NOTES
“Rarely has man”: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, and Paul H. Gebhard, Concepts of Normality and Abnormality in Sexual Behavior (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1949), 16.
1. WE’RE ALL PERVERTS
In his 1956 play: Jean Genet, The Balcony (1956; New York: Grove Press, 1994).
“When it’s over”: Ibid., 35.
“I consider nothing”: Publius Terentius Afer [Terence], “Heauton Timorumenos” [The Self-Tormentor], in Comoediae: Andria, Heauton Timorumenos, Eunuchus, Phormio, Hecyra, Adelphoe, ed. Robert Kauer and Wallace M. Lindsay (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926), 25.
the British lexicographer: Thomas Blount, Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language Now in Our Refined English Tongue with Etymologies, Definitions, and Historical Observations on the Same (1656; Ann Arbor, Mich.: EEBO Editions, ProQuest, 2010).
an earlier form: Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, rev. ed., trans. Victor Watts (524; London: Penguin Classics, 2000).
Dawkins encourages his fellow: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Great Bantam Press, 2008).
I’ve penned my own: Jesse Bering, The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011).
But of all these: Jon Jureidini, “Perversion: Erotic Form of Hatred or Exciting Avoidance of Reality?,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 29 (2001): 195–211.
in the work of the Victorian-era scholar: Havelock Ellis and John A. Symonds, Sexual Inversion (London: Wilson Macmillan, 1897).
chided the woman: Phyllis Grosskurth, Havelock Ellis: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1980).
“It was never to me vulgar”: Havelock Ellis, My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), 84.
“[It’s] not extremely uncommon”: Ibid.
“As there was between David”: Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: First Vintage Books, 1988), 463.
In a scathing review: William Noyes, “Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühl,” Psychological Review 4, no. 4 (1897): 447.
“In this way, which”: Mervin Glasser, “Identification and Its Vicissitudes as Observed in the Perversions,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 67 (1986): 14.
citing other nonmonogamous species: Christopher Ryan and Cecilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (New York: Harper, 2010).
As the primatologist: Frans de Waal, “Sociosexual Behavior Used for Tension Regulation in All Age and Sex Combinations Among Bonobos,” Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions (1990): 378–93.
“mere breath on the air”: Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit, and Three Other Plays (1948; New York: Random House, 1989), 43.
“white bear effect”: Daniel Wegner, White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control (New York: Viking, 1989).
negative stereotypes can: Robert Kurzban and Mark Leary, “Evolutionary Origins of Stigmatization: The Functions of Social Exclusion,” Psychological Bulletin 127, no. 2 (2001): 187–208.
half of all “farm-bred”: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1948).
Just as it’s impossible: Christopher M. Earls and Martin L. Lalumière, “A Case Study of Preferential Bestiality,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 38, no. 4 (2009).
But the hysteria over: Robert F. Oaks, “‘Things Fearful to Name’: Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Journal of Social History 12, no. 2 (1978).
“butt one eye for use”: Ibid., 275.
“a faire & white skinne & head”: Ibid., 276.
“Immedyatly there appeared a working of lust”: Ibid.
highlighted by the case: Edward Payson Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906; Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2009).
many people of European: Fernando L. Mendez, Joseph C. Watkins, and Michael F. Hammer, “Neandertal Origin of Genetic Variation at the Cluster of OAS Immunity Genes,” Molecular Biology and Evolution, published online January 12, 2013.
“In all the criminal law”: Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, and Gebhard, Concepts of Normality and Abnormality in Sexual Behavior, 12.
Back in 2001: Jonathan Haidt, “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment,” Psychological Review 108, no. 4 (2001): 814–34.
“A man belongs to”: Roberto Gutierrez and Roger Giner-Sorolla, “Anger, Disgust, and Presumption of Harm as Reactions to Taboo-Breaking Behaviors,” Emotion 7, no. 4 (2007): 868.
“My brother is my boyfriend”: Thomas Rodgers, “Gay Porn’s Most Shocking Taboo,” Salon, www.salon.com/2010/05/21/twincest/.
2. DAMN DIRTY APES
“The butting of his haunches”: D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928; New York: Penguin, 2006), 171.
