nd a hearty welcome. I am
passionately fond of music, have an excellent piano, and can hear
the best concerts in Europe. I go to all good plays. I am a good
chess player. Lastly, I am an omnivorous reader. You will allow
that my resources for passing the time are not limited.

"Of course, I am sorry that I sinned, and wish that I had not
done so. But I disclaim any feeling of shame."

S.W. was the youngest of four children and the only boy. His
father was 40 at his birth, his mother 33. The father was an
intellectual man of weak character, the mother a woman of violent
and eccentric temper, with, he believes, strong sexual passions.
S.W. knows of nothing in the family to account for his own
abnormal condition.

He is short (five feet five inches), but well built, with strong
chest and a powerful voice. His arms are weak and flabby
(feminine, he thinks), but the legs muscular. As a boy of 14 he
could walk forty miles with ease, and he played football till
near the age of 45. He is considered manly in character and
tastes, but is easily moved to tears under strong excitement.
There is no information as to the type of man to whom he is
attracted. I may observe, however, that the analytical chemist
who first evoked S.W.'s admiration was well known to me some
thirty years later, as he was my own teacher in chemistry. At
that time he was an elderly man of attractive appearance and
character, sympathetic and winning in manner to an almost
feminine extent.

S.W. has never felt the slightest sexual attraction toward the
opposite sex. The first indications of inverted feeling were at
the age of 6 or 7. Watching his father's pupils, boys of 13 or
14, from the windows, he speculated on what their organs of
generation were like. "In connection with a girl," he writes, "I
should no more have thought of such a thing than in the case of a
block of marble." About this time, indeed, he at times slept with
a sister of 10, who induced him to go through the form of sexual
connection, saying that it felt "so funny;" but he merely did
this to please her, and without the slightest interest or feeling
on his own part. This attitude became more marked with increased
knowledge, until he fell ardently in love at the age of 12.
Throughout life he has practised masturbation to a certain
ext