down there.  Gradually, through seeing a friend happily married, I have grown to a more normal view of things.  I am very critical of men and have never met one liberal-minded and just enough to please me.  Perhaps if I did I might take a perfectly healthy view of things.”

In course of time various devices had been adopted to heighten sexual excitement when indulging in masturbation.  Thus, for instance, she found that the effects of sexual excitement are increased by keeping the bladder full.  But the chief method which she had devised for heightening and prolonging the preliminary excitement consisted in wearing tight stays (as a rule, she wears loose stays) and in painting her face.  She cannot herself explain this.  Self-excitement is completed by friction, or sometimes by the introduction of a piece of wood into the vagina.  She finds that, the more frequently she masturbates, the more easily she is excited.  Spontaneous sexual feeling is strongest before and after the menstrual period; not so much so during the periods.

There are various faint traces of homosexuality, it may be gathered, in the history of this subject’s sexual development.  Recently these have come to a climax in the formation of a homosexual relationship with a girl friend.  This relationship has given her great pleasure and satisfaction.  She does not, however, regard herself as being a really inverted person.

There have been vivid sexual dreams from about 17 (apparently about the period of the relationship with the lover).  These dreams have not, however, had special reference to persons of either sex.

Apart from the influence of books and pictures already mentioned, she remarks that she is sexually affected by the personal odor of a beloved person, but is not consciously affected by any other odors.

HISTORY XI.—­Widower, aged 40 years.  Surgeon.  “My experience of sexual matters began early.  When I was about 10 years of age a boy friend who was staying with us told me that his sister made him uncover his person, with which she played and encouraged him to do the same for her.  He said it was great fun, and suggested that we should take two of my sisters into an old barn and repeat his experience on them.  This we did, and tried all we could to have connection with them; they were nothing loath and did all they could to help us, but nothing was effected and I experienced no pleasure in it.

“When I went back to school I attracted the attention of one of the big boys who slept in the same room with me; he came into my bed and began to play with my member, saying that it was the usual thing to do and would give me pleasure.  I did not feel any pleasure, but I liked the attention, and rather enjoyed playing with his member, which was of large size, and surrounded by thick pubic hair.  After I had played with him for some time I was surprised at his having