“In Bavaria I found the love and peace ’which passeth all understanding.’  This love and friendship without anything of a physically intimate nature brought me back from the ’deep black gulf’ to which I was swiftly floating.  When I met my friend I was nearly at the end of my tether.  What his love and friendship has done for me, together with Freud’s psychoanalytical system, nobody will ever know.

“Since being in Berlin, a town I like very much, a new life has opened for me, a life where one lives as one likes if one does not have to do with young boys.  Here are homosexual baths, pensions, restaurants, and hotels, where you can go with one of your own sex at a certain fee per hour.  Berlin is a revelation.  But since being here I find the physical erotic side of my nature is little excited.  I suppose it is the old story of ’forbidden fruit.’

“My parents kept a very hospitable home.  The last two years in Sweden I was never at home.  I hated society and knew much too much about the private histories of those who came to my home.  They all belonged to the highest society.  The highest society and the lowest are very much alike.  Of course my parents knew nothing about these people.  When I told my mother a great deal of private history of people who came to our house, she was thunderstruck and could at last understand my contempt for so-called good society.  I have visited in later years only in artistic and theatrical circles; I consider that class of people more natural than the other class and much more kind-hearted.

“My life has quite another side, the mystic side.  But that would be a much longer story than this.  Suffice it to say, I am of a highly sensitive nature, gifted with second sight.” [A detailed record of the subject’s visions, premonitions of death of acquaintances, etc., has been furnished by him.]

    “I tried on four occasions to commit suicide, but I now see there
    is nothing to be gained by doing so.

“Two years ago I told my parents about my sexual condition.  It was a frightful blow to them.  My father had the circumstances explained to him; he never understood the matter and never discussed it with me.  Had I told him earlier I feel quite certain that, with his despotic nature, he would have put me in a madhouse.  My mother and sister have treated me very kindly always.  My brother has disowned me.”

HISTORY XVI.—­Irish, aged 36; knows of nothing unusual in his ancestry.  His tastes are masculine in every respect.  He is strong, healthy, and fond of exercises and sports.  The sexual instincts are abnormally developed; he confesses to an, enormous appetite for almost everything,—­food, drink, smoking, and all the good things of life.

At about the age of 14 he practised masturbation with other boys of the same age, and also had much pleasure in being in bed with an