ( Trellis Singles). H e is lifted and carried feec foremost co the shield, upon which he is placed. The assistant JViALE VIRGINS, Very busy attractive het- circumciser immediately grasps the foreskin, erosexual female. Would like discreet intimate pulls it out as Jar as possible, and the operator fun with you (Swinger's Digesi) . cuts it off. ... One of the men has lain face downward on the ground; a second on top of BEEFY RUMP, White Master, seeks slaves him. The initiate, conducted from the pole, is into spanking, paddling, ball work, wax and placed face upward on this living altar, and shaving. Take it on your beefy rump and while the company sets up a great shout, a tender testicles! (DungeonA1as1er). third man, mounting astride the boy, grasps and holds his penis ready for the knife, at STOCKING FEET, I am a Bi Woman of 40 which moment, a fourth, suddenly appearing, who wishes to share experiences regarding slits the length of it from below. In the women's emasculation of males via repeated masturba- camp, meanwhile, at the sound of the men's tion and foot fetish. Sperm drawing of h et- erosexual, passive male s for pa renti ng purposes, administering female hormones or other ideas to assure fema le offspring.. . (Sand11111copia Guardian 5).

PERSONAL AD S 207 PETT I C OA T DISCIPLINE ALL BAREFOOT T ICKLERS, S/M it. Power over another person can create an adorable with extremely ticklish feet seeks inflated ego that leads the top into viewing females, couples, and singles into prolonged the servant with contempt or a t least foot bondage and tickling pleasures. All foot with ou t compass ion . This is also call ed tickling fantasies are fu lfilled and welcome \"top 's disease.\" People who play in S/M ... (Fetish Times #19 J). roles of dominant and submissive are aware of this p henomena and work to avoid falling SEXY AND EROTIC WIFE, Young wife into this m ode of thinking. loves to make VHS videotapes with super- endowed black bodybuilders. I have many (See also BLINDFOLDING, BONDAGE, VHS tapes. I'm willing to share with others CH ASTITY DEVICES, DEFILEMENT, DOMI- who share the same hot desires ( Cocoa 'n NANCE/SUBMISSION, FLAGELLATION, Creme #JO). HUM ILIATION, INTERR OGATION, PETTI- COAT DISCIPLINE, PHOBOPH!LIA, PROFES- MORE THAN JUST A SNACK, My lover SIONAL DOMINATRIX, TORTURE and and I are interested in getting together with a VICTORIAN LACE) small group of hot hung men for long safe cocksucking sessions. I am especially inter- PERVERSION See PARAPHILIAS ested in experienced worshippers of u ncut dicks. I enjoy feeding the hungry (Drummer PETTICOAT DISCIPLINE (Petticoat #133). punishment) Pe tticoat disc ipline refers to the discipline used on young males whereby There are many advantages to advertising. they are fo rced to wear kilts without the In addition to meeting more eligible people, sporran (purse) by their mother, sister, gov- one may lessen the chance of rejection a t a e rn ess, or aun t. English and Scottish later date by including things su ch as special m others both used this method for control- interests, smoking, alcohol, inability to ling an unruly boy. This p loy worked b y parent, herpes, sexual preference, financial humiliating and embarrassing the boy so statu s , professio n, religi o n , race, age, much that he was careful not to engage in weight, education, etc. The distribution and any type of activi ty that would draw atten- anonymity advertising offers can be very tio n to himself, thus making him ea sy to important if one lives in a small town. control in public. Social etiquette can be important in The degree of modification in attire writi ng an ad and in responding to replies depended on the boy. For some on ly a bow on the phone or in person. One book avail- tie, short p ants, or velvet fabric was suffi- able to assist people in writing straight ads, cient, for o thers lace, bows on the shoes, replying, and arranging meetings is Personal shaved legs, and girl's underwear was neces- ADventures, H ow to meet people through per- sary. sonal ads, by Jay Wiseman, published by Gentle Persuasio n Press in San Francisco. Older males were sometimes su bjected to Familiarizing oneself with the standard pro- this humiliation due to the power a widowed tocol can alleviate much initial anxiety. mother had over their inheri- tance. An extract from a letter (See also COMPUTER SEX, DATING SER- to The L ondon Times so me- VICES, MARRIAGE/MAIL ORDER and PHO- time during the 19th century TOGRAPHY) quoted a woman as saying she had \"found an effective PERSONAL POWER Person al powe r cure for my 20 year old son's often acts as a catalyst for partners wh en flirting wi th young ladies. engaging in sex. Politicians, movie stars, Since corsetting him a nd m usicians, sports figures, singers, and the putting him into a short kilt upper echelon of corporations have this he is unable to look a girl full p ower b estowed by vir tue of th eir profes- in the eyes, let alone ogle her. I heartily rec- sion. Some are able to keep a balance in ommend this form of correction.. .\" their relationships while others are not. Dominatrixes and tops learn to create a power image and control their partner with

PET TI COAT DI SC IPLINE 208 PHALL O PHILI A Sexual literature often relates fictional male has by far the largest penis-much stories of fourteen to twenty year old boys larger even than that of a gorilla, a prima te who are humiliated by a female, other than three times a ma n's body bulk. T he width of their m other. These females add frills to the normal penis their shirt, shoes, or underpants. The kilt provides extreme may be cut sh ort so that lace underwear will sexual pleasure to show if the boy bends over. As often is the the fe male... It custom, underpants are not worn with kilts. seems that the large- Most of the story lines include embarrass- ness of this male me nt suffered from having others look up anatomical part has their skirt, pull their pants down for a no practical function spanking, or having females rub against other than for sex, their genitals. and undoubtedly it evolved in size long Petticoat d iscipline d iffer s from cross- ago because women like m en with large dressing or transvestism because the intent penises\" (The Sex Contract, p. 6) . T oday is to have the masculinity and identity of the the average length of a penis in the U nited male remain prominent. The male is not States is considered to be between five and trying to pass as female; the change in six inches. gender identity would not hu mi liate him nearly as much. The Romans, in their worsh ip of the phallus, wore amulets of the male genitals (Sec also DOMINANCE/ SUBMISSION, much as we wear religious saints, crosses or TRANSVESTITES and VI~TORIAN LACE) sta rs. The phallus was thought to be a charm to protect one against the evil eye PHALLOPHILIA (Macrogenitalism; and it was worn b y men and women alike. T eratophallic- large penises) Roman men also had their grave stones carved with the likeness of only their h ead MALE: It's not the size of the and their genitals. Early Christians were ship that is important, it's the slow in giving up their worship of the phallus. Some continued to carry the lingam motion of the oceai1. in religious processions and others baked FEMALE: Bui, only a fool would lake a breads in the sh ape of sex orga ns . The Church finally compromised on the bread dinghy out on a stormy sea. by o rdaining that these buns could be accepted in Chri stian hol idays by marking P hall ophi lia (phallus: swelling of genitals, them with a cross; thus the hot cross buns. philia: attachment to) implies a sexual T he people had fer tility saints can onized, attraction that one has for an erect p en is of such as St. Foutin, St. Guerlichon, St. Gilles either extraordinary dimensio ns or at Cotentin, St. Re ne in Anjou, and St. end urance. The Greeks and Romans wor- Guignole of Landevenec. Their statues shipped a god by the name of Priapus who often had large penises and some were wor- was end owed with an exaggerated phallus. shipped by pouring wine onto this member. He was thought to be the son of Aphrodite \"Men would present their afflicted members and Dionysus with conflicting opinions that to the priest to be anointed with oil, and he was sired by Pan, Hermes, or Adonis. 1,400 flasks of oil were consumed every Priapus was abandoned by both parents and yea r for this purpose\" (Sex in History, by G . raised by sheph erds, later becoming the R attray T aylor, pp. 270-71). Christians deity affiliated with flocks , fields, and became fascinated with the prepuce of Jesus orc hards. Other cultures also had th eir and as many as 12 churches claimed to have phallic gods. it in their possession . T his prepuce was sub- stituted by the Church for the statues of Women's fascination with large penises is Priapus, hoping that this would discourage claim ed to have affected our curre nt male his religious influe nce. physiology. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist, co ntends this in her comments, \"[b]ut sex attractants evolved not only on the female. Th rough female choice, the males evolved them too. Of all the primates the human

PHALLOPHILIA 209 PHL EBOTOMY T oday people still give undue concern to The a phrodisiac effect body odor has on the size of their penis and its virility. Penis p eople was fairly common knowledge in the size that matches the length of a partner's past. Krafft-Ebing relates several famous vagina is of greater value. One that is longer cases from Europe. \"The case of Henry III than the vagina w ill pound against the sh ows that contact with a person's perspira- cervix and posterior fornix causing pain tion may be the exciting cause of passionate with possible ulcerations for many women. love. At the betrothal feast of the King of Vaginas vary in length as much as the penis. Navarre and Margaret of Valois, he acci- Penises are also easier to manipulate during dentally dried his face with a garment of oral sex if they are not too large. Maria of Cleves, which was moist with her perspiration. Although she was the b ride of There is a dating ser vice called the the Prince of Conde, H enry conceived \" H ung Jury\" that is design ed for size enthu- immediately such a passionate love for her siasts. Me n must measure at least 8\" in that he could not resist it, and made her, as length (measured from bottom of shaft). history shows, very unhappy. An analogous Conversely, there is a special club, SMALL, instance is related of Henry IV, whose pas- that was begun to offer support for men sion for the beautiful Gabriel is said to have who are not satisfied with the size of their originated at the instant when, at a ball, he penises; it has also grown to encompass wiped his brow with her h andkerchief.\" those who are short in stature. Krafft Ebing also cited the example of a peasant th at had seduced many virtuous (See also AGALMATOPH ILI A, CASTRA - women by carrying a handkerchief under TION, DOCKING, FERTILITY RITES, FESTI- his armp it at dances and once h is partner VALS and PENIS MODIFICATION) began to perspire using it to wipe her face (P sychopathia S exualis, p. 20). Napoleon PHEROMONES Pheromones, a series of also seems to have been attuned to the sh ort-chain alip h atic acids fo und in pri- aphrodisiac effect of pheromones present in mates, are chemicals the body releases that perspiration and is often attributed with the can sexually excite a partner. These enter a command to Josephine, \"D on't wash, I'm person th rough the nostrils and cling to a coming home.\" receptor found in the nasal cavity aacobson's organ or vomeronasal organ). (See also OLFACTION) Unlike molecules that adhere to the olfac- tory system and excite the sense of smell, PHLEBOTOMY Phlebotomy (phlebo: pheromones are diffused directly into the vein; tomy: to cut) is the practice of blood- hypothalamus of the brain and have no odor letting. People once used bloodletting as a of their own. Research is c urrently being substitute for the human sacrifices required done to determine exactly how this system for their deities. Bleeding also came to be functions in humans. u sed w it h magic to rid a person of evil spirits and as their knowledge increased they A refined ability to detect pheromones is used bleeding on injuries and hematomas. more important for finding mates than vision These people und oubtedly noticed that ani- or sound in species that do not live in groups. mals gained relief from stress or facilitated Marking trails with pheromones left in urine healing of infe ctions by tearing th e area and feces serves to lure a potential mate. open and allowing it to b leed. The Greeks Without this ability the odds of the two recorded their observations of manics who meeting during the female's estrus would be became calm and even fell asleep when very low. Advantages this has over sou nd or seeing t h eir ow n blood flow out of a cut. a visual cue is that pheromones can linger for En g lish dentists during the 16 th century days in an area, darkness is ir relevant, and used blood letting on their pat ients. predators usually don't have the ability to Bloodletting remained a common medical detect the pheromone trail of other species. practice of barber/surgeons until the 1850's. Humans, because they evolved in clans, seem The barbersh op blood and bandage striped to have developed a primary dependence on vision rather than pheromones.

