ere a very curious case of purely psychical but
complete inversion of the sexual personality, combined with complete
sexual anaesthesia:

A man, aged 22, the son of an inebriate, with one imbecile
sister. Of delicate constitution, but very intelligent, he was
possessed since infancy with the idea that he was a girl,
although his genital organs were properly formed and were
normally developed at puberty. He had a horror of the society of
boys, and of all masculine work, while he was quite happy in
performing all the household duties of a woman. An irresistible
obsession urged him to dress himself as a woman, and neither
contempt, ridicule, nor punishment could cure him of it.
Attempts to give him employment as a boy in a small town failed
completely. His girlish manners made him suspected by the
police, who took him for a girl dressed in boy's clothes, and
threatened to arrest him. When he was compelled to put on male
attire he consoled himself with wearing a woman's chemise and
corset underneath.

I carefully examined this individual and found him affected with
complete sexual anaesthesia. He had a horror of everything
connected with the sexual appetite, but the idea of sexual
intercourse with men was still more repugnant than that of
normal coitus with women. Although the testicles and penis
appeared absolutely normal, he never had erections. His voice
was high pitched and his whole manner suggested that of a
eunuch.

This case is very instructive, for it clearly shows how the
psycho-sexual personality may be predetermined by heredity in the
brain alone, independently of the sexual organs, and even act without
a trace of sexual sensation or appetite. This was undoubtedly a case
of alcoholic blastophthoria and not ordinary heredity.

Krafft-Ebing describes the following scene, taken from a Berlin
journal, dated February, 1894, which gives a good idea of the manners
and customs of the homosexual fraternity:

"_The misogynist's ball._ Almost all the social elements of Berlin
have their club or meeting place--the fat, the bald, the bachelors,
the widowers--why not the misogynists? This variety of the human
species, whose society is hardly edifying, but whose psychology is
peculiar, held a fancy dress ball a few days ago. The sale, or rather
the distribution of tickets was kept very private. Their meeting place
is a well-know