Ulrichs reports that in the Austrian army lectures on homosexual
vices are regularly given to cadets and conscripts (_Memnon_, p.
26). A soldier who had left the army told a friend of mine that
he and many of his comrades had taken to homosexual indulgences
when abroad on foreign service in a lonely station. He kept the
practice up in England 'because the women of his class were so
unattractive.' The captain of an English man-of-war said that he
was always glad to send his men on shore after a long cruise at
sea, never feeling sure how far they might not all go if left
without women for a certain space of time." I may add that A.
Hamon (_La France Sociale et Politique_, 1891, pp. 653-55; also
in his _Psychologie du Militaire Professional_, chapter x) gives
details as to the prevalence of homosexuality in the French army,
especially in Algeria; he regards it as extremely common,
although the majority are free. A fragment of a letter by General
Lamoriciere (speaking of Marshal Changarnier) is quoted: _En
Afrique nous en etions tous, mais lui en est reste ici_.
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