ils are given regarding
establishments for male prostitution. See pages 322, 412, and 417
for description of the drinking-shop called 'Aux Amis de
l'Armee,' where a few maids were kept for show, and also of its
frequenters, including, in particular, the Adjutant Laprevotte.
Ulrichs reports that in the Austrian army lectures on homosexual
vices are regularly given to cadets and conscripts (_Memnon_, p.
26). A soldier who had left the army told a friend of mine that
he and many of his comrades had taken to homosexual indulgences
when abroad on foreign service in a lonely station. He kept the
practice up in England 'because the women of his class were so
unattractive.' The captain of an English man-of-war said that he
was always glad to send his men on shore after a long cruise at
sea, never feeling sure how far they might not all go if left
without women for a certain space of time." I may add that A.
Hamon (_La France Sociale et Politique_, 1891, pp. 653-55; also
in his _Psychologie du Militaire Professional_, chapter x) gives
details as to the prevalence of homosexuality in the French army,
especially in Algeria; he regards it as extremely common,
although the majority are free. A fragment of a letter by General
Lamoriciere (speaking of Marshal Changarnier) is quoted: _En
Afrique nous en etions tous, mais lui en est reste ici_.

This primitive indifference is doubtless also a factor in the prevalence
of homosexuality among criminals, although, here, it must be remembered,
two other factors (congenital abnormality and the isolation of
imprisonment) have to be considered. In Russia, Tarnowsky observes that
all pederasts are agreed that the common people are tolerably indifferent
to their sexual advances, which they call "gentlemen's games." A
correspondent remarks on "the fact, patent to all observers, that simple
folk not infrequently display no greater disgust for the abnormalities of
sexual appetite than they do for its normal manifestations."[42] He knows
of many cases in which men of lower class were flattered and pleased by
the attentions of men of higher class, although not themselves inverted.
And from this point of view the following case, which he mentions, is very
instructive:--

A pervert whom I can trust told me that he had made advances to
upward of one hundred men in the course of the last fourteen
years, and t