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very well be applied to one of her acquaintances, whose neurosis she 

 diagnosed as kamalo : y taminyk. Alima Huma : re and Hivsu : 

 Tupo : ma also mentioned this type of woman quite spontaneously. 



Etiology. — The shaman Almia Huma : re volunteered the informa- 

 tion that this disease was similar to ya tcahaetk wliich, as stated above, 

 is caused by an excessive sexual urge, which no amount of masturba- 

 tion and coitus can satiate. 



Symptomatology. — ^According to Ahma Huma : re, "People who do 

 not think of their homes, and do not care for anything except running 

 around and sex, are said to be yamomk (insane). The kamalo :y 

 taminyk illness is very similar to ya tcahaetk. Regardless of whether 

 a person suffering from kamalo : y taminyk gets married or stays single, 

 he will be ya tcahaetk." According to Hivsu : Tupo : ma, "Such a 

 woman is constantly in a state of sexual excitement bordering on 

 orgasm. This condition, which is complicated by the retention of 

 urine,*^^ is due to coital dreams. Such patients have dream-orgasms 

 without dream-pollutions." ^^ Tcatc also described this ilhiess in sim- 

 ilar, though less specific terms : "People try to keep away from such a 

 person. I personally know of no one who has kamalo : y taminyk, but 

 I have heard of such people. Nowadays one no longer meets such 

 persons. Nowadays groups of people of both sexes go on drinking 

 bouts and cohabit promiscuously, hardly knowing what they are doing. 

 Thus, we no longer see extremes of sexual desire. "Wlien I was young, 

 people behaved better. They had respect for each other, but now 

 drinking has come in and things have changed. Nowadays I myself 

 joke with men about this and that,^^ but when I was young I was afraid 

 of sexual relations and also afraid to marry." 



Summary. — The Mohave rate kamalo : y taminyk as a psychosis. 

 According to AJima Huma : re, such people are yamomk (insane) . "It 

 is a true insanity, like hi:wa itck" (pt. 3, pp. 91-106). Tcatc also 

 stated that such extremes of sexual desire were a form of yamomk. 



Therafy. — According to Hivsu: Tupo: ma, shamans are sometimes 

 asked to treat persons suffering from kamalo : y taminyk, and their 

 cures are said to be effective. 



Tentative diagnosis. — Nymphomania; compulsive promiscuous- 

 ness due to orgastic frigidity. 



The informants clearly specified that such a woman is unable to 

 discharge her sexual tensions either through coitus or through mastur- 



«* Mohave women sometimes void their urine either during orgasm, or immediately after- 

 ward (Devoreux, 1950 a). This also occurs in Micronesia, etc. (Devereus, 1958 a). 



•"■According to Ferenczi (1926), it is possible to have dream-orgasm without pollution, 

 and vice versa. 



"^ This is an indirect reference to her bantering conversations with me cited above 

 (footnote 64). 



