e has no views, but
he thus sums up his moral attitude: "I presume that, if it is
there, it is there for use or abuse, as men please. I condemn
gratification of bodily desire at the expense of others, in
whatever form it may take. I condemn it no more in its inverted
form than in the ordinary. I believe that affection between
persons of the same sex, even when it includes the sexual passion
and its indulgences, may lead to results as splendid as human
nature can ever attain to. In short, I place it on an absolute
equality with love as ordinarily understood."

HISTORY V.--S.W., aged 64, English, musical journalist. The
communication which follows (somewhat abbreviated) was written
before S.W. had heard or read anything about sexual inversion,
and when he still believed that his own case was absolutely
unique.

"I am the son of a clergyman, and lived for the first thirteen
years of my life in the country town where I was born. Then my
father became the vicar of a country village, where I lived until
I went out into the world at the age of 18. As during the whole
of this time my father had a few pupils, I was educated with
them, and never went to school. I was born, I fancy, with sexual
passions about as strong as can well be imagined, and at the same
time was very precocious in my entry into the stage of puberty.
Semen began to form a little before my twelfth birthday; hair
soon followed, and in a year I was in that respect the equal of
an average boy of 15 or 16. I conversed freely with my companions
on the relations of the sexes, but, unlike them, had no personal
feeling toward girls. In time I became conscious that I was
different, as I then believed, and believe now, from all other
men. My sexual organs were quite perfect. But in the frame of a
man I had the sexual mind of a female. I distinctly disclaim the
faintest inclination to perform unnatural acts; the idea of
committing sodomy would be _most disgusting_.

"To come to my actual condition of mind: While totally
indifferent to the person of woman (I always enjoyed their
friendship and companionship, and many of my best friends have
been ladies), I had a burning desire to have carnal intercourse
with a male, and had the capacity for falling in love, as it is
called, to the utmost extent. In imagination, I pos