nudity had no attraction for him, while the beating aroused his indignation against the person who administered it.  T. knew a boy and girl of about his own age whose imaginations dwelt somewhat morbidly upon whipping.  The three used to talk together about such chastisement, and the little girl liked to read “stories that had whippings in them.”  None of these children delighted in cruelty; the fascination in the theme of castigation seemed to be in imagining the spectacle of the exposed nates, though actual witnessing of the whipping made them angry at the time.

Accustomed to watch a young sister being bathed, T. had no distinct curiosity concerning the differences in sex until the age of 9.  About this time he asked his father where babies came from, and was told to be quiet.  When he persisted in the inquiry his father threatened to box his ears.  His mother told him subsequently that doctors brought babies to mothers.  He credited the story so far as to carefully watch the doctor who came when his mother “was going to have a new baby,” in the hope of seeing a bundle in his arm.  T. was 9 when he interrogated a servant-girl of 16 about babies and their origin.  She laughed and said that one day she would tell him how children came.  One Sunday this servant took T. for a country walk and initiated him in sexual intercourse, telling him he was too young to be a father, but that was the way babies were made.  The girl took him into a field, saying she would show him how to do something which would make him “feel as though he was in heaven,” informing him that she had often done this with young men.  She then succeeded in causing erection and instructed him how to act.  His feeling at the time was one of disgust; the appearance and odor of the female genitalia repelled him.  Afterward, however, he wished to repeat the experience with girls of his own age.  Finding the boy unresponsive, the girl took the masculine position and embraced him with great passion.  T. can recall the expression of the girl’s face, the perspiration on her forehead, and the whispered query whether it pleased him.  The embrace lasted for about ten minutes, when the girl said it had “done her good.”  Later the same day they met a girl cousin of this servant about 10 or 12 years old.  The three went to a lonely part of the seashore.  The servant there suggested that T. should repeat the act with the little girl.  T. was too shy, though the girl seemed quite willing and experienced.  The older girl told the younger to keep watch a few yards away, while she again brought about intercourse in the same way.  The servant told T. not to tell anyone.  Intercourse with the servant was never repeated after that day; from shame he kept the promise for many years.

After this episode T. began to speculate about sexual matters and to observe the coupling of dogs with newly acquired interest.  At 10 years he often lay awake, listening to a woman of 25