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The authors of sexual aggression are almost always men, something which is not often mentioned in the literature. This article addresses the question of the masculine componant in these behaviors by delving deeper into a hypothesis based on the notion of the “melancholic feminine” developed by C. Chabert. Among the modes of psychic organisation in these subjects, the movements seem to appear more frequently on a “maniac masculine” level, and attempt to defend them against an original passiveness and sexual differentiation, both sources of distress and of a major threat of loss, or even of annihilation. Projective clinical work, by way of treatment for excitation, tests passivity and its refusal, but also the oscillation between triumph and defeat of the Ego and the object. This clinical work also shows the failure of the struggle against melancholy which a manic use of the penis or of one of its substitutes tries to relieve, according to C. Balier, by means of sexual aggression as an ultimate attempt to preserve the psyche.