[200] It is the grosser forms of perversion which are first revealed in every field.  In the first edition of this Study the predominance of pedicatio was still greater; it is not practised by any of the subjects of the Histories added to the present edition, though several see no objection to it.

[201] Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. viii, 1906, p. 712.

[202] Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualitaet, p. 276 et seq.

[203] “Men,” remarks Q., “tend to fall in love with boys or youths, boys or youths with grown men, feminine natures with virile natures and vice versa, and different races with each other.”

[204] Stubbes, in his Anatomy of Abuses, affirmed that “players and play-haunters in their secret conclaves play the Sodomites,” and refers to some recent examples of men who had been desperately enamoured of player-boys thus clad in women’s apparel, so far as to solicit them by words, by letters, even actually to abuse them.  Later on, in 1633, Prynne, in his Histrio-Mastix (part 1, p. 208 et seq.), strongly condemned “this putting on of woman’s array” by actors on the same ground, and adds that he has heard credibly reported of a scholar of Balliol College that he was violently enamoured of a boy-player.  In Japan, again where, as in China, woman’s parts on the stage are taken by men (not always youths), the homosexuality of these players became, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, so notorious that they constituted a class requiring special regulation as Joro, or prostitutes.

[205] This was remarked by even the earliest modern writers on homosexuality, like Hoessli.  See Hirschfeld, “Vom Wesen der Liebe,” Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. viii, 1906, p. 124 et seq.

[206] Similarly Numa Praetorius asserts (Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. viii, p. 732) that even the most virile homosexual men exhibit feminine traits, and adds that we could scarcely expect it to be otherwise when we find how constantly homosexual women show masculine traits.

[207] Naecke, “Die Diagnose der Homosexualitaet,” Neurologisches Centralblatt, April 16, 1908.

[208] So also among American boarding-school girls.  Thus Margaret Otis (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, June, 1913) has described the attraction which negro girls exert on white girls at school.  The correspondence of these lovers, and sometimes their method of sex gratification, may occasionally be of an even coarsely passionate nature.

[209] See “Sexual Selection in Man,” vol. iv of these Studies.

[210] Hirschfeld (Die Homosexualitaet, p. 283) found that 55 per cent. of inverts are attracted to qualities unlike their own, and 45 per cent. to qualities resembling their own, without regard to whether these qualities belonged to the secondary sexual sphere.  It may be added that as regards the age of the persons they are attracted to, Hirschfeld (p. 281) admits two main groups, each including about 45 per cent. of the homosexual; ephebophils, attracted to youths between 14 and 21, and androphils, attracted to adults in the prime of life.  This division, as may be seen from the histories included in the present volume, seems to hold good of British and American inverts.