PHLEBOTOMY 210 PHOBIAS pole with the receptacle bas in served to with fe ar, temporary stre ss, or b y separa- advertise their profession. tion, overp rotection, or rejection by parents when young. People can feel anything from Bloodletting was introduced into reli- m ild anxiety when co nfronted with the gious practices when early Catholic monks source of their fear to an extreme panic discovered R o ma n medical texts that attack. One traumatic experience or a series warned against celibacy because it poison ed of negative experiences in relationships that a man's blood. They then took it upon produce painful feeli ngs or rejecti on can themselves to bleed each other to reduce the condition a person to automatically react risk of toxins in their blood. This practice with fear in the future. A well known, and soon spread to single males in the general still controversial scientist, claims that \"even populace as a prophy lactic for c hast ity. a single exposure to a brief stressful event- Females wer e not r equ ired to be bled be it environmental or pharmacological- because of their menses. However, some can induce extremely persistent, cascading P u ritan women used it as a fo rm of ab or- sens itiza ti on to subse quent stressors or ti o n . related stimuli which recall the memory of the original trauma (Antelman et al. 1980, The co nn ec ti o n between bloodletti n g 1987, 1988; Antel ma n and C hio do 1983; and sex has persisted and today som e Antelman 1988). We have recently pro- people still fi nd intense sexual arousal from posed that such findings may be relevant to either seeing blood on a partner or from the development of syndromes such as bleeding th emselves. This fa lls under the delayed post-traum atic stress disorder, general category of blood sports; however, bulimia and panic (Antelman 1988).\" unlike othe r activities where bl oodletting (Psychopharmacology, (1989)98:97- 101). may be a by-p roduct, h ere it is the central aspect. People often combine bleeding with An example of a panic attack is the case masturbati on, e nj oying the simultaneou s of a woman with a phobia of relationships sex ual relief that each offers. Techniqu es who when asked for a second date experi- inclu de making small cuts on the skin, ences classic symp toms such as hea rt palpi- puncturing a vein with a h ypodermic tations, chest pain, feelings of suffocation, needle, or piercing of a nipple and placing a dizzin ess, a n d sweaty palms. Others may suction cup from a snake bite kit over the exp erien ce a shortness of breath, ho t area to draw and collect the blood. flashes, cold flashes, feelings o f faintness, and trembling. The body responds so fran- (S ee also BLOOD SPORTS, C ICATRIZA - tically that even if the person feels a strong T ION, MASOCHISM and VAMPIRISM) attraction it beco m es insignificant when compa red to the relief felt whe n the rela- PHOBIAS Sexual phobias are prevalent tionship is e nded.A num ber o f people, and include su ch things as: about one in 40 in the U nited States, suffer from obsessive com pulsive disorder. These PHOBIA AVERSION TO are \" haunted by disturbing thoughts, usu- a u ro mysopho bia getting dirry ally abou t contami natio n, violence and coirophobia imercourse sexual issues. \" Scientists feel that this di s- erorophobia sexual love order is caused by a lower level of serotonin gamophobia marriage in the brain. Those su ffering from obsessive gymnophobia nakedness fea rs in vo lving sex u al issues ca n n ow be harmarophobia in a d e q ua cy helped by medication. (\"Angst,\" by Claire h yp engyoph obia responsibility Con way, Stanford Medicine, Spring 1992, ma ieusiophobia pregnancy pp. 26-30) CAUTION: Phobics who are in naphephobia rouch relationships often try coping with their fear p a rh o p h o b i a diseases (STDs) by numbing it with alcohol or by avoiding scopophobia being looked ar the p roblem. spermarophobia semen loss vaginismus penetration (See also PHOBOPHIUA) A sex oriented phobia m ay be caused by societal guilt, a negative experience with intimacy, a lack of experience in coping

PHOBOPHILI A 211 PHO NE SEX PHOBOPHILIA (Terror Play) Phobo- control. The bottom is not give n time to philia (phobo: fea r ; philia: attachment) rest, analyze, or p redict be hav ior. CAU- refers to people who become sexually TION: The top (dominant) is responsible aroused by fear provoking stimuli. This is for the phys ical and emotional safety of n ot surprising considering many people find their partner. A person wh o is being forced such th ings as carnival rides and horror to cope with phobias may react with hys- movies so entertaining. People who do not teria, scre aming, violence, silence, or perceive an event as involving real or imme- fainting. diate danger can t ransfer this anx ie ty to sexual arousal. (Refer to PARAPHILIAS.) (\" Terror,\" by J. C .C., QSM lecture, Almost anything that can initiate the November 28, 1990) figh t/flight response can be transferred to sexual arousal. O ur bodies respond to each (See also ABDUCTION, ACROPHILIA, of these by producing adrenalin that speeds CLAUSTR O PHILI A, HODOPHILIA , JEAL- up our hearts, and increasing oxygen intake OUSY and PHYGEPHILIA) to prepare us for a fight, fligh t, or sex. The m ost com mon fo rm of phobophilia is the PHONE SEX (Telephonicophilia- type where a couple h as sex in a public arousal from discussing sex on telephone) place, risking discovery (agoraphilia). Phone sex implies a dialogue be tween two or more consenting ad ults with at least one SM scenes are often designed to maxi- person engaging in masturbati o n. (No n- m ize the effects of fear. The black leather consensual phone sex is referred to as an and chain costumes are made to look evil, obscene phone call.) the whips an d paddles appear more inju- rious than in reality, dungeons look cold and Couples who are not able to be together menacing, and the dialogue makes one feel use phone sex to simulate coitus. Others inferior and defenseless. find that phone sex o ffe rs more diversity than they can obtain otherwise. Any sexual T error is used in S/M scenes to create deviation or otl1erwise p hysically impossible passion by capitalizing on a person's pho- feat becomes a reality in verbal sex. Some of bias. A person takes the information they these fantasies prove educatio nal with have about a partner's fear and uses it regard to what turns a partner on and may dur ing a scen e. For instance, a person who provide new ideas for inventive p lay. Since is afraid of heights may be forced to climb one is absolutely safe from contracting a ladders, if frightened by co nfinement they sexually transmitted disease, pho ne sex is may be locked in a closet, those who get currently enjoying unprecedented popu- weak a t the sight o f needles might be larity. pierced, those that are afraid of losing their temper will be pushed to the edge. The Special n ewspapers or magazi nes adver- games of terror not only produce passion, tise professional phone sex services for bonding, and trust, but have the benefit of interested parties. These may co nsist of desen sitizing a person to their original party lines for novices, bulletin board per- phobia. A person \"vho su ccessfull y co mes sonal ads, a recording made by a profes- through th ese experie nces often fee ls sional, or a live professional that will follow empowered and better able to face other a person's cue as to the type of fantasy they fears with courage. The technique for cre- want to hear. The services are staffed by ating terror in a partner requires quick adult heterosexuals, gays and lesbians. Ads unpredictable actio n, follow-through on usually have a provocative photograph and threats, u sing blind fo lding with strange adverti se such things as: \"Biza rre Erotic sounds, and physical control by the size of a Fantas ies\"; \" Dominant Bi tch \"; \" Y ou r dominan t partner, u se o f bondage, disci- Personal Slave\"; \" Forbidden Games-Foot pline, or knowledge of pressure points and F etishes, Cross-dr essing, G olden Showers, wrestling holds. Dialogue and constant chal- Enemas,\" \" Infant ili sm\"; \" Wrestlin g\"; lenge is imporrant in reta ining power and \"Black Mistresses\"; and \" Ultimate Telephone T orture.\" The erotic phone lines in N ew York during 1983 received an

PH ONE SE X 212 P IE THR OW IN G average of \"500,000 call s dai ly\" (Time This attitude carries over into the crim- M agazine, 1983). A new service has the inal's con fess io n s once apprehended an d capability o f the caller seeing the woman o n they often use gross details of their mutila- his television screen as she obeys his special tions to shock the police a nd to arroga ntly requests display their superio r intelligence because, while the police arrested the killer from evi- (Sec also ACOUSTICOPHILIA, COMPUTER dence on one or two cases, he had ki lled SEX, FANTASY PLAY and OBSCENE PHONE many more victims. CALLS) (S ee al so HARPAXOPHILIA , HYl3RISTO- PHOTOGRAPHY (Pictophilia- arousal PHILIA, PHOBOPHILIA, SYMPHOROPH ILIA from pictures or photography) Many people and VICARIOUS AROUSAL) photograph their partner or themselves during sex for arousal, ofte n viewing the PIE THROWING P ie throw ing is a n photos later. Self-developing ca meras make amusing form of defilement. Pies have been complete confiden tiality possible for cou- thrown at parties, in fi lms and by couples in ples. private. There is even a gay p ie throwing club. Consensual photo sessions of nude males o r females ca n be arousing even without any On e individual, type of sexual activity or gen ital display. A \" Pieface Mike\" few married couples consent to having their (or, the \"Pie- spouses pose nude for others to photograph Man\") began his as a hobby. \"pie- play\" at the age of 8. At 18, he T here are businesses in the sex districts started to find it of major cities whe re men can either take sexually stimu- photos of professional women or be pho- lating, and now tographed with them in an erotic pose. likes to be \"pied\" during intercourse. A self- These photos are popular with men who proclaimed \"pisexual,\" he has expanded his want to take a souvenir of their trip back to pleasure into a performance art. their buddies in a small town. The PieMan has found a public intrigued (Sec also COM PUTER SEX, PERSONAL by \"pie ings .\" He approaches peop le in ADS, PORNOGRAPHY and SNUFF F lLiViS) clubs and art events, inviting women to rub pies in his face. Most accept, often findi ng a PHYGEPHILIA Phygep hilia (phyge: release in pieing a willi ng man. Mike enjoys flight; phil ia: lu st) refers to sexual arou sal the giggling and comments they make. As fe lt from fl ight. The p ublic flock to see she slaps him with dessert, a woman might movies about Bonn ie and Clyde, notorious say \" Here's your pie, SIR!\"- and then mas- m ob leaders, and gunfighte rs of the old sage the PieMan with p ie-cream . H e's been West, m a n y of vv h o m ma y h ave been p ied by so me 700 wome n be tween 1990 ph ygephiliacs. a nd 1992. There are many cases where men have Elements of arousal associated \\\\·ith pie toyed with the police, even giving them throwing include anticipation, vulnerability leads to keep the excitement going. One of and hum iliatio n. Enticement by the pied these was an Englishman named Neil partner and an empowerment in the assertive Cream, a lust murderer and drug addict act of the one who \"pies\" contribute to a who su pported his habit by performing mutual thrill, and they have the opportu ni ty abortions . Cream preferred to poison his to say or do the unexpected during this inti- victims and then retreat to a safe place to mate moment. T here are also erotic \"messy\" visua lize their agony. \" [H]e is said to have videos and magazines that include scenes of derived further erotic pleasure from being women being pied. pursued by t he police- ano ther aspect of criminal sex deviations little appreciated but (See also DEFILEMENT and SITOPIIJLIA) n ot too uncommon\" (Perverse Crimes in Histo1y, by Masters a nd Lea, p. 165).

PIERCINGS 213 PIERCINGS PIERCINGS (B elon ephilia-aro usal hang ornaments from fish hooks, and some from piercings) A piercing in this text refers remove needles by whipping them out. to temporarily puncturing the skin. Fakir Musafar once gave a demonstration (Permanent piercings are referred to as wh ere two people were pierced, blindfolded, ringing.) and joined b y a cord ti ed to each need le. The people were then instructed to move Piercings were used by many ancient cul- around and gently tug on the taut cords. tures in their rites of passage. The piercings Some play d a rts b y fi lling a syringe with u sed by so me cultures were in fact m u ch water and, pushing ha rd and fas t on the more horrendous than the skin piercings plunger, to sending the needle flying used today. There are Mayan artifacts through the air to its destination. Other depicting a man pulling a cord with pro- areas that are often p ie rced are the nipples. truding thorns through his tong ue. Plains T he nipple is tougher than other areas and a Indians have Su n Dance ceremonies where larger gau ge needle is used. T he needle is th ey pierce the muscle above each breast never inserted straight into the nipple with a stick and, tying cords to the ends, toward the body but always parallel so that hang from a tree until either the stick or the the tip of the needle is visible on each side muscle tears loose. Hindu India ns h ave until of the nipple once pierced. recently used many ritualistic piercings. These include hanging by hooks, lying on a The labia is often pierced following the b ed of nails, sewing fruit to the body, and same guidelines as for nipples. Kavandi dancing in which a cage of spears is suppo rted by th e u pper bod y an d th e T h e glan s penis is pierced but piercing ends slowly pen etrate th e skin as the person the shaft can lead to serious damage of the dances or moves. The C hinese have used caverno sa, n erves, and vessels. T he glans acu punct u re, the insertion of needles, in tends to bleed more than other parts of the medical practice for hundreds of years. A bod y. The sc r otal sack is pierced m ore different category of user, the drug addict, often. The needles are anchored to prevent sometimes fixates on the needle and addicts movement. Some people u se something have described its penetration and the similar to a but- drawing of their blood to be like masturba- terfly board . A tion (Howard and Borges, 1971, as quoted square piece of in The M any Faces of Suicide, p. 2 71). Maso nite is used and a styrofoam Others have derived a more direct form core of the same of a rousal from piercings. Hirsch feld wrote size is cut a nd of a German wh o posed as a physician and placed over the visited schools and hom es to examin~ young b oard with two girls. In full sight of parents and teachers he sheets of paper wou ld undress the girls an d stick needles glued on top. The into th em , pa u sing p e riodically to make penis and testicles are pulled up through a notations. It was soon discovered that he round h ole that has been cut in the middle was a farm laborer and he was imprisoned. and the scrotum is then stretched and pinned at the corners. Testicles are occa- The m ost common form of piercing sionally pierced but there are risks of the fou nd in S/M play is that of simply push ing needle breaking, moving and teari ng tissue, a small 25 to 18 gauge sterile hypodermic or introducing pathogens into the testicle. n eedle thro ugh a small portion of skin. These needles are not always available so Piercing of the fingernails is very rarely barbless fish hooks, staples, and sewing n ee- done due to the severe pain. There are a few dles are often substituted. people who are involved in serious foot tor- ture, someti mes negotiating to have their People are inventive with games devised partner insert needles under their toenails. to entertain the bottom when pierced. They may weave patterns with tinsel around the People fascinated with piercing explain needles, put clothespins over the center of their arousal with the description of the the needles, connect the needles with a cord, uniqu e sensation of feeli ng something cut

