induced by sociable companionship, and only controlled by force
of will.

For business he has not the slightest aptitude, and cannot look
after his own affairs. He is always dreading poverty and
destitution. He believes, however, that he passes among his
friends as fairly capable.

He considers that inversion is natural in his case and that he
has a perfect right to gratify his own natural instincts, though
he also admits they may be vices. He has never sought to
influence an innocent person toward his own tendencies.

HISTORY XI.--T.D., knows of nothing abnormal in his ancestry. His
brother has homosexual tendencies, but is also attracted to
women. A sister, who is very religious, states that she has
little or no sexual inclinations. They were all of a dreamy
disposition when young, to the disgust of their teachers. He sent
the following account of himself from the University at the age
of 20:--

"When I was a child (before I went to school at 9)," he writes,
"I was already of an affectionate disposition, an affection
turned readily to either sex. No boy was the cause of my
inclinations, which were quite spontaneous. (No doubt, part of
the cause may be found in our social system, by which ladies are
rather drawing-room creatures to be treated with distant
respect.) When I was 10, at a preparatory school, I first began
to form attachments with other boys of my own age, in which I
always had regard to physical beauty. It is this stage, in which
the sexual element is latent, that Shelley speaks of as preceding
love in ardent natures.

"At 12 I learned masturbation, apparently by instinct, and, I
regret to say, practised it to excess for the next seven years,
always secretly and with shame, and often with the accompaniment
of prurient imaginings which did not prevent my relations with
those I loved being of a very spiritual nature. Masturbation was
often practised daily, with bursts of repentance and abstinence,
latterly more rarely. But until I was 15 I really knew nothing of
sexual matters, and it was not till I was at least 17 that I was
conscious of sexual desire, which I repressed with shame.

"Owing to excessive self-abuse, I am unable to emit except
manually, but desire is strong. I think naked contact would
suffice, and in any case intercrural connecti