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THE MASK OF SANITY

Section 3: Cataloging the Material

Part 3: A clinical profile

59. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated

 

 

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59. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated

The psychopath's sex life invariably shows peculiarities. The opinion has already

been expressed that homosexuality and the other specific deviations, though of course

occurring in psychopaths, are not sufficiently common to be regarded as characteristic.

Evidence of consistent, well-formulated deviation was extremely rare in a large group of

male psychopaths personally observed in a closed psychiatric institution. Among male

and female subjects seen as outpatients and in general hospitals, such complications,

though more frequent, do not seem to be a distinguishing feature. If we take another

viewpoint and consider the group who come or are sent to the physician primarily for

sexual deviation, we find again some patients with behavior patterns resembling in

various degrees that of the real psychopath. These patients are probably not typical of

the deviate group as a whole, whose members much more frequently show different

fundamental patterns of adjustment and maladjustment.

Unmistakable psychopaths who do not show evidence of strong or consistent

deviated impulses but who nevertheless occasionally carry out abnormal

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sexual acts have been seen much more often than those in whom the two fundamental

patterns seem to overlap. This is not surprising in view of the psychopath's notable

tendencies to hit upon unsatisfactory conduct in all fields and his apparent inability to

take seriously what would to others be repugnant and regrettable. The real homosexual

seeking an outlet for his own impulses often finds it possible to engage the psychopath

in deviated activities, sometimes for petty rewards, sometimes for what might best be

called just the hell of it.

It has been said that some people whose sexual activities are normal under

ordinary circumstances may, in the absence of normal opportunities, resort to immature

or abnormal practices as a substitutive measure. It is not hard to believe that a man of

orthodox sexuality, if stranded and alone for years on an uninhabited island, might

develop impulses toward masturbation. Some studies of prisoners give the impression

that mutual masturbation and far more abnormal relations occur in persons who, when

not confined, sought only heterosexual intercourse.184,296 Surely every psychiatrist has

seen people whose sexual aims are usually directed toward the other sex but whose

orientation is so confused, and whose evaluation of sexual experience is so trivial, that

they sometimes also engage in homosexual and other types of abnormal relations.

In psychopaths and in many other people who cannot be correctly placed with

the well-defined homosexual group, there are varying degrees of susceptibility or

inclination to immature or deviated sex practices. In contrast with others, the

psychopath requires impulses of scarcely more than whimlike intensity to bring about

unacceptable behavior in the sexual field or in any other. Even the faintest or most

fleeting notion or inclination to forge a check, to steal his uncle's watch, to see if he can

seduce his best friend's wife, or to have a little fling at fellatio, is by no means unlikely to

emerge as the deed. The sort of repugnance or other inhibiting force that would

prevent any or all such impulses from being followed (or perhaps from even becoming

conscious impulses) in another person is not a factor that can be counted on to play

much part in the psychopath's decisions.

The activities of a typical patient of this sort whom I once studied are highly

illustrative. This 27-year-old man, honor graduate of a college despite great irregularity

in his studies, had for a number of years followed a career so similar to those of the

other patients cited that there is no point in going into detail. He showed no indications

of ordinary homosexuality in manner, dress, physique, or in personality features. He

had been rather active in heterosexual relations since about fifteen, his partners being

professionals, girls of respectable family, and married women.

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All of these relations had apparently been to him more or less equivalent and

entirely without personal significance. He admitted having once or twice, and more or

less experimentally, submitted to the wishes of a homosexual and also to a couple of

blundering ventures into deviated activity while drinking with others apparently more

like himself. These did not seem to give him any particular satisfaction, and there is

reason to believe that he distinctly preferred what he did with women. To the patient,

any idea that he might be a homosexual seemed absurd.

In the absence of any persistent or powerful urge in this specific direction, the

patient, apparently without much previous thought, hit upon the notion of picking up

four Negro men who worked in the fields not far from his residence. In a locality

where the Ku Klux Klan (and its well-known attitudes) at the time enjoyed a good deal

of popularity, this intelligent and in some respects distinguished young man showed no

compunction about taking from the field these unwashed laborers, whom he concealed

in the back of a pickup truck, with him into a well-known place of amorous rendezvous.

At the place he chose, "tourists' cabins" were discreetly set up in such a way that women

brought by men to them for familiar purposes could enter without the possible

embarrassment of being identified by the management. Despite these facilities

suspicion arose, and the patient was surprised by the man in charge of the resort while

in the process of carrying out fellatio on his four companions. He had chosen to take

the oral role.

When seen not long after this event, the young man was courteous but a trifle

impatient about how long he might have to be hospitalized. He showed some concern

with what use psychiatric examination might be in helping him avoid the term of

imprisonment that would, according to the law, befall him if he should be convicted of

the charges made by the proprietor and which he did not deny. This possibility did not,

however, greatly alarm him.

He had often evaded penalties for antisocial acts in the past, and he had a good

deal of easy confidence. Although he expressed regret and said his prank was quite a

mistake, he seemed totally devoid of deep embarrassment. On the whole, his attitude

might be suggested by such phrases as "Well, boys will be boys," or "Now wasn't that a

foolish damn thing for me to do." These were not his literal words, but they are

congruent with his behavior. By some legal step, his family, whose members were

wealthy and influential, succeeded in having him avoid trial. Finding himself free, he left

against medical advice within a few days.

