nfidants. I feel protective towards them, never feel jealous of
them, and hate having differences with them. And I feel always
that I am not one of them. If there had been any period in my
life when health, and temptation and money and opportunity had
made homosexual relations easy I cannot say how I should have
resisted. I think that I have never had any such relations simply
because I have in a way been safeguarded from them. For a long
time I thought I must do without all actual sexual relations and
acted up to that. If I had thought any relations right and
possible I think I should have striven for heterosexual
experiences because of the respect that I had cultivated, indeed
I think always had, for the normal and natural. If I had thought
it right to indulge any sort of gratification which was within my
reach I think I might probably have chosen the homosexual as
being perhaps more satisfying and more convenient. I always
wanted love and friendship first; later I should have been glad
of something to satisfy my sex hunger too, but by that time I
could have done without it, or I thought so."

At a period rather later than that dealt with in this narrative,
the subject of it became strongly attracted to a man who was of
somewhat feminine and abnormal disposition. But on consideration
she decided that it would not be wise to marry him.

The commonest characteristic of the sexually inverted woman is a certain
degree of masculinity or boyishness. As I have already pointed out,
transvestism in either women or men by no means necessarily involves
inversion. In the volume of _Women Adventurers_, edited by Mrs. Norman for
the Adventure Series, there is no trace of inversion; in most of these
cases, indeed, love for a man was precisely the motive for adopting male
garments and manners. Again, Colley Cibber's daughter, Charlotte Charke, a
boyish and vivacious woman, who spent much of her life in men's clothes,
and ultimately wrote a lively volume of memoirs, appears never to have
been attracted to women, though women were often attracted to her,
believing her to be a man; it is, indeed, noteworthy that women seem, with
special frequency, to fall in love with disguised persons of their own
sex.[166] There is, however, a very pronounced tendency among sexually
inverted women to adopt male attire when practicable. In such cases male
garments are