recisely the same words were used by one of my subjects.] Also,
the _liaison_ springs up now and then quite accidentally through
juxtaposition, when it is difficult to say whether either at the
outset had an inverted tendency of any marked quality. In these
cases the sexual relation seems to come on as a heightening of
comradely affection, and is found to be pleasurable--sometimes, I
think, discovered to be safe as well as satisfying. On the other
hand, so far as I know, it is extremely rare to observe a
permanent _liaison_ between two pronounced inverts."

The tendency to pseudosexual attraction in the homosexual would
thus seem to involve a preference for normal persons. How far
this is the case it seems difficult to state positively. Usually,
one may say, an invert falls in love (exactly as in the case of a
normal person) without any intellectual calculation as to the
temperamental ability to return the affection which the object of
his love may possess. Naturally, however, there cannot be any
adequate return of the affection in the absence of an actual or
latent homosexual disposition. On this point an American
correspondent (H.C.), with a wide knowledge of inversion in many
lands, writes: "One of your correspondents declares that inverts
long for sexual relations with normal men rather than with one
another. If this be true, I have never once found it exemplified
in all my wide experience of inverts; and I have submitted his
assertion to more than 50. These have replied invariably that
unless a man is himself homosexual, nearly all the pleasure of
_fellatio_ is absent. The fact is, the majority of inverts flock
together not from exigency, but from choice. The mere sexual act
is, if anything, far less the sole object between inverts than it
is between normal men and women. Why should the invert sigh for
intercourse with normal men, where mutual confidences and
sympathies and love would be out of the question? Personally, I
decline to commit _fellatio_ with a man who is given to women;
the thought of it is repugnant to me. And this is the attitude
with every invert I have questioned. The nearest approach to
confirmation of your correspondent's theory has been when an
extremely feminine invert here and there has admitted the wish
that a certain normal man _were_ inverted. Inde