men on account of their intellectual attraction.  She is herself very active in social and intellectual work.  Her feeling toward marriage has always been one of repugnance.  She can, however, imagine a man whom she could love or marry.

She is attracted to womanly women, sincere, reserved, pure, but courageous in character.  She is not attracted to intellectual women, but at the same time cannot endure silly women.  The physical qualities that attract her most are not so much beauty of face as a graceful, but not too slender, body with beautiful curves.  The women she is drawn to are usually somewhat younger than herself.  Women are much attracted to her, and without any effort on her part.  She likes to take the active part and protecting role with them.  She is herself energetic in character, and with a somewhat neurotic temperament.

She finds sexual satisfaction in tenderly touching, caressing, and kissing the loved one’s body. (There is no cunnilinctus, which she regards with abhorrence.) She feels more tenderness than passion.  There is a high degree of sexual erethism when kissing, but orgasm is rare and is produced by lying on the friend or by the friend lying on her, without any special contact.  She likes being herself kissed, but not so much as taking the active part.

She believes that homosexual love is morally right when it is really part of a person’s nature, and provided that the nature of homosexual love is always made plain to the object of such affection.  She does not approve of it as a mere makeshift, or expression of sensuality, in normal women.  She has sometimes resisted the sexual expression of her feelings, once for years at a time, but always in vain.  The effect on her of loving women is distinctly good, she asserts, both spiritually and physically, while repression leads to morbidity and hysteria.  She has suffered much from neurasthenia at various periods, but under appropriate treatment it has slowly diminished.  The inverted instinct is too deeply rooted to eradicate, but it is well under control.

HISTORY XXXVII.—­Miss M., the daughter of English parents (both musicians), who were both of what is described as “intense” temperament, and there is a neurotic element in the family, though no history of insanity or alcoholism, and she is herself free from nervous disease.  At birth she was very small.  In a portrait taken at the age of 4 the nose, mouth, and ears are abnormally large, and she wears a little boy’s hat.  As a child she did not care for dolls or for pretty clothes, and often wondered why other children found so much pleasure in them.  “As far back as my memory goes,” she writes, “I cannot recall a time when I was not different from other children.  I felt bored when other little girls came to play with me, though I was never rough or boisterous in my sports.”  Sewing was distasteful to her.  Still she