As might be expected, in view of their incapacity for object love, the sexual aims

of psychopaths do not seem to include any important personality relations or any

recognizable desire or ability to explore or possess or

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significantly ravish the partner in a shared experience. Their positive activities are

consistently and parsimoniously limited to literal physical contact and relatively free of

the enormous emotional concomitants and the complex potentialities that make adult

love relations an experience so thrilling and indescribable. Consequently they seem to

regard sexual activity very casually, sometimes apparently finding it less shocking and

enthralling than a sensitive normal man would find even the glance of his beloved.

None of the psychopaths personally observed have impressed me as having

particularly strong sex cravings even in this uncomplicated and poverty stricken sense.

Indeed, they have nearly all seemed definitely less moved to obtain genital pleasure than

the ordinary run of people. The impression one gets is that their amativeness is little

more than a simple itch and that even the itch is seldom, if ever, particularly intense.

The male psychopath, despite his usual ability to complete the physical act

successfully with a woman, never seems to find anything meaningful or personal in his

relations or to enjoy significant pleasure beyond the localized and temporary sensations.

The female, whether or not she has physiologic orgasm, behaves in such a way as to

indicate similar evaluations of the experience. Even these sensations seem to wither

precociously and leave the subject a somewhat desiccated response to local stimuli.

Sensations so isolated are, no doubt, peculiarly vulnerable to routine and to its justly

celebrated antidotes for excitement.

What is felt for prostitute, sweetheart, casual pickup, mistress, or wife is not

anything that can bring out loyalty or influence activities into a remedial or constructive

plan, Not do sexual desires always seem to compete successfully against such trivial

impulses as wanting to hang about street corners or idle in juke joints where the

psychopath may, by tampering with slot machines or cheating at dice or cards, pick up a

little change and demonstrate his cleverness to the other fellows. So little is apparently

found in heterosexual experience that deviate impulses (even when weak) are sometimes

accepted and acted upon largely because of reasons like the reason why all cats look gray

at night.

For the person who has ever known even one mature and normal erotic

fulfillment, it is impossible to imagine turning by choice to a biologically inappropriate

partner or placing partial or deviated aims above what has been so obviously well

designed for the purpose. What the human organism shows anatomically is scarcely

more clear than the emotional evidence, at physiologic as well as at broader

interpersonal levels of reactivity. Even from more remote and less tangible sociologic

aspects, nature has left no room here for doubt. It is difficult, without postulating an

extremely dulled or otherwise inhibited sensual response in heterosexual experience, to

account

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for the psychopath who can drift into deviate pranks as approximations or acceptable

novelties in the same field. It has been said that "the thalamus outdid itself in devising

pleasures to go with the conjugating act itself."298 Without great support from ethics or

convention, it seems these would suffice for normal choice in the intact personality.

The familiar record of sexual promiscuity found in both male and female

psychopaths seems much more closely related to their almost total lack of self-imposed

restraint than to any particularly strong passions or drives. Psychopaths sometimes

seem by preference to seek sexual relations in sordid surroundings with persons of low

intellectual or social status. Often, however, the convenience by which what is little

more than a whim can be gratified may play a greater part in this than specific

preference. Another and more serious kind of sordidness also seems to constitute real

inducement.

Entanglements which go out of their way to mock ordinary human sensibility or

what might be called basic decency are prevalent in their sexual careers. To casually

"make" or "lay" the best friend's wife and to involve a husband's uncle or one of his

business associates in a particularly messy triangular or quadrilateral situation are typical

acts. Such opportunities, when available, seem not to repel but specifically to attract the

psychopath. Neither distinct appeal of the sex object nor any formulated serious

malignity toward those cuckolded or otherwise outraged seems to be a major factor in

such choices. There is more to suggest a mildly prankish impulse such as might lead the

ordinary man to violate small pedantic technicalities or dead and preposterous bits of

formality as a demonstration of their triviality.

Sexual exploits often seem chosen almost purposively to put the subject himself,

as well as others, in positions of sharp indignity and distastefulness. The male

psychopath who goes through legal matrimony with the whore he has picked up for the

evening furnishes a clear example. And so does the well-born woman who submits to

several men in rapid succession, none of whom takes the least trouble to conceal his

contempt for her. I have seen psychopaths who seriously attempted to seduce sisters,

mothers-in-law, and even their actual mothers. One boasted to his wife in glowing

detail of his erotic feats with her mother and with his own. His excellent talents at lying

lead me to doubt the truth of his claims. I have little doubt, however, that he would

have hesitated to carry out all that he boasted of if the ladies had allowed him to

proceed.

Beneath his outwardly gracious manner toward women and his general suavity

and social charms, the male psychopath (or part psychopath) nearly always shows an

underlying predilection for obscenity, an astonishingly ambivalent attitude in which the

amorous and excretory functions seem to

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be confused. He sometimes gives the impression that an impulse to smear his partner

symbolically, and even to wallow in sordidness himself, is more fundamental than a

directly erotic aim, itself hardly more to him than a sort of concomitant and slightly

glorified back scratching.

 

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