ely novel, to allow him
to take liberties with them. At 25 he became engaged, and mutual
masturbation was practised to excess during the engagement; after
marriage connection generally took place twice every twenty-four
hours until pregnancy.

"At this time," he writes, "I stayed at the house of an old
school-fellow, due of my lovers of old days. There were so many
guests that I shared my friend's bedroom. The sight of his body
gave rise to lustful feelings, and when the light was out I stole
across to his bed. He made no objection, and we passed the night
in mutual masturbation. We passed the next fortnight together,
and I never took the same pleasure in coitus with my wife, though
I did my duty. She died five years later, and I devoted myself
heart and soul to my friend until his death by accident last
year. Since then I have lost all interest in life."

I am indebted for this case to a well-known English alienist, who
remarks that the patient is fairly healthy to look at, but with
neurasthenia and tendency to melancholia, and neurotic
temperament. The body is masculine and pubic hair abundant. One
testicle shows wasting.

HISTORIES XXIX AND XXX.--I give the following narrative in the
words of an intimate friend of one of the cases in question: "My
attention was first drawn to the study of inversion--though I
then regarded all forms of it as depraving and abominable--at a
public school, where in our dormitory a boy of 15 initiated his
select friends into the secrets of mutual masturbation, which he
had learned from his brother, a midshipman. I gave no heed to
this at the time, though I remembered it in after-years when
immersed in Plato, Lucretius, and the Epicurean writers. But my
attention was riveted to it at the age of 20, when I spent a
holiday with A., a companion with whom I was, and still am, on
terms of great friendship. We enjoyed many things in common,
studied together and discussed most unconventional matters, but
not this. Previously we had always occupied separate sleeping
apartments; on this occasion we were abroad in a country place,
and were compelled to put up with what we could get. We not only
had to share a room, but a bed. I was not surprised at his
throwing his arm over me, as I knew he was extraordinarily
attached to me, and I had always f