PIER C I NG S 214 PODOPHILIA through their skin. It is very rarely con sid- PINCHING (Thlip sosis-arousa l from ered a painful experience yet endorphin s pinching) Some peop le ar e arous ed b y seem t o b e released almost immediate ly. pinching their partner during sex or by CAUTION: P iercing the ski n is a blood being p inched themselves . The mos t sport and therefore is not safe. (Refer to common areas are the nipples, upper thighs, SAFE SEX) and the back. (\"Piercing,\" by Raelyn Gallina, Outcasts (See also BITING, CUPPfNG, lecture, September 15, 1989; \"Play Piercing SCRAT CHING, SENSORY ENHAN CEMENT as Art and Sensation,\" by Celeste, QSM and T ICKLING) lecture, September 17, 1990) PLANTS See APHROD ISIACS, FLAGELLA- (See also BLOOD SPORTS, RINGING and SAFE SEX) T ION/BIR CHING, SITOPH TLIA and URTICA- TION PIMPS (Pa nderer, Procu rer; Jack- gagger- if it i s h usband, Leno-ma l e, PODOPHILIA (Foot fetish) Podophilia Lena-female) Pi mps are people wh o live (podos: foot; philia: attraction to) refers to off the proceeds gai ned from sol iciting the sexual arousal certain people experience clients fo r a prostitute. Th e prostitu tes when exposed to feet. It is only considered a working with a pimp d o so volu ntarily. fetish when one either favo rs these in lieu of H oweve r, th e cond it io n s a re often a human partner or has to focus their atten- deplorable for the women and would seem tion on the feet of a partner to achieve to fa ll in to a similar category as that of orgasm. abused wives. A procurer or panderer dif- fe rs fro m pimps in t hat th ey deceive the The C hinese have probably had the victim into working for a bordello for which longest romance with feet, going t o extreme they a re given a commission by the madam measures in creating erotic effects. T his cul- or manager of the house. ture prac ticed the b inding of g irl 's feet, P rostitutes g ravitate towa rd p imps fo r and occasionally those several reasons. T hese men, unlike most, of catamites ( b oy accept their lifestyle, under stand their prob- lovers) , fro m the 10th lems, appear to remain personally unaf- cent ury until the fected by the woman 's sexu al power, and l 930's. Other Asian create an illusion of self confidence, afflu- countries, such a s en ce, a n d m ac hismo. A prostitute u suall y Japan, Korea, Tibet, d erives her self-esteem from he r ability to Indonesia, and M on- manipu late me n and earn s mo netary com- golia, sometimes did this but never to the pensation from it. A pimp profits from rein- same degree. A Chinese girl's feet were first forcing this image, encou raging her to bound at the age of five to seven and con- continue her work and relying on her ability tinued to be bound until they quit growing to succeed. Some women receive benefits at age eighteen. This resulted in a foot size from th eir association with pimps, such as of about 2\" wide and 4 \" long. The skin on protection, bail money, a n apartment, and the bottom of the feet remained soft and eve n a savings accoun t. H oweve r, oth ers supple because walking was restricted. The find that because a pimp has to remain in feet were perfumed and covered by embroi- co ntrol at all times he often uses violence to dered satin or silk booties with padded w in an argument. He may use addictive soles. Women occasionally masturbated by drugs as a m eans to keep women from rubbing their feet and lesbians would put leaving and he tears down a woman's self their big toe into each other's vaginas . confidence by not encouraging h er to Males indulged in such podophilic delights broaden her base skills and attributes from as engulfing the foot in t heir mouth, biting, which she achieves self-esteem. licking, sucking, t hrusting their penis between the bowed arches, being mastur- (See also BORDELLOS, ILLEGAL SEX and bated by their partner's feet, washing her PROSTITUTION)

PODO P HIL I A 215 POR NOGRA PH Y feet in tea and drinking it, trimming her toe- order photos or videos of a barefoot woman nails, placing almonds between her toes and pumping the accelerator of several cars, eating them, and performing fellatio on her trying to start the en gine, as well as many big toe (Chinese Foot Binding, by Howard other poses of the feet. A sample ad for the S. Levy, 1972). Barefoot Digest Annual reads, \"Full-color photo sets: TOES, FOOT-BOTTOMS, WRIN- A few men cannot resist the impulse to KLED SOLES, DIRTY SOLES, FOOT- have sexual contact with feet. The March KISSING, FOOT-TICKLING... AND BOND - 19, 1992 San Francisco Examiner carried an AGE.\" There is also a \"Foot Fraternity\" Associated Press article that read: club in Ohio that sells foo t fetish material for gay males. TOE SUCKER CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE (See also ACROTOMO PHILIA, BINDING/ St. Louis- A man who allegedly knocked down FEET, FETISHES, MASSAGE and TORTURE) girls and young women, took off their shoes and sucked their toes was charged with sexual abuse POLYITEROPHILIA Polyiterophilia Wednesday. \"It's kind of a humiliating refers to those people who have to have a thing- I think emotionally it just degraded series of consecutive sex p artners before them,\" said Maj. Ronald Henderson, a police they can orgasm. John Money refers to this commander. [E.J .], 28, was charged with phenom.ena in Love & Love Sickness: assault, indecent exposure and sexual abuse in incidents from January until two weeks ago (p. This is the polyiterative subtype of hyperphilia, Al 4). or polyiterophilia. It is fairly well documemed in the activities of some homosexual males. Its There are many reasons feet are said to be definitive characteristic is that a man or arousing. Feet are often the first part of a woman builds up his or her own responsiveness mother or father which a toddler touches. towards orgasm alone or with a partner by reit- Likewise, parents often play with toddlers erating the same activity many times with by pushing them wi th their feet or letting many different partners in a limited period of them ride one of their feet. Another aspect time... To illustrate, a homosexual male with involved in the sexual attraction of feet is the syndrome of polyiterophilic fellatio will be that love objects always have a barrier o r able to reach an orgasm with his own partner obstacle to attainmen t and feet are less only after accu mulating a dozen \"blow jobs,\" available to many partners than the genitals. that is acts offellatio, on different men at, say, The feet are also less threatening for those a steam bath or sauna club. (The J o hn with coital difficulty because, unlike the Hopkins University Press, Baltimore/ genitals of a partner, they do not make London, 1980, pp. 263-4. Rep rinted by demands for perfect sexual performance. permission of the publisher.) The preferences for types of feet vary In polyiterophilia the person seems unable dramatically. Some like toe nails with a cer- t o orgasm with a partner without first tain color polish, others focus o nly on the engaging in sex with others. big roe and want it painted dark burgundy with the nail long and filed to a point. (See also CANDAULISM, GANG BANGS and GROUP SEX) Special clubs and bordellos exist for people interested in podophilia. The prosti- PORNOGRAPHY (Ordure; Graphelag- tutes engage in acts similar to t hose of the nia, Iconolagny and Pictophilia-arousal Chinese men, except that the roles are often from pornography) Pornography (porne: a reversed and men will sometimes insert their prostitute; and graphos: to write) originally big toe into the woman's vagina. There is referred to writing about prostitutes and also a 69 position where instead of h aving later came to include any text that is specifi- o ral sex the couples suck on each other's cally designed to elicit sexual desire. A few feet. High heels, foot tickling, erotic torture, feminist groups have recently modified the and bondage are also available. There are term to mean erotic material that leads to foot fetish magazines that have articles, per- sonal ads, and advertisements. One may

POR NOGRAPHY 216 POR OGRAP H Y violence, rape, and degradation of wome n. Today o rganizatio ns such as the Their adherence to this belief and resultant \"C h rist ian Coa li ti o n \" l egisl ate agai n s t lobbying has led to an attack on pornog- homosexuality, abortion, and certain depic- raph y that indirec tly threatens a rt, m usic, ti ons of sex on television. Thei r goal is evi- and even medicine. dent from a statement mad e by Ralph Reed, their Execut ive D irector. \"What Ch ristians A few fundam entalists and a majority of have got to do is take back this coun try, one conformists can have a major influence on a p recinc t at a time.\" Th ese people fai l t o society. As late as two hundred years ago in show the sam e magnan imous attitude as our Engla nd private societi es for th e su ppres- fo unders. George Washi ngton made it clear sion of vice succeed ed in banning \" lice n- in the Trea ty with Tripoli ( 1796), that ti ous publica ti o n s\" su ch as The Rights of \"The government of the United States of M an an d Age of R eason by Tom Paine. In America is not in any sense founded o n 1820 Palme r 's Principles of Nawre, and C hristi an religion.\" Shelley's Oedipus Tyranims were p rosecuted as \" seditio us works.\" Ch ristians were for- Control of the majority by the censorship bidden to attend the theatre o r to read o f the few is by no mea ns restri cted to the novels which were \" instru men ts of abomi- ploys of fu ndamentalists or fe m inists. The nati on a nd ruin.\" People's vocabulary had Tiananmen Square protest in C hina led to a to c han ge; words like sweat, pregnant, sex, year o f arrests, martial law and now a crack- and acts of defecati on had to be replaced d own on pornograph y. U nd er th e new laws wi th m ore delicate and evasive wo rd s. that became effective in November 1990, Wome n bega n desc rib ing the location of m en a nd women arrested for selling their pain to their doctors by pointing to a pornography a re being given tough sen- simil ar sp ot on a d o ll . An y pa r t of their t ences. Sexual morals have noth ing to do body that was b etween their neck and knees with the reb ellion or demands that the stu- began to be referred to as the \" liver. \" Even d en ts made, but laws against sexual expres- p iano legs had to be cove red w ith baggy sion affect everyone a nd intimidation is the linen so as to not arouse men because of the swiftest method a falte ring govern ment has resem blan ce they had to a wom an's legs. of re-es tablis hi n g co nt ro l. O n the other T h is was a resurgence of the same type of hand, im mediately upon win n ing their repression found in the 17th centu ry when freedo m t he comm u ni st block co u ntries Ga lileo and Campanella were tortured and have begun to a llow sex sh ops to operate Descartes narrowly escaped th e same fate more openly. Katchadourian and Lunde, because of censorship by the Church. S ta n fo rd professors, relate t hi s standard political ploy. \" The total itaria n states- T he U nited States Congress p assed our F ascist Italy, azi Germa ny, Spain, Ru ssia, first anti- p ornograph y law in 1873 as the a nd C hina-did control, or still d o control, res u lt of in ten se lobbying by An tho ny the pu ri ty of thei r a rt, fo r reasons whi ch are Comstock, Secretary of the \"New York p ol itica l, rather t h an st ri c tl y arti stic or Society for the Su ppression of Vice.\" T his moral. Fascist and Communist dictato r- man was then appoin ted \" a special agent of ships alike have insisted that art be uncom- the Post Office D epartment and granted the p lica t ed , inoffe n sive, and ideo logica ll y righ t to open any letter, package, book, or correct. Obscenity, in the ir view, is merely pamp h let pass in g t h rough t h e ma il s. H e one sympto m of a basic decadence. In personall y had the powe r to d ecide wh at curing the root e\\·il, wh ich is ind ividual was lewd o r obscen e, an d since he was a freed om, these regimes have removed their narrow- minded, p ru d ish fa natic, he soo n nations from participation in th e mai n- established a dictatorial reign of puri tan ical strea m of twe n tie th-century art and ha ve terror which lasted over 40 years. M any of granted their peoples and their arti sts the his victims were physicians who tried to comforts of insularity-untroubled by eroti c help their patien ts with b irth control infor- fanta sies\" (Fundamentals of H uman Sexuality, p. 354). m a ti o n \" ( The Sex Alias, b y E rw in J. H aeberle, pp. 377-8) .

