than have injured them.  The boys got on well with me.  I was never weak with them, and I was able to allow all kinds of familiarities without any loss of respect.  The older boys usually, out of class, called me by my Christian name, and I remember one writing to ask me whether he might do so, as it made him feel ‘nearer’ to me.  A few of the lads I of course loved with special devotion.  They kissed me and loved to have me embrace them.  One of these was, I now know, pure uranian, and there was in his case certainly some sexual response, but though I often slept with him, when he was a lad of 17 and 18, there was never any idea in our minds of any sexual act.  We are still warm friends, and always kiss when we meet.  Looking back upon those days, I feel that I was a little inclined to pass on from one love to another, but each was a genuine devotion, and involved real hard work on the lad’s behalf.  And I know that where the lad stuck to me into manhood a real tenderness and love remain still.

“While teaching I made the acquaintance of a non-conformist minister, who, though happily married, had certainly some homogenic tendencies.  He was most devoted to boys and helped me with regard to some difficult cases.  It was the difficult cases that always attracted me.  I had to punish these lads and my friend recommended spanking with the hand on the bare buttocks.  I mention that I adopted this method, because it might have been thought specially dangerous to me.  It certainly never produced in me the remotest suggestion of any sexual act, though it did sometimes produce a slight amount of sexual excitement.  I disregarded this, or put it out of my mind, as I found the method most efficacious.  It was capable of great variation of intensity, and the boys were always ready to joke about it.  I never came across a case where any sexual excitement was produced by it.  The boys whom I had to be most ‘down’ on almost always, however, grew fonder of me.  There may be a slight and normal masochistic tendency in most boys, and perhaps the erogenic character of the buttocks has something to do with the development of affection.  If so, I am inclined to regard it as normal and useful rather than otherwise, for in my experience no undesirable result was ever produced.  But then, of course, there was no playing with the business; that might, I am sure, in some cases be decidedly injurious.

“One experience of my schoolmastering days is, I think, important in its bearing upon general sexual psychology.  I always noticed that during the term I was specially free from ‘wet dreams.’  What is noteworthy is this:  During term there was never anything more than a very partial sexual expression of any feeling of mine, such expression indeed as was wholly inevitable.  There was therefore no actual loss of semen, and it seems clear that the ‘wet dreams’ were not due to mere physical pressure.  The psychic satisfaction of love in this case made the complete