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Pornography and Perversion

Robert J. Stoller, MD
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Submitted for publication Sept 11, 1969.

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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1970;22(6):490-499. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1970.01740300010002
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PORNOGRAPHY is a daydream in which activities, usually but not necessarily overtly sexual, are projected into written or pictorial material to induce genital excitement in an observer. No depiction is pornographic until an observer's fantasies are added; nothing per se is pornographic. There is always a victim, no matter how disguised: no victim, no pornography. The use of such matter is an act of perversion with several components. (Perversion is defined for the present purpose as indefinitely repeating conscious preference for a genitally stimulating exciting act which is not genital heterosexual intercourse.) The most apparent is voyeurism. The second, hidden (unless the person is an overt sexual sadist), is sadism; sadism is, however, rather easily demonstrated. The third, more hidden (unless the person is an overt sexual masochist), is masochism; masochism is hard to demonstrate, since it is hidden in an unconscious identification with the depicted victim.

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Stoller RJ: Sex and Gender . New York, Science House, 1968;, pp 176-193.
Fenichel O:  The psychology of transvestism (1930) , in Collected Papers . New York, WW Norton & Co Inc Publishers, 1953;, vol 1, pp 167-180.
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Freud S:  Splitting of the ego in the process of defence (1940) , in Strachey J (trans-ed): Complete Psychological Works , standard edition. London, Hogarth Press Ltd, 1964;, vol 23, pp 275-278.
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Stoller RJ:  Transvestites' women . Amer J Psychiat 124:333-339, 1967;.
Stoller RJ: Sex and Gender . New York, Science House, 1968;, pp 176-193.
Fenichel O:  The psychology of transvestism (1930) , in Collected Papers . New York, WW Norton & Co Inc Publishers, 1953;, vol 1, pp 167-180.
Freud S:  Fetishism (1927) , in Strachey J (trans-ed): Complete Psychological Works , standard edition. London, Hogarth Press Ltd, 1961;, vol 21, pp 152-157.
Freud S:  Splitting of the ego in the process of defence (1940) , in Strachey J (trans-ed): Complete Psychological Works , standard edition. London, Hogarth Press Ltd, 1964;, vol 23, pp 275-278.
Freud S:  Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905) , in Strachey J (trans-ed): Complete Psychological Works , standard edition. London, Hogarth Press Ltd, 1960;, vol 8, pp 194-208, 222-227.
Kinsey AC, et al: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female . Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1953;, pp 651-672.

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