SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR or TH AMERICAN FEMALE. B) The Same Authar CASTE AND CLASS IN INDIA ABORIGINES, SO-CALLED, AND THEIR FUTURE CULTURE AND SOCIETY ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION INDIAN COSTUME RACE RELATIONS IN NEGRO AFRICA INDIAN SADHUS FAMILY AND KIN IN INDO-EUROPEAN CULTURE Priated by N 8, Chinwaly Manager at 8 tush Yadsa Press (Props, Leaders Press Private Lid.) Mazgaon Rombay 10 and publshed by Z.M. Karl, Current Book Hous Bombay tPREFACE AS a post-graduate teacher of Sociology in the University of Bombay for the last thirty-two years I had occasions to lecture for fifteen alternate years on marriage and family, in the course of which I had collected and communicated good deal of data on female behaviour and si ex to my students. The reaction of Indian readers to Dr. Kinsey's book, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female, Prompted me to consolidate and record my findings on the and this I started to do a couple of years ago. is this brochure which I have great Pleasure in p; to the readers. ~ subject, Its result ne resenting University Department of Sociology, G. S. Guurys 12-8-56, '“We have to remember that if the sexual act were not delightful it could not be the basis of reproduc- tion §=And af it were not capable of becoming sacred 1t would not be the basis of the family and hence of the development of society and culture An examination of these relationships in the hight of genetics provides the means, the only means, of reconciling the :nterests of the an- dividual with that of the community im what 1s the fundamental problem for the propagation of our race and the survival of our society ”” —C D DARLINGTON, The Facts of Life, p 345Chapter i aw Wv VI CONTENTS Page General, Female Orgasin I Marriage and Sexual Behaviour 24 Causes of Extra Marttal Coxtus 48 Pre-Morual Heterosexual Behaviour 71 Masturbation 93 Concluding 137i . GENERAL ; FEMALE ORGASM The morals of a society are in the keeping of sts women. This is particularly true of sex morals Sexnal behaviour ol fernales reflects not only the current sexual morals of 4 society but also suggests their future trends. Sexual behaviour of Amencan females has been studied for over a quarter of a century by American gynaecologists, sexo- losis and somologsts The vanety of matenai presented by this scientific and farrly comprehensive study 1s very worthy of a eritical resume at this juncture when the largest of these studies, Sexual Behastour in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey and others has evoked general] interest mm the subject. > Whatever was the popular view about female sexuabty current mm the Western socety m the recent past, the present-day idea of sex prevatent in Amencan females— girls, adult women, married or unmarned—is that its pivotal point 2s orgasm = In the vestigations from which material for thts paper 1s collected, female orgasm not only occupies a significant place but does so in a progressively promment manntr so that am the latest investigation, that of Kinsey and others, everything about female sex- uality from gulhood to old age centres round it. It JS necessary to examine the concept of female orgasm before an interpretative analysis of the data on female sexuality elaborately presented in the mvestigations 1s attempted Kraff-Ebing, the Viennese professor of Psycluatry and Neurology who was perhaps the earliest of modern2. SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE AMERICAN FEMALC sexologists and whose Psychopathia Sexuals, published before the beginning of the 20th century, has been con- sidered a standard book on the subject for nearly half a century, descnbing the sexual act did not use the term orgasm but wrote in terms of a pleasurable feeling and pleasurable sensation. Contrasting the male and the fe- male reaction to the sexual act, he points out that the pleasurable sensation occurs earlier in the male than in the female and the pleasurable feeling in the female coming on more slowly outlasts the male act of ejaculation. In his opinion the distinctive event 10 coitus is ejaculation. Even in the female “ at the height of sexual and pleasurable excitement, a reflex movement occurs. It is induced by stimulation of the sensory genital nerves and consists of a peristaltic movement... . , which presses out the mucus secretions of the tubes and uterus."