"Erethism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... argued that attention to a part tends to produce capillary activity in the part, and that the face has been the chief object of attention. It has also been argued, on the other hand, that the blush is the vestigial remains of a general erethism of sex, in which shame originated; that the blush was thus once more widely diffused, and is so still among the women of some lower races, its limitation to the face being due to sexual selection and the enhanced beauty thus achieved. Fere ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis |
