n to proclaim it. In sexual
inversion, however, when the woman takes a more active and
outspoken part than in normal love, it may very clearly be
traced. Here, indeed, it is often exaggerated, in consequence of
the common tendency for neurotic and neurasthenic persons to be
more than normally susceptible to the influence of odors. In the
majority of inverted women, it may safely be said, the odor of
the beloved person plays a very considerable part. Thus, one
inverted woman asks the woman she loves to send her some of her
hair that she may intoxicate herself in solitude with its perfume
(_Archivio di Psicopatie Sessuali_, vol. i, fasc. 3, p. 36).
Again, a young girl with some homosexual tendencies, was apt to
experience sexual emotions when in ordinary contact with
schoolfellows whose body odor was marked (Fere, _L'Instinct
Sexuel_, p. 260). Such examples are fairly typical.

That the body odor of men may in a large number of cases be
highly agreeable and sexually attractive is shown by the
testimony of male sexual inverts. There is abundant evidence to
this effect. Raffalovich (_L'Uranisme et l'Unisexualite_, p. 126)
insists on the importance of body odors as a sexual attraction to
the male invert, and is inclined to think that the increased odor
of the man's own body during sexual excitement may have an
auto-aphrodisiacal effect which is reflected on the body of the
loved person. The odor of peasants, of men who work in the open
air, is specially apt to be found attractive. Moll mentions the
case of an inverted man who found the "forest, mosslike odor" of
a schoolfellow irresistibly attractive.

The following passage from a letter written by an Italian marquis
has been sent to me: "Bonifazio stripped one evening, to give me
pleasure. He has the full, rounded flesh and amber coloring which
painters of the Giorgione school gave to their S. Sebastians.
When he began to dress, I took up an old _fascia_, or girdle of
netted silk, which was lying under his breeches, and which still
preserved the warmth of his body. I buried my face in it, and was
half inebriated by its exquisite aroma of young manhood and fresh
hay. He told me he had worn it for two years. No wonder it was
redolent of him. I asked him to let me keep it as a souvenir. He
smiled and said: 'You like it because it