Conclusions
Freud wrote, "The turning around of an instinct upon the subject is suggested to us by the reflection that masochism is actually sadism turned around upon the subject's own ego, and that exhibitionism includes the love of gazing at the subject's own body."
The male exhibitionist is more-likely to be arrested than is the female. The complaint to the police when a nude man parades by someone's window with the shades up would not necessarily have been made if the exhibitionist had been a female. So while exhibitionism is not rare among females, there is a great amount of psychoanalytic material concerning it.
It should also be considered that if a person is to exhibit himself there must be someone to look; one compliments the other. Thus, we have a fellow traveler, the voyeur.
Recorded cases of female exhibitionists are rare indeed, and I have made an effort to bring to light some of the cases that most exemplify what can, and does, happen if this sexual drive becomes uncontrollable. But I again say, there must be a watcher to complete the picture.
As Burch Robbins and Lad Crawford state in their book The Secret Watchers, "The fact that voyeurism and exhibitionism are closely entwined is given credence by the Freudian theory that all sexual deviations stem from a desire to repeat the sexual tendencies of childhood. Freud further cites childish sexual play is built around the desire to see the opposite sex's genitals and the desire to show one's genitals in return."
In his book The Art of Love, W. F. Robie states, "There is no adult human being who has not desired or perpetrated some sexual act which is an irregularity or a deviation from what is called the normal process; yet we do not call all men perverse. If one has an insistent demand for such deviation, and yet has voluntary control over it, his misfortune is called a perversity. If he has no control, and the special practice is substituted for the normal act, it is called a perversion. Masturbation may, in some rare instances, become a perversion. Cunnilingus, fellatio, etc., often become such. Pederasty, sadism, masochism, etc., are usually such.
"The professional man may not attach much moral significance to the incorrect use of this term; but the laity certainly do so; and it is unfortunate that the term is used so generally outside its proper connotation."
Like atomic energy, sex is a force which can be used to harm society, or to improve it.