other animal, succeed in penetrating properly.  I afterward did the same with other mares and with a certain cow whenever I got a safe opportunity, which was not as often as I could have wished.  I have not had connection with an animal for about ten years, but would have no objection to doing so, and feel sure I could perform the act properly now.  After I left school at 17, I occasionally had longings for boys, but it was the exception and not the rule.  I continued to masturbate, but not to excess, and used to make ineffectual efforts to stop it, but never succeeded for very long.  When I was confirmed, at the age of 15, I became intensely religious, and was so remorseful at my first lapse from virtue that I burnt my leg with a red-hot poker, and I bear the scar still.  On leaving school I went to Germany and there had my first coitus with a woman, a fat old German who gave me very little satisfaction.  My next, a Jewess, gave me more than I asked for, in the shape of a soft chancre.  In my ignorance I never had it treated, but it must have been very mild, for it disappeared of its own accord.  When cramming in England I occasionally went home with a prostitute, but did not care much about them and could not afford good ones.  On one occasion I was impotent.  It may have been through drink, but it disgusted me with myself.  I liked seeing the women naked, and always insisted that they should strip, especially the breasts, which I liked large and full.  I had not learned to kiss on the lips, and had no desire to kiss the body, except the breasts, which I was generally too shy to do.  But as I nearly always wore a condom and found penetration difficult I did not much enjoy the actual coitus.  I am fully convinced that if women had been more accessible, if I had not thought myself bound to use preventives in self-defense, and if the act had not been looked upon with such disfavor by those in authority over me, I should have masturbated less or not at all, and would not have been tempted to bestiality.  When I was 22 I had coitus with a girl who was not a prostitute for the first time.  I was violently excited and enjoyed it more than anything I had yet experienced, in spite of the facts that she would not undress and insisted on withdrawal before emission.  On one other occasion only have I had coitus with a non-professional unmarried woman.  Shortly after this I caught syphilis from a girl of the streets.  I was circumcised and stayed in a private hospital for six weeks.  It never went beyond the primary stage, and I have felt no ill effects from it, except that I have got a hydrocele in the right testicle.  Of course, this incident necessitated the use of a condom on every occasion, and it greatly spoiled my pleasure.  About this time a brother-officer older than myself made advances to me.  He compared me to a Greek statue, and wanted to kiss me.  I would have nothing to do with him, but was glad to have his confessions of homosexuality and somewhat