him regarding sexual emissions, only becoming convinced when he actually experienced them; and the facts of reproduction he denied indignantly until he read them in a medical work.  Until he was well over 25 the physical aversion from any thought of reproduction was intense.  He knows other, normal, young men who have felt the same way, but he believes it would be prevented or overcome by sex-education such as is now being introduced in American schools.

Again, as to traces of feminism:  Perhaps two years ago, all impulse to give the love-bite disappeared suddenly.  There has been lately a marked increase of dramatic interest, arising in perfectly natural ways, and without any of the peculiarities noted before.  The childish pleasure in valentines has all gone; M.O. believes that circumstances have lately been more favorable for the development of a more robust estheticism.

For some years he has heard no definite reproach for feminism, though some persons tell his friends that he is “very peculiar.”  He forms many intimate, enduring, non-sexual friendships with both men and women, and he doubts if the peculiarity noted by others is due so much to his homosexuality as it is to his estheticism, skepticism, and the unconventional opinions which he expresses quite indiscreetly at times.  With the improvement in general health, has come the changes that would be expected in food and other matters of daily life.

Resuming his narrative at the point where the earlier communication left it, M.O. says that about a year after that time, the youth of 17 to whom he had considered himself virtually engaged withdrew from the agreement so far as it bore on his own future, but not from the sentimental relation as it existed.  Although separated most of the time by distance, the physical relation was resumed whenever they met.  Subsequently, however, the young man fell in love with a young woman and became engaged to her.  His physical relation with M.O. then ceased, but the friendship otherwise continues strong.

Shortly after the first break in this relation, M.O. became, through the force of quite unusual circumstances, very friendly and intimate with a young woman of considerable charm.  He confided to her his abnormality, and was not repulsed.  To others their relation probably appeared that of lovers, and a painful situation was created by the slander of a jealous woman.  M.O. felt that in honor he must propose marriage to her.  The young woman was non-committal, but invited M.O. to spend several months at her home.  Shortly after his arrival a sad occurrence in his own family compelled him to go away, and they did not meet again for four years.  They corresponded, but less and less often.  His relations with boys continued.

Before his final meeting with her he became acquainted with a woman whom he has since married.  The acquaintance began in a wholly