POR NOG RAPHY 217 POWER TOOLS People worry that if they are exposed to a cen tage, and stayed down- an effec t not variety of sex practices they will lose all co n- ac cou n ted for by li beralized societal atti- trol and indulge in dangerous or repulsive tu des, increased under-reporting, or less acts. The facts ar e that pe op le r a rely diligence on the part of the p olice (all of deve lop a desi re for so mething they for- which were very carefully checked out in the merly co nsidered re pulsive sim ply becau se st ud y) .... [A) grea t deal -no t all- o f th e of exposure. sexual contacts between adult he terosexual men and girls is committed by m en who are President Reagan approved the establ ish- not tru e pedophiles... Instead, much of it is ment of the \" Meese Commission\" to inves- contact by shy or inept heterosex ual men tigate pornogra phy. Marty Klein , a who would prefer sex witl1 adult women but p ro minent sexologist, elaborates further. \" In are frust rated in their attempts : men who 1986, R onald Reaga n created t h e M eese fo u nd , usua ll y acc identally a t fi rs t, t hat C omm issio n wit h th e express purp ose of younger wom en or girls are less com petent destroying the pornography industry. It was in resisting their advan ces... mu ch hetero- wi dely expected that the commission would sexual child m olestati on is substiwtional in issue a report linking pornography to sex ual nature: such men apparen tly can resist con- violence ... however, things did not go tac ts with girls if they substitute masturba- exactly as planned. The Meese Commission tio n with p ornography d epicting tl1eir main could fi n d n o cau sal link betwee n sexuall y interest, adu lt women\" (Sexual Landscapes, exp licit materials and sexu ally aggress ive by James D. W einrich, Ph.D. , pp. 397-8) . behavior. T o its surprise, the co mmission also found that less than one percent of the (Sec also COMPUTER SEX, ILLEGAL SEX imagery in the most popular p orn maga- and SNUFF FILMS) zines was of 'fo rce, vio lence, or weapons.' And yet, desp ite these and other well-kn own POWER TOOLS P ower tools used in sex findings, a surprising number of people- games inclu de drills, hedge clippers, wood many of them otherwise staunch defenders lathes, weed eater s, sanders, milking of ou r First Ame nd m e n t rights- w ish to m achines, an d modified electric chain saws. censor pornography in the interests o f some People who engage in many of these activi- g reater social good\" (\"Censorship and the ties are in danger of mutilatin g themselves F ea r of Sex uality,\" THE H UMANI ST, and cau sing serious injury. July/August 1990, by M arty Klein , p. 15). D rill s have been adapted for urethral T actics employed by opponents o f p lay by inserting a long wooden cotton swab pornography include emphasizing the min- (i.e. those used for cleaning VCR heads) imal a mount of \"kiddy p orn \" and lobbying into the drill 's chuck. T he protruding cotton against th is, as people will rare ly d efend this tip has a gen e ro u s a m o unt of o il based type of child abu se. T he \" kidd y porn\" laws lub ri ca n t rubbed into it. T he drill is then are then wri tten in a way t h at eliminates turned on and the tip of the cotton swab is many innocuous types of pornography or inserted just inside the urethra. Some hold nudity. th e fl at side o f a 10 , 000 rpm fin ishi ng sander that is attached to an air compressor The repression of true child pornography on their cli toris. O ne m an b rings h imself to see ms to h ave merit; however, the abol ition orgasm by h olding th e han dle of a weed- of a ll p orn og raphy in societies has grave eate r against hi s ge nitals while tr imming conseque nces that invo lve an even grea ter grass. number o f innocent children. Dr. James \\Xleinrich, a prominent scientist and sexolo- D ri lls a re also used with a m odified gist, holds the p osition that \" [t]here is evi- dildo. T he dildo is designed so th a t a pro- den ce... tha t permitting pornog raphy can jection extends through the base for a ttach- reduce c hild sexual abuse. In D enmark, fo r ment to th e drill chuc k. T he di ldo is exa mpl e, afte r legali za ti on of hard-core lubri ca ted a n d in serted in an o ri fice and pornograph y in the I 960's, child sexual turned on. This can be dangerous if the abu se went down by a ve ry substantial per- p rojection tears through the rubber cover of

P O W E R TOOLS 218 PREMAT U RE EJA CU LATIO N the dildo. Neither of th ese uses for a d rill coital connections\" (Masters and Johnson, are considered safe. W ood lathes have b een H uman Sexual Inadequacy, Boston: Little, adapted for sex by lining the socket end Brown). T h e easiest definition to reme mber with soft fab ric and inse rt ing the glans is that of D . W . H astings, who \"su ggests pen is. Milking machines g ive a d ifferen t considering the man 's subjective judgment sen sation. T he rubber sleeve unit is placed a n d defi nes as p rem atu re any ejacul ati on onto the penis and the other end of the cu p that th e man d oes ' not yet' want\" is eithe r left on the teat of the cow or closed (\"Co mm on sex u al dysfunction s: I. impo - off to produce suction. T he sleeve then tence, II . ejaculatio praecox, III. lac k of milks the erect penis. female response.\" Psychiacr Ann I (4): 10 - 31 ). (-both cited in The Treatment of Chain saws are used as part of a mock Sexual Disorders, Concepts and Techniques of castration scene solely for the excitement of Couple Therapy by Gerd Are ntewicz and a partner. A chain saw is mo di fied by G un ter Sch midt, p . 2 1). P r ima l man i s rem oving the chain or blade that rotates believed to have had to catch and mate with around the groove in the protru d ing oblong a female either before she broke free or he was displaced by a dominant male. Kinsey m etal plate. T he reported th at 75% of men surveyed ejacu- mock castration lated within three minutes of penetra tion . scene is set u p O ther p rimates take about 15 seconds. This b y restraining condition exists in both sexes, but society t h e partner fl a t seems concerned o nly with th e male. o n a bed or Premature ejaculation is comm on and can against a wall. A stem from many reason s. One is the envi- blindfold is used ronment where m os t teenage boys learn at the beginning their sexu ality. H ere masturbation is usually of the scene to prevent th e partner fro m rush ed th rough to avoid de tection, condi - detecting the a rtificial natu re of th e props. tioning the person to foc us on the orgasm T he partner's genitals are then scrubbed without being able to emotionally relax and down with alcohol and tied in a snug (but enjoy intimacy with a partner. O ther causes n ot ti gh t) tou rniqu et fas h ion aro u n d th e may be a physical disorder that ind uces pain base of the penis. The patient is told that it which acts as a stim ul us, fear of intimacy, is time for the castration and might be given the len gth o f time since las t en counter, a on e last re qu est. T he c hain saw is started new partner, or u ndeveloped muscle con- and slowly lowered so that the pla te rests trol. There are no simple cures, however. If against th e to p of th e genita ls fo r a brief a urologist and therap ist have been con- moment. This type of sex p lay is safe so sul ted withou t p os itive results, one m ay long as the consenting partner has a healthy wan t to experim en t with so me of the fol- cardiovascular system. CAUTION: A chain lowin g suggestions: saw without the blade removed is extremely dangerous. It may even cause injury without Discuss anxiety ahead of time with the being turned on . Extreme care is used for all partner. other power tools as well. (See also GEN ITAL/ANAL INSERTS, SAFE Exe rcise the m uscles while u rinating SEX, SEX TOYS and SYB IAN) by stopping the flow several times. PREMATURE EJACULATION (Ejac- Try not to focus on o rgasm as the pri- ulatio praecox, Preblysis, Tachorgasmia) mary goal. Premature is defined in many ways. These range from ejaculation before the couple h as M astu rbate before having sex with a undressed to \" when the man is unable to partner. control ejaculation fo r long enough to sat- isfy his partner in at least 50 p ercent of their Use condoms to reduce some of the sensations.

PREMAT URE EJACULATION 219 PRO ST IT UT ION H ave a glass of wine or beer and avoid Mosle m s, South American trib es, and caffeine. Orthodox Jews. Methods used to facilitate this separation include the use of two Stop or withdraw the penis during rooms, a c urtain o r partition ca ll ed a intercourse if it becomes too intense. machetza, or simply a distance between the two sexes. Some synagogues provide mixed Push upward on t h e perineum (1/2 seating in the middle with segregated sec- way between anus and scrotum) tions to each side. before feeling an imminent orgasm in order to relieve pressure that is b uilt A Hindu yogi once explained this tradi- up in the prostate gland. This may tion to surprised Americans by saying it was first be practiced alone during mastur- as simp le as separating apples and oranges; bation. the two sexes are merely different. Rabbis explain prisha by saying people come to the Pressure or slight pain on the soles of synagogu e to worshi p and God sh ould be the feet may inhibit orgasm. foremost on their mind, not romance. Therefore, temporarily removing tem pta- Tantra training or breath control is tion only allows fo r better concentration in valuable for some. prayer. (Females are n ot und er Biblical command to pray together in groups as are Use a squeeze technique where the the males.) thumb is positioned on the frenum with the fi ngers on th e opposite side (See also HAREMS, NIDDAH and PURDAH) along the rim. This is held for about 15 seconds. PROFESSIONAL DOMINATRIX See Men who overcome premature ejaculation DOMINATRIX, PROFESSIONAL and learn to restrain themselves for long periods of time often discover that spouses PROSTITUTION (Harlotry, Foreign remain inorgasmic. The wife's problem can woman, Scortum, Yoshiwara; Cyprieunia- often be masked by her blaming the hus- sex with prostitute, Gigolos- male prosti- band. There are women, who knowing that tute) Prostitute (p ro: before; and statuere: a man ejaculates in two to three minutes, to cause to stand) is the Latin word that will rush to orgasm themselves, proving that refers to people who receive monetary com- timing is not always a probl em . pensation fo r sex. The Roman s used the Unfortunately som e women train them- following prerequisites to determine one's selves to orgasm through masturbation tech- status. A prostitute was one who engaged in niques that do not adapt well to penetration sex pro pecuria, palam, and sine delecta-that by a male. These include using fingers or is for money, for the public, and without vibrators in a rapid motion. A person that p leasure. Prostitution is practiced by men, requires prolonged stimulus is said to have women, and children. (See Caution). d ysorgasmia. The original H ebrew word used for pros- There are many excellent resource books titute was k'deshah, which meant sacred or for people wanting to improve their sex holy. Organized p rostitution was originally lives . One is titled The Complete Guide to engaged in by temple priestesses and the Sexual Fulfillment, Your Questions Answered, money gained used to support the house of published by Prometheus Books. worsh ip . Aphrodite 's priestesses usually remained in h er service until th eir death. (See also IMPOTENCE) Temple prostitution diminished with the invasion of patria rchal tribes and late r PRISHA ( I scholagny- avo idance of ended with the spread of Christianity. fem ales to p reve nt a rousal) Prisha is the Hebrew word used to describe the separa- Petrie observed that the \"early preva- tion of the sexes. Several of the ancient reli- lence of mother-right was more favorable to gions engaged in this practice and it is still the sexu al freedom of women than the later found in places of worship among Hindus, patriarchal system. Thus in very early

PROS TIT UT I ON 220 PROST I TUT ION Egyptian days a woman could give her in reforming the women, Theodora d id not favors to any man she chose by sending him ch ange her op inion as to th e best strategy her garment, even if she were married.\" In for their reform. time the growth of the righ ts of m en led to this being regarded as criminal, but the Today men who hire prostitutes may do priestesses of Amen, being under divine so after a date without sex, between girl- protection, retained the privilege to the last. friends, for sex that they think their partner (Flinders Petrie, Egyptian Tales, pp. 10, 48) would not perform, wanting variety, or for sex without commitment or guilt to name Prostitutes, regardless of social stigma, just a few of the p ossibilities. So me pur- were u sed by kings, soldiers, cru saders, chase the entire night to guarantee that the comm oners, and even the notorious P ope woman will not abandon them after sex, and Alexander VI who in I SO 1 went down in some men reason that what they pay the history as having the most licentious orgy at prostitute is less expensive than a date. the Vatican. Burchard, a papal histo rian, te lls h ow, \"on e evening in Octobe r 1SO 1, Women choose to become prostitutes for the Pope ordered fifty prostitutes to be sent just as ma n y reaso n s. The p ay is grea ter to his chambers. After supper, they danced than other types of jobs available to women, with the servitors and others who were pre- they find it exciting, they need male atten- sent, at first clothed but before long naked. tion, and fo r some women without job skills Then lighted candles in can dlesticks were it may be th e only job available. Al most all placed on the floor and chestnuts were of the prostitutes in third world countries thrown among them, and the women were and many in America are mothers who are ordered to crawl between the candlesticks tryi ng to supp ort their fam il y. Charging on their h ands and knees a nd to try to p ick men makes some feel in control, others up the chestnuts. Finally a number of prizes enjoy the variety of sex partners, and some were produced, and it was announced that d o it out of revenge for a philandering hus- they would be given to those men who, in band. the opinion of the spectators, 'should have carnal knowledge of the greatest number of Many prostitutes learn to become insen- the said prostitutes'\" (Sex in History, by G. sitive, since she and the client a re e ngaged Rattray T aylor p. 141). in exchanging commodities, and this can ca u se ei t h e r to f eel used emotiona ll y. Ancient Rom ans accepted prostitution to Prostitutes vary as to what type of sexual prevent m en from seducing married women services they are willing to offer and adj ust and thus b reaking u p fam ilies. T hey had a their prices accordingly. Prostitutes who special h oliday set aside on April 23rd as a work out of their own homes usually have a festival of the goddess of prostitutes, origi- regular cl ientele with whom they meet. nally for males and late r for fe males. These address books are sold to another Messalina, the insatiable wife of the Roman woman when the prostitute retires and the Emperor Claudius, kept a room at a bor- seller the n contacts all her clients and tells dello where she could retire and satisfy her them sh e would like to introduce them to a curiosity and lust by entertaining a multi- new person. One of these address books was tude of cliencs. sold in 197S for $40,000. The media usu- ally glamorizes the high priced call girl a nd Conversely, Theodora, an other Roman stigmatizes the street walker. The profession empress and an ex-prostitute herself, as a whole is wrought with hassles from decided to reform all h er sister prostitutes. cl ients, pimps, the pol ice, society, and She created a monastery for the rehabilita- rapists. Many people assu me that th is peril tion of SOO street-walkers. There they were is brought upon th e prostitute herself made to conform to strict religious disci- because of her morals. Priscilla Alexander, a pline, with the fatal consequ e nce of many feminist, disagrees. She states that the committing suicide by throwing themselves \"countries with the most restrict ive legal out windows while other captives wen t systems, including the United S tates and insane. H owever, despite her obvious failure man y cou ntries in South east Asia, have the

