e psychological symbolisms of scatalogic fetichism.

It is worthy of note, as an indication that such phenomena are
scarcely abnormal, that a urinary symbolism, and even a strictly
sexual fetichism, are normal among many animals.

The most familiar example of this kind is furnished by the dog,
who is sexually excited in this manner by traces of the bitch and
himself takes every opportunity of making his own path
recognizable. "This custom," Espinas remarks (_Des Societes
Animales_, p. 228), "has no other aim than to spread along the
road recognizable traces of their presence for the benefit of
individuals of the other sex, the odor of these traces doubtless
causing excitement."

It is noteworthy, also, that in animals as well as in man, sexual
excitement may manifest itself in the bladder. Thus Daumas states
(_Chevaux de Sahara_, p. 49) that if the mare urinates when she
hears the stallion neigh it is a sign that she is ready for
connection.

It is in masochism, or passive algolagnia, that we may most frequently
find scatalogic symbolism in its fully developed form. The man whose
predominant impulse is to subjugate himself to his mistress and to receive
at her hands the utmost humiliation, frequently finds the climax of his
gratification in being urinated on by her, whether in actual fact or only
in imagination.

In many such cases, however, it is evident that we have a mixed
phenomenon; the symbolism is double. The act becomes desirable because it
is the outward and visible sign of an inwardly experienced abject slavery
to an adored person. But it is also desirable because of intimately sexual
associations in the act itself, as a symbolical detumescence, a simulacrum
of the sexual act, and one which proceeds from the sexual focus itself.

Krafft-Ebing records various cases of masochism in which the
emission of urine on to the body or into the mouth formed the
climax of sexual gratification, as, for instance (_Psychopathia
Sexualis_, English translation, p. 183) in the case of a Russian
official who as a boy had fancies of being bound between the
thighs of a woman, compelled to sleep beneath her nates and to
drink her urine, and in later life experienced the greatest
excitement when practicing the last part of this early
imagination.

In another case, recorded by Krafft-Ebing and by him termed
"ideal maso