results. It has been found that after castration sexual desire and sexual pleasure in coitus may either remain the same, be diminished or extinguished, or be increased. By some the diminution has been attributed to autosuggestion, the woman being convinced that she can no longer be like other women; the augmentation of desire and pleasure has been supposed to be due to the removal of the dread of impregnation. We have, of course, to take into account individual
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 / Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
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Havelock Ellis
