ved the two
following cases:

(1). A boy of seven years, the son of a brothel keeper, and a
kind of satyr who committed great excesses, began spontaneously
to attack little girls of his own age or even younger. He was so
artful that all means failed in curing him of this habit, and he
was sent to an asylum of which I was superintendent. He then
tried to renew his exploits with a boy older than himself. He
was also idle and disposed to all kinds of folly. He did not,
however, attempt to copulate with adult women or men. His sexual
organs were absolutely infantile, without any abnormal
development. His paradoxy was thus of cerebral origin.

(2). _A girl of nine years was brought to my office addicted to
self-abuse. Upon examination, I found this child highly
neurotic, the major part of her life had been under unhygienic
atmosphere, case history, father psychopathic, had been in an
insane asylum, mother aenemic. The child was sent to a state
institution for girls and improved remarkably._

In this case I was told that there was no hereditary taint, but such
statements prove nothing. Individuals of this kind generally become
criminals, or else give themselves up to masturbation or prostitution.

Occasionally, the sexual appetite may be preserved for a long time in
old men, or reappear for a time, with or without sexual power, but as
a rule, the paradoxy of old men is the initial symptom of _senile
dementia_. As this disorder is only commencing when sexual excitation
occurs, it is not noticed, and the patient is regarded as an immoral,
vicious or criminal individual. I have seen a patient of this kind
masturbate openly in an asylum, so great was his sexual excitation.

In most old men affected with senile sexual paradoxy, the sexual
appetite is directed toward very young girls or even children, which
aggravates their case from the legal point of view. Very often this
appetite is perverted and assumes one of the forms we shall speak of
later. Some of these old men are still capable, but others are not,
and then their excitation only manifests itself in manipulations of
the genital organs, etc. Such cases play a considerable part in law
scandals. The patient (for so he must be called) often becomes the
victim of blackmail on the part of vicious girls or children, incited
by unnatural parents. One often sees also, at the onset of senile
dementia, an old man b