grief.  At the age of 12 he went to boarding-school and was constantly falling in love with good-looking boys.  He was always taken into one of the bigger boys’ beds.  At this age he was thoroughly able to enjoy the sexual orgasm with boys.  His erotic dreams have always been of men and especially of boys; he has never dreamed sexually of women.  From the age of 9 to the age of 21, when he left school, he never gave women a thought sexually, though he always liked their society.  For two years after leaving school he had connection with women, not because he thought there was sin in loving his own sex, but because he regarded it as a thing that no one did after leaving school.  During these two years he still really preferred men and used to admire the figures of soldiers and sailors.  He then paid a visit to London, which may be described in his own words:  “I went to see an old schoolfellow who was living there.  In his room was a young fellow, fair, extremely good looking, with a good figure and charming manners.  From that moment all my past recollections came back.  I could not get him out of my mind; in fact, I was in love with him.  I pictured him naked before me as a lovely statue; my dreams were frequent at night, always of him.  For a fortnight afterward I practised masturbation with the picture of his lovely face and form always before me.  We became fast friends, and from that day women have never entered my thoughts.”

Although up to the present he has no wish or intention to marry, he believes that he will eventually do so, because it is thought desirable in his profession; but he is quite sure that his love and affection for men and boys will never lessen.

In earlier life he preferred men from 20 to 35; now he likes boys from 16 upward; grooms, for instance, who must be good looking, well developed, cleanly, and of a lovable, unchanging nature; but he would prefer gentlemen.  He does not care for mere mutual embracing and reciprocal masturbation; when he really loves a man he desires pedicatio in which he is himself the passive subject.

He has curly hair and moustache, and well-developed sexual organs.  His habits are masculine; he has always enjoyed field sports, and can swim, ride, drive, and skate.  At the same time, he is devoted to music, can draw and paint, and is an ardent admirer of male statuary.  While fond of practical occupations of every sort, he dislikes anything that is theoretical.

    He adds:  “As a medical man, I fail to see morally any
    unhealthiness, or anything that nature should be ashamed of, in
    connection with, and sympathy for, men.”

    HISTORY XXV.—­A.S.  Schoolmaster, aged 46.