He also mentions creatures who have gloated over the
odors of the blood and excretions from the bodies of women, and
gives instances of fetichism of persons who have been arrested in
the streets of Paris for clipping the long hair from young girls.
There are also on record instances of homosexual fetichism, a
type of disgusting inversion of the sexual instinct, which,
however, it is not in the province of this work to discuss.
Among animals the influence of the olfactory perceptions on the
sexual sense is unmistakable. According to Krafft Ebing, Althaus
shows that animals of opposite sexes are drawn to each other by
means of olfactory perceptions, and that almost all animals at
the time of rutting emit a very strong odor from their genitals.
It is said that the dog is attracted in this way to the bitch
several miles away. An experiment by Schiff is confirmatory. He
extirpated the olfactory nerves of puppies, and found that as
they grew the male was unable to distinguish the female. Certain
animals, such as the musk-ox, civet-cat, and beaver, possess
glands on their sexual organs that secrete materials having a
very strong odor. Musk, a substance possessing the most
penetrating odor and used in therapeutics, is obtained from the
preputial follicles of the musk-deer of Thibet; and castor, a
substance less penetrating, is obtained from the preputial sacs
of the beaver.
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