P R OSTITUT I ON 22 1 PUB I C DRESS I NG most problems with violence against prosti- sations in this respect, and when I make a tutes (and wom en perceived to be like pros- drawing of the type with which y ou are titutes), thefts associated with p rostituti on, fam iliar, say, a drawing representing a girl pimping (especially brutal pimping), and with bare arms and shoulders, and dressed only the involve m ent of ju veniles. Co nve rsely, in the flimsiest of undies, on the ice in the the countries with the least restrictive mea- ska1i11g rink, she always regards it as a joke, sures, includi ng the Netherlands, West for size naturally does not take seriously the German y, Sweden and Denmark, have the exaggerations in which my imagination revels. leas t prob le ms . N o co untry, h owever, is Such fantasies, accompanied by masturbation, totally safe for prostitutes. The stigma iso- have frequently come to me at times when lates the women, and the remaining laws sexual intercourse wit h my wife has been. still serve to perp etuate tha t st igma, rath er impossible for physiological reasons. These fan- th an t o dispel it and truly legitimize t h e tasies were confined to a single subject-imma- women who work as prostitutes\" (Sex W'ork, ture girls wearing the lightest clothes in w inter Writings by \\Klome11 in the S ex I ndustry, (Sexual Anomalies a nd Perversions, by \" Prostituti on: A D ifficult Issue for M agnus Hirschfeld, p. 569). Femi nists\" by P riscilla Alexander, Edited by Frederique D elacoste & Priscilla Alexander, Some people h ave masturbated by putting a p. 196). CAUT IO N: Prostituti on is illegal towel in the freezer and then laying it on in all U.S. states with the exception of some th eir genitals and others have used icicles, counties in Nevada. Prostitution is also legal ice packing or frozen food. O n e California in so me states in Australia and in H olland man has reported that on several occasions and German y. The client wh o requests a after swimming in the ocean for 30 minutes p rostitute (or any woman) who is inexperi- during the winter he would obtain an erec- enced or not trained in a specific type of tion that lasted two t o three hours. sexual activity faces the risk o f her not bei ng aware of the correct safety precautions. This Ex posure to intense cold c reates a sharp applies particularly to any time an object is sensation that is similar to o the r types of inserted into the anus, an activity where th e physical stimulus that produce tension. The skin may be broken, consumption of feces m ind c hanges its focus from intellectu al or other b ody secretions, serious bondage, pu rsuits to p hysical awa reness. Many S/ M electrical shock, oxygen deprivation, and players use cold contact to heighten aware- catheter play. ness of skin sensatio ns. T hey often alternate cold with heat; such as ice cubes and candle (See also BORDELLOS , GE ISHAS, HET- wax. AERAES, ILLEGAL SEX and SLAVES) (See also FETISHES, ICE, 1\\11\\STURBATION PSYCHROCISM (Psychrotemiginosity) and THALPOTENTIG INY) Psychrocism (psychro : cold , or freezin g; cism: act) refers to those who are aroused PUBIC DRE SSING (Pudendacure- femal e, Medocure-m ale) Pu b ic dressing by eith er be ing cold refers to a rtistic expression s of one's sexu- themselves o r by ali ty th ro ug h genital h air dying, shavin g, watching someone else waxi ng, body pai nt, glitter, or stickers. who is cold . People who dye their pubic h air prepare Hirschfeld relayed it by first bleaching it the personal confes- with the same creams sion of a m ale patient fo und in drug stores fo r who had a cold fetish: facial hair, adjusting the time requ ired fo r The thought and sight bleachi ng to th e ir own of chill:y dress or pictorial representations of it, n eed s . The bl eached i11duce in me considerable erotic pleasure. My p u bic hair is th en dyed wife naturally has no idea of my abnonnal sen- with ei ther regu lar hair

PUBIC DRESSING 222 PYROPHILIA dyes or with colored pastes that come in cation that I would be willing to wear the veil little pots. These bright colors are applied met with wide smiles of relief .. all sought at with toothbrushes. Most other methods of once to show me the proper way to wear the coloring leave residue of the dye on the skin elbays, an opaque black cape-like material or any fabric that comes in contact with it. which covers one from head to thigh, with a place to tuch your hands.. . .All this was topped T rimming, waxing, or shaving the genital with a lovely square of decorated black chiffon area is done by people who prefer not to lo cover my eniire head. I could see through have pubic hair exposed along the legs of this, ihough noi clearly... I was nothing more their b ikinis or g-strings. Some women trim than a tall, slim, black blob... Quite a costume the hair around their labia to match the for the 120- we ather of Saudi in July ... shorter length fo und higher o n th e mons IVomen are not allowed to go anywhere outside pubis. Complete removal of pubic hair is the wall unless accompanied by a man. I sometimes done to facilitate body painting balked at this control but was told, 'You are and application of stickers. much too precious to have to make your way alone. We see that you are always protected CAUTI ON: Shaving creates small cuts and cared for. No one will dare to bother or in the skin and makes it susceptible to infec- insult you' (Everyday Life in the Harem, by tions, including some sexually transmitted Babs Rule, pp. 28-9). diseases. Many feminists would feel that this social (See also BODY PAINT ING, PUB IC HA IR repression of women was abhorrent and SCULPTURING, RI NG ING, TATTOOS and lacked any advantage for women. The one TRICHOPHILIA) apparent advantage was that the veil, in some instances, provided anonymity for PUBIC HAIR SCULPTURING Pubic prostitutes or adulteresses. hair sculpturing is done b/permane ntly removing hair falling on the outside of the (See also HAREMS, NIDDAH and PRISHA) pattern a person has chosen. The most co mmon shapes used in sculpturing are PYGMALIONISM See AGALMATO- hearts and triangles. Shapes are more recog- nizable on people who have thick pubic hair. PHILIA Three methods used to accomplish per- PYGOPHILIA (Pygophilemania-kissing manent hair removal are electrolysis, ther- buttocks, Pygotripsis- rubbing buttocks) mo lysis, and b lend modalities whi ch over Pygophilia (pyge: buttocks; philia: attach- the period of one ment to) refers to those who are a roused by to two years will fondling, licking, or kissing of the buttock destroy all the hair area. Some are also aroused by rubbing follicles. AIJ are con- their buttocks against those of their parmer. sidered painful and can cost up to (See also ANAL SEX, COITUS INTERFER- $60.00 an hour. MORIS, CO ITUS A MAMILLA and FETISHES) (See also DEP ILA- PYROPHILIA (Incendi arism mania) T !ON and PUBIC Pyrophilia (pyros: fire, philia: attachment HAIR DRESSING) to) refers to those who are sexually aroused by fire. Fire was one o f man 's most signifi- P U RDAH Purdah (pardah: a veil) refers cant discoveries and has since been adapted to hiding the faces of women from stra ngers for use in energy, medicine, purification rit- and is practiced by some Hindus and uals, branding, torture, and sexual gratifica- Moslems. tion. Fire and hot liquids can cause serious injury or destruction. Babs Rule, the mother of a woman who married a Saudi Arabian man, wrote of her Today the practice that cau ses grea test first experience with purdah. co ncern is pyrophilia or p yroman ia. Pyromaniacs are defined according to stan- To them a woman with h er hair and face exposed is ta11ta111ount to an American woman strolling topless down M ain Street... My indi-

PYROPHILIA 223 P YRO PHILI A dards set forth in DSM-III-R psychological Hirschfeld wrote of a respectable gentleman tests. These describe \"deliberate firesetting in the 19th century who severely burned on more than on e occasion, ten sio n or himself by applying chem icals to his body affective arousal before the act, fascinati on for sexual p leasure. Today c he mical anal- with fire, pleasure or relief when setting gesic balms such as Vicks, Be n G ay, or fires, witnessing o r partici pating in their Tiger Balm are used to create a burning aftermath, not setting the fire for monetary sensation on the nipp les or gen itals. They gain, to conceal criminal activity, express may also be used o n a Q-tip an d inse rted vengeance or in response to a delusion.\" slightly into the tip of the urethra. Irri tants Most fireseners are male; however, a recent are also sold that are design ed specifically study involved 13 female delinquents. This for sex. An Asian aphrodisiac, Chinese Red study indicated t h a t unco n firmed sex ual Powder, causes burning of the penis and abuse was a common factor in most of their irritation of the vagina. The ing redients are histories. Saunders and Awad found that cinnamon, mustard, pepper, ginger, and \"there was a high rate of sexual problems: various herbs. There are several varieties of promiscuity, pros ti tutio n a nd questio n s these powders. CAUTION: The balm or about sexual orientation. This find ing sug- powder is tested before general application gests that female firesetters ha ve a history of by placing a small amount on the area sexual problems. However, it is not clear where it is to be used. A balm that causes whether or not there is a motivational con- irritation is diluted with Vaseline. nection between the two, namely that the firesetting behavior is an expression of, or is Males occasionally have the ir genita ls motivated by, sexual problems\" symbolically fried in o il. The oil is placed (\"Adolescent Female F iresetters,\" by in to a large cup and the genitals are lowered Elisabeth B. Saunders, EdD. and George A. into the oil for a few Awad, M.D. , The Canadian Journal of seconds. The sensa- Psychiat1y, Vol 36 N o. 6, pp. 401 -404). tion is simi lar to the heat of the water in a Some pyromaniacs, when setting build- hot tub and the oil is ings on fire, seem to feel e m powered and said not to burn the sexually aroused by having been the instru- sk in. The re ma ining ment of destruction. After se tting a fire, the oil is allowed to coo l perpetra tors often position themse lves on the genitals to where they can watch from a distance and serve as a lubricant for masturbate. Others have been found next to some sex acts. CAUTION: Vegetable short- the building where they seem to have gone ening h eated over 125 degrees Fahrenheit into an immediate nympholeptic orgasmic (u sing a candy thermometer) can cause state that left them unconscious (a similar burns. People with penile piercings do not phe no menon as experienced by some engage in this activity; they a re particularly necrophi les at grave sites) . CAUTION: su sceptible to injury beca use the metal Setting fire to buildings or other property is absorbs the heat and can burn the flesh. In illegal and can cause untold harm, including additi on, oi l can seep into the openin g of death, to innocent victims. the piercing and become almost impossible to remove. Other aspects of pyrophilia fall into the S/M arena, particularly when fire creates a The Japanese moxibustion medical ritual sense of danger or excitement. The S/M consists of gluing cone shaped maxis on to a pyrophile can feel empowered by enduring predetermined spot (usually on the back) its pain or co ntro lli ng its flame s. Sexual a nd lighting them. The patie nt endures as games include the use of chemicals, 'fr ying' the fire finally burns into their flesh leaving genital s in hot oi l, hot wax, okyu , peau circular scars, although some have d iscov- flambe, fire dancing, fire walking, cigarette ered that placing a thin slice of garlic or burns, throwing matches onto pubic hair, gi nger root between the moxi and skin and flagellation (tapping) \\.Vith torches. Dr. reduces this risk (\"Sca rs of Experience: The

