He has had erotic dreams rarely about men, about women more
frequently. While indifferent to women, he has no repulsion
toward them. He has had connection with women two or three times,
but without experiencing the same passionate emotions as with
men.
He would like a son, but he has never been able to get up the
necessary amount of passion to lead to marriage.
He has always had a sentimental and Platonic affection for men.
Of late years he has formed two friendships with adults of an
affectionate and also erotic character. He cares little for
anything beyond mutual masturbation and kissing; what he desires
is the love of the male.
In appearance there is nothing abnormal about him except an air
of youth. He is vigorous both in body and mind, and has enormous
power of resisting fatigue. He is an excellent man of business.
Is a patient student. He sees no harm in his homosexual passions.
He is averse to promiscuity. His ideal is a permanent union which
includes sexual relations.
HISTORY XV.--T.S., artist, aged 32. "I was born in England. My
father was a Jew, the first to marry out of his family and to
marry a Christian. My great-grandparents were cousins; he was a
German and she was a Dane. My grandparents were also cousins; he
was a Swede and she was a Dane.
"My maternal grandfather was an English Protestant, and my
maternal grandmother was Irish, fanatically Roman Catholic, and a
very eccentric woman.
"In my father's family there have been many members of note. In
my mother's family there were many renowned lawyers.
"My father had an elder brother who was homosexual. He was
already, at 31 years of age, a prominent author, when he died of
consumption. I have also a second cousin on my father's side who
is a very good tenor; he is also homosexual. In my mother's
family I know of nothing abnormal.
"In neither family is there or has there been any insanity, but
rather an overwealth of brain.
"My parents were an ideally happy couple. They were engaged after
knowing each other six days, and after being separated three
months they married. They were married thirty-five years without
a quarrel. I have a brother three years older, born a year after
their marriage, and a sister seven years younger.
"My brother takes after his father in appearance.
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