d of the typical _homme
moyen sensuel_ (see Pepys, _Diary_, ed. Wheatley; e.g., vol. iv,
passim).

There is a third class of married men, less considerable in
number but not unimportant, who are impelled to visit
prostitutes: the class of sexually perverted men. There are a
great many reasons why such men may desire to be married, and in
some cases they marry women with whom they find it possible to
obtain the particular form of sexual gratification they crave.
But in a large proportion of cases this is not possible. The
conventionally bred woman often cannot bring herself to humor
even some quite innocent fetishistic whim of her husband's, for
it is too alien to her feelings and too incomprehensible to her
ideas, even though she may be genuinely in love with him; in many
cases the husband would not venture to ask, and scarcely even
wish, that his wife should lend herself to play the fantastic or
possibly degrading part his desires demand. In such a case he
turns naturally to the prostitute, the only woman whose business
it is to fulfil his peculiar needs. Marriage has brought no
relief to these men, and they constitute a noteworthy proportion
of a prostitute's clients in every great city. The most ordinary
prostitute of any experience can supply cases from among her own
visitors to illustrate a treatise of psychopathic sexuality. It
may suffice here to quote a passage from the confessions of a
young London (Strand) prostitute as written down from her lips by
a friend to whom I am indebted for the document; I have merely
turned a few colloquial terms into more technical forms. After
describing how, when she was still a child of thirteen in the
country, a rich old gentleman would frequently come and exhibit
himself before her and other girls, and was eventually arrested
and imprisoned, she spoke of the perversities she had met with
since she had become a prostitute. She knew a young man, about
twenty-five, generally dressed in a sporting style, who always
came with a pair of live pigeons, which he brought in a basket.
She and the girl with whom she lived had to undress and take the
pigeons and wring their necks; he would stand in front of them,
and as the necks were wrung orgasm occurred. Once a man met her
in the street and asked her if he might come with her and lick