mutual masturbation.  He cannot remember the beginning of his sexual speculation as a child, nor how he learned masturbation.  When he was 13 he used to discuss erotic matters with a schoolfellow who was in the habit of engaging in vulvar intercourse with a girl of his own age.  The intercourse was practised on the way home from school, and in a standing posture.  B. embraced the girl in the same way.  He is not interested in the psychological aspects of the sexual emotion.  Although his sex passion was early kindled, he never had commerce with prostitutes.  He thinks that his youthful experiences had no ill effect upon him morally, mentally, or physically.  He practised masturbation in moderation till he married, at the age of 31.

HISTORY IV.—­“I can remember” (writes the subject) “trotting away as a youngster about 5 with another boy to ‘see a girl’s legs’; the idea emanated from the other boy, but I was vaguely interested.  How or where we were going to see the object in question I do not remember nor anything further than the intention.  When 6 or 7 I remember being put to bed with the nurse girl and feeling her bare arm with undoubted sexual excitement; I remember, too, gradually feeling along the arm very cautiously, fearing the girl would wake and being bitterly disappointed to find it was merely the arm.  I am almost certain I had then no idea of sex, but the disappointment was actual.

“These are the only early experiences of the sort I can remember.  When about 9 I had others.  On the coast of the north of England, which had then very few visitors and seemed to me very remote, I lived in a farm-house and used to assist the girls of the farm in looking after young cattle.  These girls certainly instilled sexual ideas, though I did not realize them with precision.  They used to talk about things a good many of which, I can now see, I did not then understand as they did.  I liked to see these girls wading with their dresses tucked up.  About this time I fell passionately in love with a girl cousin, but do not remember having any sensual ideas in regard to her.  I cannot say that these early experiences had any influence on my later sexual development so far as I am consciously aware.  I have always remembered them vaguely, never with sexual excitement.

“Sexual dreams took place first at about the age of 13; there was then emission and sensation in sleep.  These were, however, not much associated with distinctly sexual dreams.  All that I recall after them was the sensation, which, however, I did not even then absolutely localize.  Masturbation was undoubtedly the direct result of these dreams.  It was tried at first tentatively, out of curiosity to determine if the sensation of the dream could be so reproduced.  Sexual dreams, such as I have described, occurred frequently, although I cannot say at what interval.  I have never experienced the slightest attraction for the same sex.”