age of 8, when his attention was directed to his own penis.  His nurse, while out walking with him one day, told him that when little boys grow’ up their penes fall off.  The nursery-maid sniggered, and he felt that there must be something peculiar about the penis.  He suffered from; irritability of the prepuce, and the nurse powdered it before he went to sleep.  There was no transition from this to self-abuse.

About the same time he became subject to curious half-waking dreams.  In these he imagined himself the servant of several adult naked sailors; he crouched between their thighs and called himself their dirty pig, and by their orders he performed services for their genitals and buttocks, which he contemplated and handled with relish.  At about the same period, when these visions began to come to him, he casually heard that a man used to come and expose his person before the window of a room where the maids sat; this troubled him vaguely.  Between the age of 8 and 11 he twice took the penis of a cousin into his mouth, after they had slept together; the feeling of the penis pleased him.  When sleeping with another cousin, they used to lie with hands outstretched to cover each other’s penis or nates.  He preferred the nates, but his cousin the penis.  Neither of these cousins was homosexual, and there was no attempt at mutual masturbation.  He was in the habit of playing with five male cousins.  One of these boys was unpopular with the others, and they invented a method of punishing him for supposed offenses.  They sat around the room on chairs, each with his penis exposed, and the boy to be punished went around the room on his knees and took each penis into his mouth in turn.  This was supposed to humiliate him.  It did not lead to masturbation.  On one occasion the child accidentally observed a boy who sat next to him in school playing with his penis and caressing it.  This gave him a powerful, uneasy sensation.  With regard to all these points the subject observes that none of the boys with whom he was connected at this period, and who were exposed to precisely the same influences, became homosexual.

He was himself, from the first, indifferent to the opposite sex.  In early childhood, and up to the age of 13, he had frequent opportunities of closely inspecting the sexual organs of girls, his playfellows.  These roused no sexual excitement.  On the contrary, the smell of the female parts affected him disagreeably.  When he once saw a schoolfellow copulating with a little girl, it gave him a sense of mystical horror.  Nor did the sight of the male organs arouse any particular sensations.  He is, however, of opinion that, living with his sisters in childhood, he felt more curious about his own sex as being more remote from him.  He showed no effeminacy in his preferences for games or work.

He went to a public school.  Here he was provoked by boy friends to masturbate,