, and that they are nearly all of them
fathers of thriving families, respected and prosperous." But, as
Marro has remarked, the question is not thus settled. Public
distinction by no means necessarily implies any fine degree of
private morality.
Sometimes the manifestations thus appearing in schools or
wherever youths are congregated together are not truly
homosexual, but exhibit a more or less brutal or even sadistic
perversion of the immature sexual instinct. This may be
illustrated by the following narrative concerning a large London
city warehouse: "A youth left my class at the age of 161/2," writes
a correspondent, "to take up an apprenticeship in a large
wholesale firm in G---- Street. Fortunately he went on probation
of three weeks before articling. He came to me at the end of the
first week asking me to intercede with his mother (he had no
father) not to let him return. He told me that almost nightly,
and especially when new fellows came, the youths in his dormitory
(eleven in number) would waylay him, hold him down, and rub his
parts to the tune of some comic song or dance-music.
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