ABSTRACT
In view of the foregoing analysis showing the occurrence of both captivation and passion responses without environmental stimulation of the genital organs, it seems hardly necessary to emphasize the fact that these organs are not to be regarded as the sole source of the love responses. Captivation and passion are compound types of integrations which may be evoked by various types of adequate stimuli. The genital organs, however, seem especially designed to bring about love integrations, just as the digestive organs are especially designed to bring about the proper integrative pattern of appetite emotion. The genital organs also serve, very probably, as circular reinforcing mechanisms for love excitement having its origin in receptors totally different from those located in the genital organs themselves. It is possible that motor discharge from the compound emotions of captivation and passion may find its way toward internal and external genitals in certain fixed proportions, just as it is possible that motor discharge from desire and satisfaction may always find its way to the alimentary canal and skeletal muscles of appetite, in certain fixed proportions of volume of discharge. But these possibilities both require experimental proof before formulation even of tentative hypotheses. In any event, the genital organs, like the digestive mechanisms, are to be regarded as natural, automatic teachers of the compound emotional responses which they are suited to initiate. That the genital organs are equipped automatically to evoke captivation and submission emotions can be made clear by a brief consideration of the structures and functions of these mechanisms after sexual maturity of the individual. Both sexes possess two sets of genital organs, internal and external.
