away from the markets and certain shops because of
the excessive admiration of mulatto women and negresses, and the impudent
invitations which they dare to address to her."[153] He refers to several
cases of more or less violent sexual attempts by women on young colored
girls of 12 or 14, and observes that such attempts by men on children of
their own sex are much rarer.

In China (according to Matignon) and in Cochin China (according to
Lorion) homosexuality does not appear to be common among women. In India,
however, it is probably as prevalent among women as it certainly is among
men.

In the first edition of this Study I quoted the opinion of Dr.
Buchanan, then Superintendant of the Central Gaol of Bengal at
Bhagalpur, who informed me that he had never come across a case
and that his head-gaoler had never heard of such a thing in
twenty-five years' experience. Another officer in the Indian
Medical Service assures me, however, that there cannot be the
least doubt as to the frequency of homosexuality among women in
India, either inside or outside gaols. I am indebted to him for
the following notes on this point:--

"That homosexual relationships are common enough among Indian
women is evidenced by the fact that the Hindustani language has
five words to denote the tribade: (1) _dugana_, (2) _zanakhe_,
(3) _sa'tar_, (4) _chapathai_, and (5) _chapatbaz_. The _modus
operandi_ is generally what Martial calls _geminos committere
cunnos_, but sometimes a phallus, called _saburah_, is employed.
The act itself is called _chapat_ or _chapti_, and the Hindustani
poets, Nazir, Rangin, Jan S'aheb, treat of Lesbian love very
extensively and sometimes very crudely. Jan S'aheb, a woman poet,
sings to the effect that intercourse with a woman by means of a
phallus is to be preferred to the satisfaction offered by a male
lover. The common euphemism employed when speaking of two
tribades who live together is that they 'live apart.' So much for
the literary evidence as to the prevalence of what, _mirable
dictu_, Dr. Buchanan's gaoler was ignorant of.

"Now for facts. In the gaol of R. the superintendent discovered a
number of phalli in the females' inclosure; they were made of
clay and sun-dried and bore marks of use. In the gaol of S. was a
woman who (as is usual with tribades in India) wore male attire,
and was well k