of their outward appearance, their physique, or their dress from normal men.  They are athletic, masculine in habit, frank in manner, passing through society year after year without arousing a suspicion of their inner temperament; were it not so, society would long ago have had its eyes opened to the amount of perverted sexuality it harbors.”  These lines were written, not in opposition to the more subtle distinctions pointed out above, but in refutation of the vulgar error which confuses the typical invert with the painted and petticoated creatures who appear in police-courts from time to time, and whose portraits are presented by Lombroso, Legludic, etc.  On another occasion the same writer remarked, while expressing general agreement with the idea of a pseudosexual attraction:  “The liaison is by no means always sought and begun by the person who is abnormally constituted.  I mean that I can cite cases of decided males who have made up to inverts, and have found their happiness in the reciprocated passion.  One pronounced male of this sort, again, once said to me, ‘men are so much more affectionate than women.’ [Precisely the same words were used by one of my subjects.] Also, the liaison springs up now and then quite accidentally through juxtaposition, when it is difficult to say whether either at the outset had an inverted tendency of any marked quality.  In these cases the sexual relation seems to come on as a heightening of comradely affection, and is found to be pleasurable—­sometimes, I think, discovered to be safe as well as satisfying.  On the other hand, so far as I know, it is extremely rare to observe a permanent liaison between two pronounced inverts.”

The tendency to pseudosexual attraction in the homosexual would thus seem to involve a preference for normal persons.  How far this is the case it seems difficult to state positively.  Usually, one may say, an invert falls in love (exactly as in the case of a normal person) without any intellectual calculation as to the temperamental ability to return the affection which the object of his love may possess.  Naturally, however, there cannot be any adequate return of the affection in the absence of an actual or latent homosexual disposition.  On this point an American correspondent (H.C.), with a wide knowledge of inversion in many lands, writes:  “One of your correspondents declares that inverts long for sexual relations with normal men rather than with one another.  If this be true, I have never once found it exemplified in all my wide experience of inverts; and I have submitted his assertion to more than 50.  These have replied invariably that unless a man is himself homosexual, nearly all the pleasure of fellatio is absent.  The fact is, the majority of inverts flock together not from exigency, but from choice.  The mere sexual act is, if anything, far less the sole object between inverts than it is between normal men and women.