HISTORY XXVIII.—­English, aged 40, surgeon.  Sexual experiences began early, about the age of 10, when a companion induced him to play at intercourse with their sisters.  He experienced no pleasure.  A little later a servant-girl began to treat him affectionately and at last called him into her bedroom when she was partially undressed, fondled and kissed his member, and taught him to masturbate her.  On subsequent occasions she attempted a simulation of intercourse, which gave her satisfaction, but failed to induce emission in him.  On returning to school mutual masturbation was practised with schoolfellows, and the first emission took place at the age of 14.

On leaving school he became a slave to the charms of women, and had frequent coitus about the age of 17, but he preferred masturbating girls and especially in persuading girls of good position, to whom the experience was entirely novel, to allow him to take liberties with them.  At 25 he became engaged, and mutual masturbation was practised to excess during the engagement; after marriage connection generally took place twice every twenty-four hours until pregnancy.

“At this time,” he writes, “I stayed at the house of an old school-fellow, due of my lovers of old days.  There were so many guests that I shared my friend’s bedroom.  The sight of his body gave rise to lustful feelings, and when the light was out I stole across to his bed.  He made no objection, and we passed the night in mutual masturbation.  We passed the next fortnight together, and I never took the same pleasure in coitus with my wife, though I did my duty.  She died five years later, and I devoted myself heart and soul to my friend until his death by accident last year.  Since then I have lost all interest in life.”

I am indebted for this case to a well-known English alienist, who remarks that the patient is fairly healthy to look at, but with neurasthenia and tendency to melancholia, and neurotic temperament.  The body is masculine and pubic hair abundant.  One testicle shows wasting.

HISTORIES XXIX AND XXX.—­I give the following narrative in the words of an intimate friend of one of the cases in question:  “My attention was first drawn to the study of inversion—­though I then regarded all forms of it as depraving and abominable—­at a public school, where in our dormitory a boy of 15 initiated his select friends into the secrets of mutual masturbation, which he had learned from his brother, a midshipman.  I gave no heed to this at the time, though I remembered it in after-years when immersed in Plato, Lucretius, and the Epicurean writers.  But my attention was riveted to it at the age of 20, when I spent a holiday with A., a companion with whom I was, and still am, on terms of great friendship.  We enjoyed many things in common, studied together and discussed most unconventional matters, but not this.  Previously we had always occupied separate sleeping