PYROPHILIA 224 PYROPHILIA Art of M oxibustio n in Japan ese M edicine L ake.\" (\" Dancing w ith th e S p iritual and S oc iety,\" b y Margaret M . Loc k, Flames,\" by C. Rose and E. Sweet, QSM CulUtre, Medicine and Psychiauy 2 ( 1978) lecture, March 2 1, 199 1) CAUTION: Fire pp. 151 -175). Moxibustion has been mod i- d anc ing has its own precautions . Th e fied for sex play by u sing Tibetan incense; alcoho l (70% only) is left sitting in an open cutting it in to 1/4\" sections and gluing it to dish for a couple of hours to weaken its the skin wi th a spray adhesive. Several o f strength. The torch must be made without these are placed on th e person 's leg and lit glue, paint, air pockets, or excess fabric that at intervals so that the pain is continual. A would create a hotter flame. Excess alcohol mi l der form co n s is ts o f takin g a small is drain ed to reduce the risk of causing a burning incense stick and using it to touch fi re. All clothing a nd hair near skin a reas to the skin of the partner; this is more fright- be used are removed prior to play. Perfume ening t han pai n ful. One E aste rn re li gion ca nn ot be worn by either perso n . Areas uses a type of b urnin g ri tu al (cones are burned are moni tored fo r redness. A knowl- placed o n the naked scalp ) fo r e m otional edge o f first aid a nd fi re safety is required. self- healing. This recovery technique is also emulated by some in the S/M commun ity. Othe r types of fi re play involve using a This process requires the person to meditate cigarette or match to b urn individual body and chann el all their negative feelings and hairs wi th out touching the skin. M atches are though ts o nto th e spot that is b urning. used by som e to throw onto pubic hair. T he W hen th e e mber has burned ou t they visu- match ex tinguishes itself after scorching one alize brushing all these thoughts away with or two hairs. The match must be thrown th e ashe s. (\" Branding and Burning, \" by accurately so as not to land on ba re skin or Fakir Musafar, QSM lecture, November 18, bedding. Some use the side of a cigarette to 1989) run along a person 's fa ce, chest, or p enis. This does not burn but is frightening. CAU- Peau flainbe is practiced in several ways. T ION: Cigarettes are not used to burn the Some people rub alcoh ol directly onto the skin because they do not create clea n burns skin a nd light it, others make special torches and as a result easily become infected. (wood dowel, cotton ce nter, a Cole m an mantle, and cloth cover). These are soaked Firewalking is not co nsidered sex p lay in 70% alcohol, drain ed of excess alcohol, but is used very effectively fo r stimulation. and lit. The torch is the n either held under a The burning sen sati on caused by wa lking person 's outs tretch ed a rm , run alo ng th e across flaming embers lasts fo r abo ut two skin, or used to flagellate (ta p) the back or hours. Therefore, som e prefer to engage in legs. (\"Playing with Fi re,\" by Celeste, QSM sex just prior to the even t. Firewalks that lecture, September 15, 1990) take place at midnight in the woods offer t his o pportunity. P eople easily slip away T here is a female arti st in San Francisco fr om th e c ircl e of peop le dan c ing an d whose rou tine begins as she carries a bowl singing chants around the fire. Firewalking of flames onto a dark stage placing it on tl1e is being used in the U nited States as a fo rm floor where she does a dance ri tual around of p syc hological hea ling. P eop le's past the bowl of fire then perform s slow mystical traumas are reprogrammed b y a new fright- gyra tions in th e su bd ued light of the fire. ening event, however th is event is one they She then reaches into the bowl and removes have conquered, helpi ng them feel elated blue flam es that she ra ises in reverence and em powered. (Firewalk Retreat, b y toward the heavens. T he dance builds to a Catherine Grace , April 22, 1989) CAU- climax as she uses to rches to paint parts of TIO N: Fi rewa lking ca n cau se fir st or her legs, to rso and arms with this flame. second degree burns on the soles of the feet. T he dance culminates in a man ner reminis- cent of the ending scene in the ballet \" Swan (S ee also ELECTRI CAL SHOCK and SAFE SEX)

Q QUADOUSHKA The Quadoushka that his nose is near sexual teachings are part of the tradition of the American C h erokee Ind ia n s. Qua- her anus with his doushka seems similar to Eastern sex tantra eyes covered by her in that it emphasizes breathing techniques, gen itals. Th e object energy balance, and whole body orgasms. Quadoushka utilizes Cherokee ceremonies of queening is and ritual for exploring one's sexuality. A bondage o r breath knowledge of Eastern tantra, yoga, and control, not cun- chakras are recommended to enhance this nilingus. T he man training. There do not appear to be many books written specifically about Quadoshka; ma y wear s upple - Jtt however, classes and seminars are taught in the San Francisco area. mental restraints on the wrists a nd ankles. (See also BRADYCUBJA, KABAZZA and A slightly comparable American sex TANTRA) scene is where a stripper completely disrobes and stands over a sitting male with his head QUEENING The term q ueening refers to tilted back so that h e r genitals are only a the European practice of a dominant female couple of inches above his face . She stays in using a man's head as her throne. The woman si ts in one of several positions, this position moving her pelvis to the music either on the side of the man's h ead or so for about five minutes. The male is not per- mitted to touch her in any manner during this exhibition. (See also BONDAGE/THREE LEGGED BLOOMERS, CAT FlGHTING, OXYGEN REG- ULATION and WRESTLING) R RAPE Rape (rapere: to seize) is a term the victim, attack a stranger who resists, or used to denote coercion of a person to rape a woman in her home seem to be pros- engage in n onconsens ual sex. Statutory ecuted m ore often. The victims least able to rape applies to sex with minors wh ether it is convince a jury of rape are prostitutes, mar- consensual or not. ri ed wom en who charge thei r husbands, single women who are attacked by dates, Governments have used different types those who are attacked by someone they of punishment to discourage rapists. The meet in a bar, and those who do not sustain Assyrians permitted the fathe r of a virgin to serious physical injury. Society's vague and violate the wife of the rapist. The inconsistent definition of rape has resulted Babylonians punished both the rapist and in false convictions as well as false acquit- married victims by executing them, and the tals. Diana Scully, a sociologist who studied E nglish only punish ed the rapist if he convicted rapists, shows the diversity in refused to marry the female. The Persians w hat they believe co nstitutes rap e. One punished men caught in harems by having rap ist remarked that \"[r]ape is when a their male slaves rape them before castra- woman's life is in danger, without a doubt, tion. To accomplish this they hammered on or when sh e is beaten unconscious. \" At the a tent spike to force the anal sphincter open other end of the spectrum were comments (Perverse Crimes in History, pp. 202). by those who had changed their interpreta- tion after incarceration. \"To d o mi nate A clear understanding of this word is someone to the extent you impose you r will critical for many reason s. T here seems to be when they say 'no', to take without consent, an ambiguity between the definition and the violently or otherwise, if the victim is scared types of rape that are prosecuted. In gen- eral, men who use weapons, seriously injure

RA P E 226 RAPE into it\" (Understanding Sexual Violence, A rapist away would only delay or transfer the Study of Convicted Rapists, p. 87). evil acts; their answer is to find the person causing the criminal 's behavior. \"A diviner Rape does not appear to be found in all may ultimately determine that witchcraft is cultures. Peggy Sanday substantiates this in the root of th e problem and, fo r example, a study of tribal societies where she found direct the supplicant to purchase from a that rape was n onexistent or rare in 44 out sorcerer, omonyamasira, retaliative magic, or of 95 groups. She attributes rape as having emesira, designed to eliminate both the witch evolved when the group beca m e more and his witchcraft. If this, the last resort, dependent on men for su rvival than on fails to alleviate the affliction, it is under- female fertility (The Socio-Cultural Context stood that the witch 's magic, oborogi, is of of Rape, by Peggy Reeves Sanday, 1979). some especially resistant sort. Accord ingly, Scully added that other social factors seem the community waits to see who will die to encourage violence against women; such first, the victim or the victimizer.\" The as those \" related to cultural attitudes, the tribes then tolerate known rapists, as well as power relationship between women and other criminals, living among them. Levine, men, the social and economic status of who lived among this tribe, also noted that women relative to the m en of their group, rape, \"while treated as criminal beh avior by and the amount of other forms of violence the British, the Gusii p eople regarded as in the society\" (Understanding Sexual necessary for the preservation of kin-avoid- Violence, A Study of Convicted Rapists, p. ance, chinsoni, and the prevention of 48). amasangia, death following adultery\" (\"Crime or Affliction? Rape in an African Rape may be interpreted differently by Community,\" by Sarah L evine, Culture, different cultures. Among certain South Medicine and Psychiatry 4 (1980) pp. 151 - American tribes, women wear only orna- 165, D . Reidel P ublishing C o., Dordrecht, mental strings over their genitals. However, Holland and Boston, USA). they are extremely m odest a bout exposing their inner labia and vagina. They define Statistics show that up to 25% of hetero- rape as when a victim is dragged off, laid on sexual men adm it to using force to get the her back, legs spread for all the men to see sex they wan t. Many date rapists share her shame, and violently raped by all the common attitudes and behavior that may men in her tribe. This is the punishment for serve to alert women . Many disregard their some religious offen ses. However, a man w ishes, or show uncontrolled anger, have wh o catches a wom an traveling down a path unreaso nable prejudices (a signal of not and forcibly leads her into the woods for sex having compassion for oth ers). T hey may in a sitting position is not a rapist. The tribe also make references to other women as has as part of their social syste m a strong b eing weak or hysterical, and insist on belief in compassion that includes not only meeting in isolated areas. the need to provide for those who are hungry but also those in need of sex Diana Scully di scovered tha t, contrary to (Anxious Pleasures, by T homas Gregor, pp. popular opinion, the majority profile of vio- I 02-4). Therefore, here it seems that part of lent rapists did not include men who had the definiti on of rape hinges on whether it been beaten or molested as ch ildren; 7 1% of was done as a punishment or out of desire the acts were premeditated, the men tended and need. African Gusii tribesmen in Kenya to be less aggressive, less independent, most also differ in their interpretation of rape as a had religious affiliations, disliked their father crime. Their religious belief system teaches rather than their m other, and had consen- that a person who breaks taboos such as sual sexual relations two to seven times a rape against relatives is a victim of myste- week at the time of com mitting rape. In rious spirit forces. This person or his family addition Scully fo u nd that they had a higher is either assumed to have angered their dead ratio of physical violence against their lover ancestors, or they are the victims of the evil than the genera l public b u t lower than magic of envious neighbors. Locking a felons who did not rape; were traditional in

RAPE 227 RAPE their view that \"women need male protec- effect of rape on women is often deeply tion and that they should be more virtuous traumatic . They suffer from nightmares, than m en, for example, by not telling dirty may relocate, have difficultly in working or jokes;\" matched traditional rather than studying, or becoming intimate with another modern masculine role for themselves; were person. A woman who was dragged by the low in gen eral feelings of hostility toward hair up stairs by her abductor began shaving women (the study did show that the more her head to ensure that it would never occur traditional value they placed on women the again. Some victims become lesbian and more hostile feelings they had against others have had to be institutionalized. them); many believed that in general vio- Many rapists, on the other hand, seem to lence against women was a man's right; had suffer no emotional trauma or guilt from the consumed alcohol prior to attack; or used act itself. Others feel extreme remorse and rape for revenge or punishment against a even b eg for treatment that costs them their lover that angered or rejected them. If these sex drive. men think at all about what the victim feels they believe that after her initial resistan ce Advice about how women should react she enjoys the sex. when attacked varies according to the type of rapist. There are rapists who say they The street rapist is often motivated by a would let the woman free if she screamed period of stress or disagreement with a and physically resisted, others say it female partner or relative. He seems to wouldn 't help her, a nd a few say it would transfer his anger from the person wh o is make things worse. Therefore, although it th e so urce of the pain to an emo ti onall y provides no guarantee of safety, the odds non-threatening target. Anger arises from a seem to favor full r esistance. Many police feeling of helplessness. In order for the departments, martial arts clubs, and rapist to re-establish control he needs a women's groups offer basic classes in self target who holds no em otional power over d efense. him. Typically, convicted rapists are reported A date rapist often does n ot have this to be from a lower income group. A man prior trauma. H e m erely believes, a s do who has control of one's income uses that as most of his counterparts, that it is accept- hi s weapon; the man who is not able to able to use force on a wo man. He justifies seduce and has no control over a victim's his act by saying women are inferior, she in come uses physical force. A woman who was teasing him, or she had an immoral has no control over the victim's income and c haracter. Rape may even be more arousing no physical strength uses seduction. Society to him than consensual sex because society is tolerant of misuse of sexual power by the forbids it. affluent, harshest on the poor, and ignores the female. Some rapists have sex once and leave, others keep the woman captive until they The initial emotio nal response to homo- act out several scenarios, and a few may sexual rape is shock, humiliation, fear, and engage only in fetish behavior. Some anxiety. The victim may later become reclu- become sadists who get caught up in a sive and feel guilt followed by anger and euphoria caused by watching fear or pain in depression. Their trauma, as opposed to the victim and will often continue this until women, often includes confusion over their she expires. Unlike people who engage in sexual identity because of their natural S/M they do not lose enthusiasm when they physiological orgasmic response to anal or realize their partner is not aroused; nor do oral sex. Young men may become with- they have experience in how to keep this drawn, feel emotionally numb, avoid con- reaction from escalating. While many of tact sports, fear men, develop a quick these rapists do not ejaculate it is reasonable temper, low self-esteem, and assume that to ass ume that some of these do . (See they are effeminate. Parents can help reduce the risk of rape by educating their children ORGASM) while they are very young. Books, such as Alice Doesn't Babysit Anymore, are helpful. Often males, children, the mentally ill, deaf, and blind are targets of rape. The

