There is no exception to this rule, even the sexual organs being included. Masturbation in a child under the age of puberty is not provoked by internal emotions. It is downright cruelty to punish a little child for masturbating. It would be as reasonable to punish one for crying with a grain of sand in the eye, or for being fidgety with ants under his clothing. Many neuroses and even psychoses have their origin in pathological conditions of the hood of the clitoris.
Reflexes travel along the line of least resistance.
Irritation in the sexual organs, therefore, may reach the mental or moral faculties, resulting in imbecility, sexual perversion or moral degeneracy. Many neuroses and even psychoses have their origin in pathological conditions of the hood of the clitoris. I feel an impulse to cry out against the shameful neglect of the clitoris and hood. Some two months ago, a child two and a half years old, was brought to me from Ottawa, Kansas. It presented a bad case of marasmus, malnutrition, anemia.