“In a small but not”: Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (online-ebooks.info, 2004), 5:12.
put the idea: A. James Giannini et al., “Sexualization of the Female Foot as a Response to Sexually Transmitted Epidemics: A Preliminary Study,” Psychological Reports 83, no. 2 (1998): 491–98.
region can play host: Roy Levin, “Smells and Tastes—Their Putative Influence on Sexual Activity in Humans,” Sexual and Relationship Therapy 19, no. 4 (2004): 451–62.
DNA sequencing reveals: Guillaume Bourque, Pavel A. Pevzner, and Glenn Tesler, “Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals: Lessons from Human, Mouse, and Rat Genomes,” Genome Research 14, no. 4 (2004): 507–16.
If you take a healthy: Paul C. Koch and Roger H. Peters, “Suppression of Adult Copulatory Behaviors Following LiCl-Induced Aversive Contingencies in Juvenile Male Rats,” Developmental Psychobiology 20 (1987): 603–11.
Sex is so corporeal: Jamie L. Goldenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon, “Fleeing the Body: A Terror Management Perspective on the Problem of Human Corporeality,” Personality and Social Psychology Review 4, no. 3 (2000): 200–218.
“our libido thrives on”: Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (1912; London: Hogarth Press, 1957), 187.
“in its strength enjoys”: Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Standard Edition (1905; London: Hogarth Press, 1953), 152.
willing to taste: Levin, “Smells and Tastes.”
The psychologists behind: Richard J. Stevenson, Trevor I. Case, and Megan J. Oaten, “Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-sex-related Disgust Cues,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 40, no. 1 (2011): 79–85.
“If your personal identity”: Free Republic, www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=88214&Page=3.
“Homosexuals should never”: Free Republic, http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-chat/2917142/posts.
“Just look at these guys!”: Ernst Hiemer, Der Giftpilz: Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt. (Nürnberg, 1938).
how the trick: Yoel Inbar, David Pizarro, and Paul Bloom, “Disgusting Smells Cause Decreased Liking of Gay Men,” Emotion 12, no. 1 (2012): 23–27.
express an “affectionate distaste”: Levin, “Smells and Tastes.”
“Girl Scent is a new”: Ibid., 454.
“There does not appear to be”: Ibid., 458.
When these MHC: Claus Wedekind, Thomas Seebeck, Florence Bettens, and Alexander J. Paepke, “MHC-Dependent Mate Preferences in Humans,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B: Biological Sciences 260, no. 1359 (1995): 245–49.
The overall effect: Ilene L. Bernstein and Mary M. Webster, “Learned Taste Aversions in Humans,” Physiology and Behavior 25, no. 3 (1980): 363–66.
unhappily gay male: Barry M. Maletzky and Frederick S. George, “The Treatment of Homosexuality by ‘Assisted’ Covert Sensitization,” Behaviour Research and Therapy 11, no. 4 (1973): 655–57.
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“need to ‘lower the guard’”: Stevenson, Case, and Oaten, “Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-sex-related Disgust Cues,” 84.
rate the likelihood: Hart Blanton and Meg Gerrard, “Effect of Sexual Motivation on Men’s Risk Perception for Sexually Transmitted Disease: There Must Be 50 Ways to Justify a Lover,” Health Psychology 16, no. 4 (1997): 374.
“His body erect”: Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (1928; San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987), 77.
“Now that his balls”: Ibid., 78.
Nearly a century: Dan Ariely and George Loewenstein, “The Heat of the Moment: The Effect of Sexual Arousal on Sexual Decision Making,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 19, no. 2 (2006): 87–98.
“a missing tooth”: Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934; New Orleans: Quaint Press Books, 2012), 125.
study by the anthropologist: Daniel M. T. Fessler and C. David Navarrete, “Domain-Specific Variation in Disgust Sensitivity Across the Menstrual Cycle,” Evolution and Human Behavior 24, no. 6 (2003): 406–17.
Seventy percent of: Nichole Fairbrother and S. Rachman, “Feelings of Mental Pollution Subsequent to Sexual Assault,” Behaviour Research and Therapy 42, no. 2 (2004): 173–89.
two groups of female: Nichole Fairbrother, Sarah J. Newth, and S. Rachman, “Mental Pollution: Feelings of Dirtiness Without Physical Contact,” Behaviour Research and Therapy 43, no. 1 (2005): 121–30.
