Much of the pleasure of sexual talk among
boys I believe to be due to the spurious interest aroused by the
fact that it is forbidden fruit, and involves risk if caught. It
seems to me that frankness is far more moral than suggestion. I
would not 'expurgate' school editions of great authors; the frank
obscenity of parts of Shakespeare is far less immoral than the
prurient prudishness which declines to print it, but numbers the
lines in such a way that the boy can go home and look up the
omitted passage in a complete edition, with a distinct sense of
guilt, which is where the harm comes in."
It is probable that only a small proportion of homosexual boys in
schools can properly be described as "vicious." A. Hoche,
describing homosexuality in German schools ("Zuer Frage der
forensischen Beurteilung sexuellen Vergehen," _Neurologisches
Centralblatt_, 1896, No. 2), and putting together communications
received from various medical men regarding their own youthful
experiences at school, finds relationships of the kind very
common, usually between boys of different ages and
school-classes.
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