temperament.  He is mentally bright, though not highly educated, a keen sportsman, and in general a good example of an all-around healthy Englishman.

While very affectionate, his sexual desires are not strongly developed on the physical side, and seem never to have been so.  He sometimes masturbated about the age of puberty, but never afterward.  He does not appear to have well-marked erotic dreams.  There used to be some attraction toward women, though it was never strong.  At the age of 26 he was seduced by a woman and had connection with her once.  Afterward he had reason to think she had played him false in various ways.  This induced the strongest antipathy, not only to this woman, but to all marriageable women.  A year after this episode homosexual feeling first became clear and defined.  He is now 33, and feels the same antipathy to women; he hates even to speak of marriage.

There has only been one really strong attraction, toward a man of about the same age, but of different social class, and somewhat a contrast to him, both physically and mentally.  So far as the physical act is concerned this relationship is not definitely sexual, but it is of the most intimate possible kind, and the absence of the physical act is probably largely due to circumstances.  At the same time there is no conscious desire for the act for its own sake, and the existing harmony and satisfaction are described as very complete.  There is no repulsion to the physical side, and he regards the whole relationship as quite natural.

HISTORY II.—­B.O., English, aged 35, missionary abroad.  A brother is more definitely inverted.  B.O. has never had any definitely homosexual relationships, although he has always been devoted to boys; nor has he had any relationships with women.  “As regards women,” he says, “I feel I have not the patience to try and understand them; they are petulant and changeable,” etc.  He objects to being called “abnormal,” and thinks that people like himself are “extremely common.”

“I have never wanted to kiss boys,” he writes, “nor to handle them in any way except to put my arm around them at their studies and at other similar times.  Of course, with really little boys, it is different, but boys and girls under 14 seem to me much alike, and I can love either equally well.  As to any sort of sexual connection between myself and one of my own sex, I cannot think of it otherwise than with disgust.  I can imagine great pleasure in having connection with a woman, but their natures do not attract me.  Indeed, my liking for my own sex seems to consist almost entirely in a preference for the masculine character, and the feeling that as an object to look at the male body is really more beautiful than the female.  When any strong temptations to sexual passion come over me in my waking moments, it is of women I think.  On the other hand, I have to confess