with my dream-charmer, I now almost invariably emit and awake before intromission has taken place.  There has been no alternation comparable to this in the performance of the act while I am awake.

“As regards my physique I should mention that all my reflexes are very brisk, though I am only slightly ticklish in the ordinary sense of the term.  I sweat easily and am very shy, not only with women, but with any strangers.  I have, however, trained myself not to show this.  About averagely passionate, I should say, and extremely critical where women are concerned, the latter quality often keeping me chaste for months at a time.”

HISTORY VIII.—­“When I was about 8 years old” (states the lady who is the subject of the present observation) “I remember that, with several other children, we used to play in an old garden at being father and mother, unfastening our drawers and bringing the sexual parts together, as we imagined married people to do, but no sexual feelings were aroused, nor did the boys have erections.”  When about 10 years old she became conscious of a pleasurable sensation associated with the smell of leather, which has ever since persisted.  At that age she was sometimes left to wait in the office of a wholesale business house full of leather-bound ledgers.  She did not then notice the sensation particularly, and was certainly not conscious of any connection with sexual emotion.  Menstruation was established at 131/2 years.  Distinct sexual feelings were first observed a few months later.  “The first feelings of love which I ever felt were at the age of 14 for a nice, manly boy of my own age, who often came to our house.  He liked me, but was not in love with me.  It was very seldom that he would sit by me and hold my hand, as I wished him.  This went on till I was about 17, when he went to the university.  After his first term he came back and was then attracted to me; but, though I loved him very much, I was too proud to show it.  When he tried to kiss me, I resisted, though I longed for it.  Thinking I was greatly offended, he apologized, which only made me angry.  All these years I was worshiping at his shrine and mixed him up with all my ideas of life.”  Whenever she was near him she experienced physical sensations, with moistening of the vulva.  This continued till she was about 20, but the object of these emotions never again attempted any advances.

At 19 she became engaged to someone else.  At the beginning she was physically indifferent to her lover, but when he first kissed her she became greatly excited.  The engagement, however, was soon broken off from absence of strong affection on either side and chiefly, it would seem, from the cooling of the lover’s ardor.  She thinks he would have been more strongly attached to her if she had been colder to him, or pretended to be, instead of responding with simplicity and frankness.

During the next few years little occurred.