“I could stand and stare”: G. B. Rahm, B. Renck, and K. C. Ringsberg, “‘Disgust, Disgust Beyond Description’—Shame Cues to Detect Shame in Disguise, in Interviews with Women Who Were Sexually Abused During Childhood,” Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13, no. 1 (2006): 105.
measurable physical distance: John B. Pryor, Glenn D. Reeder, Christopher Yeadon, and Matthew Hesson-McInnis, “A Dual-Process Model of Reactions to Perceived Stigma,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 87, no. 4 (2004): 436.
Suicide rates skyrocket: Shanta R. Dube et al., “Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Gender of Victim,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 28, no. 5 (2005): 430–38.
A study by: George A. Bonanno et al., “When the Face Reveals What Words Do Not: Facial Expressions of Emotion, Smiling, and the Willingness to Disclose Childhood Sexual Abuse,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83, no. 1 (2002): 94–110.
“By the age of”: Gilbert Herdt and Martha McClintock, “The Magical Age of 10,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 29, no. 6 (2000): 596.
case of a Pennsylvania man: Times Leader, http://archives.timesleader.com/2012_5/2012_02_08_Man_who_tainted_co_workers_rsquo_yogurt_gets_2_years_in_prison_-news.html.
3. SISTER NYMPH AND BROTHER SATYR
“People in general”: Ogai Mori, Vita Sexualis, trans. Sanford Goldstein (1946; North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle, 2001), 151.
“It’s the abundance”: German E. Berrios, “Classic Text No. 66: ‘Madness from the Womb,’” History of Psychiatry 17, no. 2 (2006): 231.
“From the same seminal”: Ibid.
“openly before all the world”: Ibid., 232.
“The genital parts”: Ibid., 234.
The feminist sociologist: Carol Groneman, “Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality,” Signs 19, no. 2 (1994): 337–67.
a twenty-six-year-old doctor: Ibid.
“If she continued”: Ibid., 338.
the most infamous: Ibid.
“While I was praying”: Ibid., 358.
“as soon as I”: Ibid., 357.
an improbable name: John Studd and Anneliese Schwenkhagen, “The Historical Response to Female Sexuality,” Maturitas 63, no. 2 (2009): 107–11.
She “found herself”: Albert Ellis and Edward Sagarin, Nymphomania: A Study of the Oversexed Woman (New York: Gramercy, 1964), 61.
“She wanted the whole”: Ibid., 62.
“Several homosexual-nymphomaniacal”: Ibid., 74.
“I told Gail”: Ibid., 78.
“If she wanted to try”: Ibid.
“He was doing the right”: Ibid., 80.
“Boys, are you guilty”: John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young (1887; Project Gutenberg, 2006), www.gutenberg.org/files/19924/19924-h/19924-h.htm.
“[Circumcision] should be performed”: Ibid.
“Such a victim”: Ibid.
“the scourge of the human”: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, “G. Stanley Hall’s Adolescence: Brilliance and Nonsense,” History of Psychology 9, no. 3 (2006): 192.
Fast-forward to modern: Global Health Europe, http://globalhealtheurope.org.
There’s one notable: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: With Special Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct (Google eBook, 1886).
“he could no longer”: Ibid., 52.
“He said that he often suffered”: Ibid., 51.
For a very long time: Rory C. Reid, Bruce N. Carpenter, and Thad Q. Lloyd, “Assessing Psychological Symptom Patterns of Patients Seeking Help for Hypersexual Behavior,” Sexual and Relationship Therapy 24, no. 1 (2009): 47–63.
“Satyrs display more”: Franklin S. Klaf, Satyriasis: A Study of Male Nymphomania (New York: Lancer Books, 1966), 93.
“Successful encounters led”: Wayne A. Myers, “Addictive Sexual Behavior,” American Journal of Psychotherapy (1995): 476.
“excessive expressions”: Martin P. Kafka, “The Paraphilia-Related Disorders: A Proposal for a Unified Classification of Nonparaphilic Hypersexuality Disorders,” Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention 8, nos. 3–4 (2001): 231.
