ys
from 16 upward; grooms, for instance, who must be good looking,
well developed, cleanly, and of a lovable, unchanging nature; but
he would prefer gentlemen. He does not care for mere mutual
embracing and reciprocal masturbation; when he really loves a man
he desires _pedicatio_ in which he is himself the passive
subject.

He has curly hair and moustache, and well-developed sexual
organs. His habits are masculine; he has always enjoyed field
sports, and can swim, ride, drive, and skate. At the same time,
he is devoted to music, can draw and paint, and is an ardent
admirer of male statuary. While fond of practical occupations of
every sort, he dislikes anything that is theoretical.

He adds: "As a medical man, I fail to see morally any
unhealthiness, or anything that nature should be ashamed of, in
connection with, and sympathy for, men."

HISTORY XXV.--A.S. Schoolmaster, aged 46.

"My father was, I should say, below the average in capacity for
friendship. He liked young girls, and was never interested in
boys. He was a man of strongly Puritanical morality, capable of
condemning with gloomy bitterness. He was also a man capable of
great sacrifice for principle, and mentally very well endowed. My
mother was a clever, practical woman, with wide sympathies. She
was capable of warm friendship, especially toward those younger
than herself. Her father (whom I never saw) was a teacher. He was
devoted to his wife, but also delighted in the company of young
men. He had always some young man on his arm, my mother would
tell me. My mother's family is of Welsh descent. I learned to
read at 5, and I can scarcely have been more than 6 when I used
to read again and again David's lament for Absalom. Even now I
can dimly recall the siren charm for me of that melancholy
refrain, 'O my son Absalom.... O Absalom, my son, my son!' Of
late, when I have thought of the amount of devotion I have shown
to lads, and the amount I have sometimes suffered for them, I
have felt as if there were something almost weirdly prophetic in
that early incident.

"I was always an impressionable creature. My mother was very
musical, and her singing 'got hold' of me wonderfully. The
dramatic and the poetic always strongly appealed to me.

"I felt I should like to act; but I never dared. In the same