RAPE 228 RINGING Another recent book, titled Broken RELICS (Thesauromania-arousal from Boys/Mending Men, R ecove1y from Childhood collecting articles belonging to women) A Sexual Abuse, by Stephen Grubman-Black, relic (relike: remains) refers to an object that was written for others wh o have been serves to remind one of the past. A relic can abused. be a body part or an object associated with a saint that is People sometimes unjustly accuse others kept and used in memorial of rape for personal reasons. These have services. Relics of loved ones been listed as \"assault during or after volun- were often used before pho- tary coitus, blackmail, jealousy, fear of preg- tographs were common. nancy or venereal disease, or revenge.\" So ldiers often carried such They also include claim s made by children things as shoe laces, rings, a because of \"an unwelcomed stepfather, bracelet of hair, feather, or avoiding parental punishment for returning garter. Men wore these in home beyond the curfew hour, and false their hats, on arm bands, or over their accusation by a known p rostitute for failure hearts, often pausing during the day to kiss to receive payment for h er services\" (\"False the object that once belonged to their lover. Other men, according to historical records Accusations of Rape,\" by J. H. MacDonald, q uoted by Havelock Ellis, wore these relics around their genitals. \"A captain told me Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, Vol. 7, that when they were rifling the dead bodies No. 5, May 1973, pp. 170-194). of the French gentlemen after the first inva- sion they found that many of them had their Arthur Schiff, a physician working at a mistresses' favors tied about their genito- Rape Treatment Center in Miami, wrote of ries.\" Ellis continues with the accounts of several such cases. In one a girl was \" jilted women who had their husband's genitals cut by her steady boyfriend for a new girl in the off upon their death and kept them in small neighborhood. When the new girl moved silver and gold caskets, and a man who kept shortly afterwards to a distant city, the boy the skull of his dead mistress on his desk. returned to his former girl friend. At a school dance, sh e seduced him and had Lust murderers often collect memorabilia sexual intercourse with him in the p lay- from their victims. These are sometimes ground. She reported that she had been used later during masturbation. raped. After several hours spent untangling the various threads, it was finally learned (See also CHARMS and LOVE POT IONS) that she had not been raped, but had given her consent. She had wanted 'to teach him a RHABDOPHILIA (Flagellation fetish) lesson' for abandoning her in favor of the Rha bdop hilia (rhabd os: a rod, ph ilia: new girl.\" Schiff also listed an 8 year old girl attachment to) refers to people who are who reported a false rape hoping to be taken aroused by being caned, or flagellated. T he from her home and custody given to her caning is often combined with humiliation grandparents, a 16 year old who afraid of or fear in a fantasy sce nario. In order fo r being pregnant invented a rape story to pro- pain or injury to produce the desired tect her reputation, and of a 41 year old euphoric effects it must be anticipated, news reporter who falsely claimed to have threatening, or part of a scene that includes been raped to get an inside story of how a person to whom they are sexually rape victi ms were handled inside the Rape attracted. Some people engage in self-flagel- Treatment Center (\"An Unusual Case of lation to produce a cathartic effect without a Pseudo Rape, \" by A.F. Schiff, M.D ., sexual partner. Journal of Forensic Sciences Vol 20, No. 4 , October 1975, pp. 637- 641 ). It is as inhu- (See also ALGOPHLLIA, BED OF NAILS and mane to falsely charge another of rape as it FLAGELLATION) is to rape. RINGING Ringing is a term used to (See also BIASTOPHILIA, DACRYPHILIA, describe permanent piercings. T hese are ILLEGAL SEX, LUST MURDER, SADISM and SEXUAL HARASSMENT)

RINGING 229 RINGING ornamented with jewelry and can be on any chooses to use discretion. If a piercing part of the body where the flesh protrudes: becomes infected it is recommended tha t ears, nose, nipples, penis, scrotum, labia, or the jewelry be replaced with wire filament navel. because it keeps the wound from closing and allows pus an escape route. People are Erotic piercings have been used for hun- individual as to the type of metal their body dreds of years by many diverse cultures: accepts or rejects. Roman soldiers, Victorian aristocrats, natives of Southeast Asia, and even Egyptian CLITORIS Clitoral piercings are royalty at one time wore navel rings. rare due to the initial pain and risk of severing essential nerves People are attracted to piercings for although one woman did report many reasons. It may be a commitment to a constant intense arousal from this leather lifestyle, purely aesthetic, practical type of piercing. C li toral hood for S/M play, to make a statement about (the equivalent of the male fore- one's sexuality, to increase sensitivity to skin) piercings are very attractive touch, or as a way to protest the shame or and if the ball of the ring hangs stigma society has placed on the genitals by over the clitoral area it can pro- enhancing them with jewelry. Today many vide extra stimulation. Europeans use genital piercings as a symbol of marriage. A gold ring on the genitals of a LABIA Labia rings do not create partner seems to convey more of a sexual an erotic sensation themselves. commitment than a ring on the finger. H owever, some women have Many in the San Francisco area think that hung strings or chains with only gays have pierced nipples. This mis- weights on the ends and gone conception may be due to the fact that dancing without underpants. The women do not walk down Castro Street top- swinging weights cause the lab ia to rub less. CAUTION: There are several factors against each other. The labia rings, if involved in ringing and only an experienced pierced symmetrically, can be used to pull person is recommended to perform this the labia apart for cunnilingus or can be tied procedure. The exact location of the together for a m ock infibulation. Women piercing can be critical and sterile tech- who have stretched the size of the piercing niques are necessary just as in temporary have been able to place a heart-shaped lock piercings. Anesthetics are made available by through both labia. some but not all piercers. Pain has not pre- vented many from having areas such as the NIPPLE N ipple rings were at nipples and glans penis pierced. Surgical one time worn by Roman cen- stainless steel, 14k gold, platinum, and nio- turions who used them as a bium are used for jewelry. People react dif- symbol of their courage and ferently to metals; some cannot tolerate the some used them to anchor the nickel content of stainless steel, or react corners of their capes. badly to copper in gold alloys. Substitution Victorian women wore nipple of other metals often clears up the problem. rings to increase the size of The needle is one size larger than the ring the ir nipples and make them or bar. A piercing may take anywhere from more noticeable. Today men two weeks to three months to heal and women wear them for depending on the area pierced. The labia ornamental purposes, S/M heals fast while nipples take longer . A new play, or to make a serious state- piercing has to be washed with surgical soap ment about their se xual it y. Diamond or salt water for about five da ys while studded gold rings and gold shi elds ar e rotating the jewelry. A piercing should avai lable at piercing salons and by mail always ha ve something in it to prevent it order. (\"Nipple Piercing,\" by Jim Ward, from closing. Fishing line is used because it QSM lecture, September 23, 1989) offers partial concealmen t when one

RINGIN G 230 RING I NG PENIS There are many the glans. Distinguished men may, in addition, wear a ring round the penis, which is cut from types of ri ngs that are the scales of the pangolin, and studded with blunt points (Sexual Life of Prirnit.ive People, worn through th e penis b y H . Fehlinger, pp. 107-8). and each offers a dif- T hese bars may be fur- ther ornamented. In the ferent benefit. Li so ut hern P hilippin es a The Prince Albert was ring is used that goes \"completely arou nd th e o rigin all y us ed by penis but held in p lace by Victori an men as a way a pin or bar rowel-shaped ... T h ese inserts are also to keep their penis pulled said to make intromission d ifficu lt. One fla t so as not to protrude report states that a person with the insert cannot deflower a woman, so servants, when wearing the tight ' without the inserts, must undertake this task\" (The Penis Inserts of Southeast Asia, b y pants that were p op ula r _ _.) •. ~'' Donald E. Brown, James W . Edwards, and Ruth P. Moore, p. 3). at that time. The men . . T he apad ravya is a bar placed through sl ipped a sash through the glans penis vertically, being inserted just above the corona and extending dow n the ring a nd anchored it along their inseam. through the fre nulum . The irregu lar movement during T his piercing is de signed so that the ring inter course causes some- what of a vibrating sensa- enters the urethra and comes out the bottom tion fo r the woman. of the fre nulum. It is claimed th at Prince The dydoe is a bar or Albert wore one to hold back the foreskin ~ring that pierces through on his uncircumcised penis, making it easier the up per a nd lower edge of the corona and is used to keep clean . This ring puts pressure ~to revive part of the sensa- aga ins t the fre nulu m a nd urethra during tion that is lost due to cir- penetration an d creates stronger sensations cumcision. fo r men and their partners. For this reason T he frenum ring serves a sim il ar purp ose. This it is r eco mmended by men who use co n- ring runs through the frenulum and either hangs doms. down to perhaps be tugged on during sex or is flipped The Ampallang was once found in over the glans and used to stimulate th e frenulum area and base o~ corona, or some ancient South East Asia, chiefly among the use it as a cock ring to sensitize the tip of the penis. Dayaks. It is a bar or rod th at pierces SCROTUM Pi erc ing the side of the through the glans horizontally an d above the scrotum is an ancient Arab tradition done at puberty to \"keep the testicles fro m ever urethra giving more of a feeling of firmness rising back into the body.\" The hafad a piercing is ornamental and some add expen- to the glans penis during pene tration. The sive jewels for enhancem ent. Another procedure for this ancient custom has been described as follows. At first the glans is made bloodless by pressing it between the two arms of a bent strip of bamboo. At each of these arms there are open- ings al the required position opposite each other, through which a sharp pointed copper pin is pressed after the glans has become less sensitive. Formerly a pointed bamboo chip was used for this purpose. The bamboo clamp is removed, and the pin, fastened by a cord, is kept in the opening until the canal has healed up. Later on the copper pin (oetang) is replaced by another one, generally of tin, which is worn constantly. Only during hard work or at exhausting enterprises is the metal pin replaced by a wooden one. Exceptionally brave men have the privilege, together with the chief, of boring a second canal, crossing the first, into

RINGING 231 RIT U AL SEX p iercing is the guiche, which is placed chasuble about the waist, which was lifted slightly beneath the posterior of the scrotum from time to time in complete exposure of along what looks like a seam running to the himself. The altar boys were nude and so anus. This ring is common in the South were some of the women worshipp ers. At a Pacific and is said to prolong and intensify certain part of the ceremony one of the orgasms when gently pulled upon. The cor- women offered herself to the priest, the rest rect placement is crucial for th e desired of the congregation following his example. effect. The sexual excitement created an atmo- sphere in which the worshippe rs felt them- Many people worry that a physician m ay selves lifted on high and saw their fondest be critical or refuse health care to someone hopes being fulfilled.\" Black Masses have who is wearing sexual jewelry. However, been staged in some European brothels for most are professional and will not let their the benefit of curious clients (Sex and Race personal opinions keep them from giving in the New World, by J.A. Rogers, p. 330). any patient adequate care. Airport security ala rm s are rarely set to th e sensitivity One of the most notorious sex rituals was needed to detect a few metal rings. (\"Male one practiced by a Christian sect that began Piercing, \" by Jim Ward, QSM lecture, in Russia during the late 18th century. T he November 4, 1989) Skopzis, who referred to themselves as the \" White Doves, \" believed that Jesus was sent (See also JEWELRY and PIERCING) to castrate men thereby making it impos- sible for th em to sin. However, he failed and RITUAL SEX Rituals are procedures or died as a martyr instead. Jesus was then ceremonies that are prescribed and carried replaced by their savior Szelivanov, who, out at specified times. \"The word ritual like Joseph Smith, wrote his own holy scrip- comes from rtA, Sanskrit for menses. tures called t h e \"Book of the Dove\" that Menses, literally month, is from the Latin, takes precedence over the Bible. directly translated into English to denote the Szevlivanov recommended a literal interpre- periods of the yearly calendar. The earliest tation of passages that spoke of ampu tating ri tuals were connected to the women's body parts that cause one to sin; therefore, monthly bleeding\" (The Once & Future because the original si n in their eyes was Goddess, by Elin or W. Gadon, p. 2). sex, it was only appropriate to castrate themselves. Szevlivanov castrated himself Religious rituals have included some very by baptism with a red-hot iron and con- unusual sex practices throughout history. vinced many others to be baptized in a si m- T he American Indian Hopi tribes observed ilar fashion. Female converts who could no a snake dance ritual where cross-dressing, longer be sexually satisfied by their hus- zoophili a, and switching partners were bands were allowed to engage in prostitu - co m mon. The Roman emperor H elio- ti on; the proceeds went into the c hurch 's gabalu s performed rituals to his god that treasury. Some of the male converts failed included exotic dan ces, dressing in the garb in their attempt at castration by fire and of a priestess, the slaughter and sacrifice of were relegated to a lower position of the numerous animals and humans, an d Lesser Seal. Soon orgies and sado- throwing the castrated me mbers of young masochism became part of religious ser- boys into a sacrificial fire. Rituals of the vices. T his was encouraged by those who May Games and Feast of Fools included had been su ccessful in castration because orgies, transvestism, and the slinging of they still retained sexual passion a nd were excrement. not only excited by watching others indulge but were able to obtain sexual release by Satanic Black Masses were celebrated as dance and sadomasochistic activities . a farce in direct opposition to religious rit- During these rituals a virgin was brought uals that were being forced on people. One into the orgy to be impregnated with the Black Mass was described in J.A. Roger's savior. writings. \" In the genuine Black Mass, the priest officiated at a regular altar with bread, wine, and missal. He was nude save for a