(2) A. Forel, the Swiss psychiatnst, who published his famous book The Sexual Question in 1906, uses the “expression venereal orgasm to designate the sensations accompanying the sexual act. The voluptuous sensations, he says, chiefly anse in the glans penis and chtoris, spread to the whole nervous system and terminate in the male by the ejaculation of semen. The voluptuous sensations he calls’ the venereal orgasm. He describes the female reaction 10 the sexual act by porting out that “at the ‘maximum point of voluptuous fecling the woman ex- pericates something analogous to the venersal orgasm of man.” Further, according to tum the end of the orgasm in both the male and the female 1s “followed +by an agreeable relaxation which invites slecp.""{*) The American work on the subject may be said to begin about 1920 when Dr, Katharine B. Davis beg2n her study of the sex life of some American women. Some of herGENERAL . FEMALE ORGASM 3 contributions appeared mm journals from 1922 onwards The book embodying the results of her researches and entitled Factors mn the Sex Life of Twenty To Hundred Women was published mn 1929 She used the word orgasm to evoke cesta information from her subjects but frankly“ notes that the word was “unfambhar to many” And she defines orgasm as ‘a convulsive contraction of the muscles of the intertor sex organs, followed by definite relaxation "(3) Dr G V Hamilton, a psychatnst, began his mveshgations in 1924 and pubbshed the result of Ins study in the book Research in Marriage mm 1929 In the information card that he suppled to lus subjects the word orgasm 1s explained In the explanation it 1s stated that orgasm designates “the spasmodhic, highly pleasur- able feeling wath which the sey act ends for both men and women’? Further explanation draws attention to the fact that in common male parlance the term used for that part of the sex act which 1s called orgasm in the en quiry 1s “going off” It was further explained that the only difference between male and female in the matter of orgasm was that whereas men discharged semen women did not From the comments that be has offered on tus Tables it 1s clear that ‘a non-climactic merease of sex excitement ” during the sexual act has to be distinguished from orgasm , and that some of his subjects were not able to realize the difference between the two Here he elabor- ates a defimtion of orgasm which rt 1s necessary to quote in fall It runs thus “ An orgasm is an abruptly appear- ang, fully releasing and quickly terminating chmax s hich normally occurs m the sex act It is not to be confused with the more or less steadily increasing excitement and pleasure which a sexually excitable woman who 1s ine capable of the orgasm expenences dunng the sex act, but which entirely lacks orgasmic explosiveness of onset ' (4)4 SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE AMERICAN FEMALE The study of a thousand marnages made by the vell- known gynaecologist, R. L. Dickinson, was published in 1932 as A Thousand Marriages with a commending fore- word by Havelock Elis Dr Dickinson speaks of male orgasm as “the traditional end of tntromussion” He “points out that many people refer to orgasm as ‘It’ Hus- bands know their orgasm but some of them even when they have been marned for years do not know whether their wives have st But some wives said that they did not know what an orgasm was He assures hus readers that orgasm is one of those sexual phenomena about which “we rarely know what exactly we are deakhng with”, and “to define orgasm as the physiological peak of the curve of sexual excitement gives no evidence of its quality ”” Yet when he comes to deal with his material he 1 prepared to descnbe the information obtamned about orgasm as “precise accounts of orgasm” Speaking of “not orgasm”, he asks the question * what does the wife have when she does not have orgasm? (*) Later he analyces cortus into ** three structural elements’ which are “length: of intromussion ”, “orgasm in the wife’ and “the total satisfaction which 15 parallel with or even in spite of this framework’ When coitus 1s stated to be an index to marnage’’ the clue 15 provided by the third of the Structural elements mentioned above (*) In the Encyclopaedia of Sexual Knowledge(") edited by Dr Norman Hare, female climax in the sexual act or ~ orgasm 1s described in such a manner that we can speak of it as having two components , rhythmic aud spasmodic xagnal contractions are the first and excitement the second component The symptoms of this excitement witch are said to be common to both the male and the female orgasm are “ aceelerated heart beats and pulse, mse in temperature