ls who consult a doctor are nearly always more or
less pathological, and belong to the domain of hereditary or
auto-suggestive perversions. For the first, at least, we avoid
recommending marriage. Von Schrenck-Notzing has sometimes succeeded in
transforming hereditary inversion into normal sexual appetite for
women, by hypnotic suggestion. I have also succeeded myself, two or
three times. After a cure of long duration, confirmed by frequent
visits to prostitutes, Von Schrenck-Notzing has ventured to recommend
marriage; but I have never done this, as I do not consider a cure
sufficient to guarantee definite success, in the case of disorders so
deeply rooted in the constitution. In such cases I have endeavored, as
far as possible, to weaken the sexual appetite and induce the patient
to be contented with nocturnal emissions. I have always debarred
inverts from marriage, impressing them with the fact that to marry
would be a crime, and that they had a hundred times better masturbate;
or, if they wish to attempt intercourse with women, to be contented
with a mistress, avoiding the procreation of children.

Unfortunately, our present laws and customs prevent us from
recommending or even allowing inverts to "marry" their fellows, as
they so strongly desire to do. This would be very innocent from the
social point of view, and the poor wretches would be content, and
would cease to be a menace to normal individuals.

I am, therefore, of the same opinion as those who demand the
suppression of all laws which punish or prosecute sexual inversion and
pederasty committed between adults and in common agreement. So long as
pederasts do not harm normal individuals, and so long as they do not
seduce minors, they should be left alone, the same as all other
sexually perverted individuals who are not dangerous. But when a
patient of this kind wishes to be treated, through shame or nervous
excitement, the doctor should hypnotize him and suggest distraction of
mind by useful occupations. Psychic treatment is always the most
efficacious. It is only in cases where it is certain that the
perversion is purely acquired and easily curable that marriage can be
allowed, or the procreation of children. I am not referring here to
sterile marriages between perverts or psychopaths, which we have
mentioned above, and which can always be allowed when the two parties
are fully enlightened on the subject.

Frequent emissions, masturbation, sexual hyperaest