ine body.[31] It is probable that on the basis of this
entirely normal attraction more than one form of erotic symbolism is at
all events in part supported. Duehren and others have considered that the
aesthetic charm of the nates is one of the motives which prompt the desire
to inflict flagellation on women. In the same way--certainly in some and
probably in many cases--the sexual charm of the nates progressively
extends to the anal region, to the act of defecation, and finally to the
feces.

In a case of Krafft-Ebing's (_Op. cit._, p. 183) the subject,
when a child of 6, accidentally placed his hand in contact with
the nates of the little girl who sat next to him in school, and
experienced so great a pleasure in this contact that he
frequently repeated it; when he was 10 a nursery governess, to
gratify her own desires, placed his finger in her vagina; in
adult life he developed urolagnic tendencies.

In a case of Moll's the development of a youthful admiration for
the nates in a coprolagnic direction may be clearly traced. In
this case a young man, a merchant, in a good position, sought to
come in contact with women defecating; and with this object would
seek to conceal himself in closets; the excretal odor was
pleasurable to him, but was not essential to gratification, and
the sight of the nates was also exciting and at the same time not
essential to gratification; the act of defecation appears,
however, to have been regarded as essential. He never sought to
witness prostitutes in this situation; he was only attracted to
young, pretty and innocent women. The coprolagnia here, however,
had its source in a childish impression of admiration for the
nates. When 5 or 6 years old he crawled under the clothes of a
servant girl, his face coming in contact with her nates, an
impression that remained associated in his mind with pleasure.
Three or four years later he used to experience much pleasure
when a young girl cousin sat on his face; thus was strengthened
an association which developed naturally into coprolagnia. (Moll,
_Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis_, bd. i, p. 837.)

It is scarcely necessary to remark that an admiration for the
nates, even when reaching a fetichistic degree, by no means
necessarily involves, even after many years, any attraction to
the excreta. A correspondent for whom th