RIT UA L SEX 232 SACOFR ICOSI S She was then undressed and immersed in a tub Just as sex was often part of ritu als that of warm waler. That her p ain mighl be were associated with oth er aspects of our relieved, she was given an image of the Holy lives, rituals are used today in sex. One type Ghost to hold while the old women amputated o f ritual is used in training sex slaves. Lady her left breast. The bleeding virgin was then Tanith, a professional d ominatrix, describes placed upon an altar, and an almost inhuman its importance. \" The do mina n t is also orgy followed. The amputaied breast was expected to don a special costume and to hacked into iiny pieces and grabbed by the treat t he submissive in a highly ritualized worshippers to be eaten while siill warm ... manner. Enforci ng certain r itu als is also Almost invariably the \"God Mother\" was h elpful to a submissive in internalizing h is impregnated in the course of this orgy .. . On slavery. T he effect of ritual behavior on the the eighth day of the child's life, his left side human p syche is age-old and well-docu- was lanced by a finely pointed speai~ and the mented, arousing emotions that tend to be warm blood that flowed from the wound in the r eli gious in nature... Whe n a slave is p er- inf ant body was dntnk in the communion ser- forming a series of regular, required behav- vice. The body itself was dried and pounded iors, he is completely encapsu la ted in th e into a powder ... to be offered the worshippers context of the ritual. H e is entirely isolated on the first day of the Easter season (The from his 'normal' environment. H e literally Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg , pp. 259- loses himself and his sense of separate iden- 262). tity, submerging himself totally into his role. H e does n ot think; he performs...the ritual Rituals temporarily separate the participant begins the transition between 'normal' and from his normal identity, replacing h is inter- 'slave-Master/Mistress' mode\" (A Tangled pretation of events and response with pre- Web: The Art of Slave1y, A Training Manual scribed behavior. Ri tuals dictate behavior, for Mistresses, Masters and Slaves, Version contro l thoughts, e motion s, and when 1. 1, by Lady Tanith, p. 5). engaged in often can restrict the amount and clarity of information received. These (See also FERTILITY RITES, ORGIES, SAC- happen to be the four components neces- RIFICES, SAT AN WORSHIP, SEX MAGICK and sar y for any type of mind control as SLAVES) reported by Dr. Steve H assan, a former member of the M oonies (Combatting Cult ROBOTISM Sec ANDR OIDISM and COM- Mind Control, p. 59). PUTER SEX s LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH along with nympho mania, fetishes, hom o- Sacher-Masoch (1836-1 905) was an aristo- sexuality, and mastu rbation. cratic Austrian novelist who wro te sexual tales of men being dominated, h umiliated, Krafft-Ebing's decisio n to use the term and disciplined by beautiful wo men . His masochism wa s dis turbing to Sacher- book Venus in Furs gave him the most noto- M asoch who was only one of many through riety . hi story who wrote of this typ e of sexual proclivity. Sacher-M asoch courted many women and was able to persuade several to oblige ( See also DOM INANCE/SUBMISSI O N, him b y acting ou t his fantasies. The noto- H UMILIATION, MASOCHISM, PARAPHILIAS riety he received for his novels gained h im and MARQUIS DE SADE) the attention of Richard van Krafft-Ebing, a n eu rologist and psychologist, wh o decided SACOFRICOSIS Sacofricosis refers to to label his p opula r passion as a disease; the practice a few men have of cutting a hole in the bottom of their front pant pocket

SACOFRICOSIS 233 SA C R I FICES and then sticking their hand thro ugh to ( Perverse Crimes in H istory, by R.E. L. masturbate. This allows men to be able to Mast ers and Eduard Lea, p . 203). masturbate in public places with less ri sk of detection. The Aztecs fla yed the skin from a vic tim which a priest then wore duri ng the ensuing (Sec also DOCKING and EXHIBITIONISM) cerem onial. The victi m's remains were later served as the main course of their rel igio.us SACRIFICES (Sphagia, Thusiai) Sacri- feast. fice (sacer: sac red and facere: to make) is the act of making an object sacred, by T he female worshippers of the fire god offering it to a god. The term is also used to M oloch sacrificed their infants to bu ild pas- refer to the voluntary forfeiture of some- sion fo r lesbian orgies. Goldberg describes thing valuable. these rites. \"Thus women, too, came to se rve M o loch . T h ey had their priestesses, P eople m ake sacrifices in re lations hips who pros tituted themselves to the women for similar reason s as they used to d o in reli- worshippers . .. When the women came to gious worship. It may be done as a sign of offer their sacrifices, they cast into the reverence, sub mission, a tribute, atonem ent devouring belly of M oloch whatever there fo r sins, a price to purchase happiness, an was upon them or within their arms ... In exch ange of present p ain fo r futu re b liss, or the hea t of her ever-increasing passion, she a form of masochism. brought the greatest sacrifice a mother cou ld o ffer. It was then that Mo loch first Th e metho d o logy o f hum an sacri fice tasted th e fle sh a nd blood of the in fa nts varied according to c ul ture . C.W. Jung thrown within him by m oth e rs gone mad related a n example of a lege nd from the 5th with desire\" (The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. century of a city near Rome where maidens G oldberg, pp. 150-1 5 1) . It m ust be rem em- were taken to \" a ce rtain ca ve rn in whi ch be r ed that in fa nti cid e was a commo n could be seen a frightful and terrible dragon method of population control for ma ny cul- of marvelous size, a m echanical contrivance tures and the opportunity to sa nctify this act that brandished a sword in its m ou th a nd was welco med by m any. This civi lization had shining red jewels for eyes. Every year eventually encountered the problem of over- girls were consecrated and adorned with populati on and m odifi ed th ei r sacrificia l flowers, and then given to the dragon in sac- offerings accordingly. rifice. For, as they descended with their gifts , t hey unwittingly touched the step to Nom inal human and anim al sacrifice wh ich this devilish m echanism of a dragon exi sts today am o n g a few Satanic cults. was attac hed, an d were instan tl y pierced 1\\1ost of these a re individuals who attribute through wi th the sword tha t sprang out, so th eir lust for m urde r to their affiliation in a that in nocent blood was sh ed\" (The small cult. These people are responsible for Collected Works of C. G. Jung, (Bollingen an es tim ated 12 human deaths a year. An Series XX) 20 vo ls., 5, par. 574, quoted in example of a c ult sac rifice was fo und in a Rape a11d R iwal, p. 11 7). January 1986 Penzhouse article by Dr. Joel Norris and Jerry Allen Potter. They relayed M a les we re also sacrificed. In India the court testimony of a woman involved in fema le devotees o f Kali th e Goddess of a cult sacrifi ce in Massachusetts. \" \\Xfhile Death \" hunted men in packs. L ike thugs t elli ng the court abou t the killing, Murph y and assassins, their aim was to spring upon explained how the grou p had struc k the un wary traveler and sacrifice him to the Marsden in the head with rocks, cut off her Black M other of D estruction. T orture and fingers to remove her rings, stri pped her, slit sexual abuse were the usual preliminaries to her throat, and severed her head a nd kicked a death involving ge nital di sm emb erment, it around . Drew th e n had sex wi th the disembowelment, and decapitation. A d ecapitated bod y, and carved an X on the comm on method of to rm ent emp loyed b y victim's chest while sp eaking 'a strange lan- the singhistriyan (tiger women) was that of guage'. He then put his thumb in the dead slowly and persistently masturbating their M arsden's blood and made an X mark on victim to the point of sen seless ness\"

SACRIFICES 234 SAD ISM Murphy's forehead, telling her that she was N K activity may be the byproduct of increased now initiated into the group.\" sympathetic activation, or ii may be an adap- (See also FERTILITY RITES, FESTIVALS tive response in the face of possible physical and RITUAL SEX) insult. Although the nature of the cues remains to be determined, these daia do indicate that SADISM (T yr annism; Leptosadi sm- the environmental context in which a stressor is mild form of sadism, Mastix-female sadist applied may be an important determinant of and Sapphosadism-lesbian sadism) Sadism the immunological consequences of stress expo- is the name given to the sexual practices of sure. Stressor Associated Cues Influence those who derive pleasure from d ominating Immune Function, by J. Irwin, S. Livnat, and or inflicting emotional and physical pain on R . Ader, Queen 's Univers ity, Kingston, others. The word sadism was formulated Cana da, K 7 L 3N6 and U n iver s ity o f after the release of writings b y Marquis de Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., 14642 Sade to characterize that type of sexual cru- In sadism it appears that peo ple are elty. Unfortunately the term was extended capable of achievin g relief of free-floating to encompass consensual sex play between anxiety by transferring their figh t-flight-sex adults, thus causing muc h prejudice a nd respon se onto another person or object. For misunderstanding during the next two cen- instance, a man who is angry at a sp ouse is turies. able to humiliate, rape or mutilate another Consensual S/M and sadism are as dif- p erson and relieve their stress due to the ferent as normal sex co mpared to rape. signals of defeat in their victim. Th e fact Tru e sad is ts are not co n cerned with that the sadi st d oes not know or care for his wheth e r the v ictim has a pl eas urab le victim makes it easier for him to carry the response; people who p lay consensual S/M attack further than he normall y would. A are extremely concerned. p erson who does attack their lover may use Sadi stic tenden ci es are inh ere nt in even greater violence because a love object humans and animals alike. Sadism is linked creates a higher level of anxiety. P eop le who to our aggressive response in protecting reach these extremes of tension may lose ourselves and yet still preserving the group. their ability to think or b ehave rationally, Injuries are physical signals that alert us to their minds ma y become blank o r replay the resolution of a conflict or the surrender other incidents, and they may beat or muti- of an opponent. For instance, two dogs will late their partner until they regain a con- fight over a bone until one of them submits, sciou s state. D r. Seymour Antelman et. al. as evident by a vulnerable pose or visible have studied the results of repeated expo- wound. At this point both the victor and the sures to stress in animals and stated the fol- loser w ill experi ence e uphoria du e to t h e lowing: release of b- endorphin s. In addition, the E ven a single exposu re to a brief stressful victor will experience a sense of power and event- be it environmental or phannacolog- enhanced self-esteem. T here appears to be ical-can induce extremely persistent, cas- n ew eviden ce that the immun e system is cading sensitization to subsequent stressors or also stimulated when one is exposed to related stimuli which recall the mem01y of the others suffering. Drs. Irwin, Livnat, and original trauma (Antelman et al. 1980, 198 7, Ader address this in the following quote: 1988; Ante/man and Chiodo 1983; Ante/man Consistent with the earlier results, only those 1988). We have recently proposed that such animals exposed to the environment in which findings may be relevant to the development of animals were being shocked (No Shock With) syndromes such as delayed p ost-traumatic exhibited an increase in splenic NK [Natural stress disorder, bulimia and panic (A nte/man Killer] activity ... lt may be speculated that in 1988) . (Persis tent sensitization of clonidine- anticipation of such a threat, physiological · induced hypokinesia following one exposure to cha nges occur which would prepare the a stressor: possible relevance to panic disorder organism to respond to the environmental chal- and its treatment, by Seymour M . Antelman, lenge. Consequently, the enhancement noted in Steven Knopf, Donna Kocan, and David J.