“which appropriately can”: Charles Moser, “Hypersexual Disorder: Just More Muddled Thinking,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 40, no. 2 (2011): 228.
“Cultivating whatever”: Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977), 20.
Some of the best: Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
advent of the Internet: Al Cooper, “Sexuality and the Internet: Surfing into the New Millennium,” CyberPsychology and Behavior 1, no. 2 (1998): 187–93.
a set of statistics: United Families International, http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/14-shocking-pornography-statistics/.
“The work of the penis”: Barry S. Hewlett and Bonnie L. Hewlett, “Sex and Searching for Children Among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of Central Africa,” African Study Monographs 31, no. 3 (2010): 112.
Unmarried women: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, and Paul H. Gebhard, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953).
In a 2006 survey: Niklas Långström and R. Karl Hanson, “High Rates of Sexual Behavior in the General Population: Correlates and Predictors,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 35, no. 1 (2006): 37–52.
“She expired on”: Subramanian Senthilkumaran et al., “Hypersexuality in a 28-Year-Old Woman with Rabies,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 40, no. 6 (2011): 1327–28.
condition has likely: Ralph Lilly, Jeffrey L. Cummings, D. Frank Benson, and Michael Frankel, “The Human Klüver-Bucy Syndrome,” Neurology 33, no. 9 (1983): 1141–45.
Since then, Klüver-Bucy syndrome: Julie Devinsky, Oliver Sacks, and Orrin Devinsky, “Klüver–Bucy Syndrome, Hypersexuality, and the Law,” Neurocase 16, no. 2 (2010): 140–45.
“the overlying skin”: Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, 51.
4. CUPID THE PSYCHOPATH
“Winged Cupid, rash”: Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass, trans. William Adlington, http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_cupidandpsyche.htm.
“Who flies with”: Ibid.
“I pray thee”: Ibid.
“Variatio delectat!”: Wilhelm Stekel, Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomena of Fetishism in Relation to Sex, trans. S. Parker (1930; New York: Liveright, 1971), 169.
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“pretty young girl”: Ibid., 143.
“The sight, image”: Ibid., 145.
We know they date: Ibid.
a male phenomenon: James M. Cantor, Ray Blanchard, and Howard E. Barbaree, “Sexual Disorders,” in Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, 2nd ed., ed. Paul H. Blaney and Theodore Millon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 527–48.
newborn male rat: Thomas J. Fillion and Elliot M. Blass, “Infantile Experience with Suckling Odors Determines Adult Sexual Behavior in Male Rats,” Science 231, no. 4739 (1986): 729–31.
goats were raised: Keith Kendrick et al., “Sex Differences in the Influence of Mothers on the Sociosexual Preferences of Their Offspring,” Hormones and Behavior 40, no. 2 (2001): 322–38.
a chimp raised: Maurice Temerlin, Lucy: Growing Up Human (Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1975).
The psychologist James Cantor: Cantor, Blanchard, and Barbaree, “Sexual Disorders.”
Freund argued: Kurt Freund, “Courtship Disorder: Is This Hypothesis Valid?,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 528, no. 1 (1988): 172–82.
“phase of eye-talk”: John Money, “Paraphilias: Phenomenology and Classification,” American Journal of Psychotherapy 38, no. 2 (1984): 174.
“push its way onto”: Ibid.
purchase clothes: Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales, “Positive Consumer Contagion: Responses to Attractive Others in a Retail Context,” Journal of Marketing Research 45, no. 6 (2008): 690–701.
The psychotherapist: Amy Marsh, “Love Among the Objectum Sexuals,” Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality 13 (2010), www.ejhs.org/volume13/ObjSexuals.htm.
for a documentary: BBC, Married to the Eiffel Tower (Blink Films, 2008), www.youtube.com/watch?v=POTA5aZxbQA.
“Well, Libby is always”: Marsh, “Love Among the Objectum Sexuals.”
“I’m kind of a heavyset”: Ibid.
“I press a thousand”: Arthur Scherr, “Voltaire’s ‘Candide’: A Tale of Women’s Equality,” Midwest Quarterly 34, no. 3 (1993), www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-142613_ITM.
“Whenever a lovely”: Stekel, Sexual Aberrations, 171.
“He liked especially”: Ibid., 170.
“No power in the world”: Ibid.
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