with my back to him
he drew my prepuce back and forth until I experienced orgasm, but
not ejaculation. I would return his favor by pumping his erect
penis, but with no ejaculation on his part. He did not propose
_fellatio_, and I did not think of it. One night when he was in
my bed I began to masturbate very slightly, whereupon he laughed,
saying: "So that is the way you amuse yourself!" As a matter of
fact the habit was not fastened upon me. He always laughed when
the rubbing of his finger on my exposed glans caused me to
shrink. Another boy, H., now began to show me his erect penis and
we practiced mutual manipulations. A. laughingly told me how me
had caught H. in the act of masturbating as he stood in the
bath-tub. A. told me a number of sexual stories--how he enjoyed
coitus in the bushes with a girl on the way home from
entertainments; how half a dozen boys and girls stripped in the
basement of a church and performed coitus on the velvet chairs
which stood behind the pulpit; and how he and a younger boy, who
camped out together, played with each other's genitals. F., a boy
of 11, was highly nervous, subject to timidity and tears on the
slightest provocation, often morose, and under treatment for
kidney trouble. His penis was erect whenever I saw him undress.
He told me that a partially idiotic man taught F. and his
companion how to masturbate. The man invited the boys to his tent
and there pumped his organ until "some white stuff came out of
it." F. also told me that an Indian princess in his part of the
country would permit coitus for fifty cents. A. sometimes slept
with F., and I could imagine their embraces. S., a secretive,
handsome boy of 13, wetted his bed with urine every night. The
only sign that he gave of an interest in sexuality was his
laughing remark concerning the coupling of rose-bugs. Of his
chum, my beloved C., I will speak later. My small room-mate
handled himself only slightly. I never had a desire to lie with
him, since I disliked him, nor with my first room-mate, a
"chunky," fiery boy of 10, whose penis interested me merely
because it was circumcised and almost always erect. His
masturbation was also so slight as not to attract any particular
attention. A lusty German boy, B., showed no signs of sexuality
until his third year, when he laughed about