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PHILIP SICKER In his 1897 treatise Auto-eroticism, Havelock Ellis offers a provocative illustration in support of his claim that "the more or less voluntary pressure of the thighs . . . brought to bear on the sexual regions" is alone sufficient to produce female orgasm. Recalling a young woman whom he had "observed unnoticed" as she sat in a provincial train station, Ellis offers documentary evidence that "thigh friction" is often "so comparatively decorous a form of masturbation that it may even be performed in public places." She was leaning back with legs crossed, swinging the crossed foot vigorously and continuously; this continued without interruption for some ten minutes after I first observed her; then the swinging movement reached a climax; she leant still further back, thus bringing the sexual region more closely in contact with the edge of the bench and straightened and stiffened her body and legs in what appeared to be a momentary spasm; there could be little doubt as to what had taken place. A few minutes later she walked from her solitary seat into the waiting-room and sat down among the other waiting passengers, quite still now with uncrossed legs, a pale, quiet
Joyce Studies Annual – Fordham University Press
Published: Apr 13, 2004
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