ll quotes the
opinion of an experienced observer to the same effect
(_Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis_, Bd. i, p. 429).
Hufeland reported the case of a little girl of three who was
playing, seated on a stool, with a dog placed between her thighs
and locked against her. Seemingly excited by this contact the
animal attempted a sort of copulation, causing the genital parts
of the child to become inflamed. Bloch (_Op. cit._, p. 280, _et
seq._) discusses the same point; he does not consider that
animals will of their own motion sexually cohabit with women, but
that they may be easily trained to it. There can be no doubt that
dogs at all events are sometimes sexually excited by the presence
of women, perhaps especially during menstruation, and many women
are able to bear testimony to the embarrassing attentions they
have sometimes received from strange dogs. There can be no
difficulty in believing that, so far as _cunnilinctus_ is
concerned dogs would require no training. In a case recorded by
Moll (_Kontraere Sexualempfindung_, third edition, p. 560) a lady
states that this was done to her when a child, as also to other
children, by dogs who, she said, showed signs of sexual
excitement. In this case there was also sexual excitement thus
produced in the child, and after puberty mutual _cunnilinctus_
was practiced with girl friends. Guttceit (_Dreissig Jahre
Praxis_, Theil I, p. 310) remarks that some Russian officers who
were in the Turkish campaign of 1828 told him that from fear of
veneral infection in Wallachia they refrained from women and
often used female asses which appeared to show signs of sexual
pleasure.

A very large number of animals have been recorded as having been employed
in the gratification of sexual desire at some period or in some country,
by men and sometimes by women. Domestic animals are naturally those which
most frequently come into question, and there are few if any of these
which can altogether be excepted. The sow is one of the animals most
frequently abused in this manner.[51] Cases in which mares, cows, and
donkeys figure constantly occur, as well as goats and sheep. Dogs, cats,
and rabbits are heard of from time to time. Hens, ducks, and, especially
in China, geese, are not uncommonly employed. The Roman ladies were said
to have had an abnormal affection for snakes. The bear and