manners and beautiful bodies, and take an intelligent interest in the proceedings.  Also they are not always thinking about the money.  Perhaps the Kashmiris come next, though the Chinese run them very close.  Some of the more expensive London women are bearable, but they are such harlots!  The white women in the East are insupportable, and small wonder, for they consist of the dregs of the European and American markets.  My list comprises English, French, German, Italian, Spanish-American, American, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Kaffir, Singhalese, Tamil, Burmese, Malay, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, and Pole.

“I naturally prefer to satisfy myself with a woman, a friend and a lady of my own class; but in the absence of the best I gladly take the next best available, down the scale from a lady for whom I do not care to prostitutes of all classes and colors, men, boys, animals, melons, and masturbation.  I would as cheerfully have connection with my sister, or any other female relative.  I have frequent erotic dreams about the most extraordinary subjects—­male and female relations, casual acquaintances of both sexes, and animals.  When I have got an intrigue in hand with a woman, I have no wish to masturbate, and often restrain myself when I know that I am going to have access before long to prostitutes.  After coitus it takes a long time before I am ready for the next, sometimes two hours; and the first is always very quick, nearly always too quick for the woman.  With a strange woman I have difficulty in maintaining erection at the instant of penetration, and this has often given me trouble.

    “I know that most women like, and few dislike, being touched by
    me.  My favorite colors are green and red, and I can whistle quite
    well.

“I would be very glad to know whether I may be considered sexually normal or not, but I do not desire any opinion on the morality of my acts, for the simple reason that without knowing all the circumstances it would be impossible to judge.  But I cannot help saying that I do not consider anything I have done is wrong in itself, and I am quite certain that I have never harmed in any way any of the ladies with whom I have had relations.  I am certain, if I had made promises which I knew I could not keep, I might have married one of them.  But the result would have been great unhappiness to both, quarrels, and ultimate separation or divorce—­and she realized that as well as I did.  I may seem egotistical in my attitude and assurance toward ladies, but I only speak the honest truth; and I know that No. 6, for instance, has only gratitude and worship to give me for having opened her eyes.  I have made her promise to have intercourse with her husband as soon as she can bear it, and I have satisfied myself that I have not started her on the road to sexual perversion.  So much in self-explanation.  I may add that I do not deliberately seek ‘affaires de coeur,’ and that, when they come my way, I