The boy who
could choose the fastest time had the privilege of performing the
operation, and most had to be the victim in turn unless new boys
entered, when they would sometimes be subjected to this for a
week. This boy, having been brought up strictly, was shocked,
dazed, and alarmed; but they stopped him from calling out, and he
dared not report it. Most boys entered direct on their
apprenticeship without probation, and had no chance to get out. I
procured the boy's release from the place and gave the manager to
understand what went on." In such a case as this it has usually
happened that a strong boy of brutal and perverse instincts and
some force of character initiates proceedings which the others
either fall into with complacency or are too weak to resist.
Max Dessoir[127] came to the conclusion that "an undifferentiated sexual
feeling is normal, on the average, during the first years of
puberty,--i.e., from 13 to 15 in boys and from 12 to 14 in girls,--while
in later years it must be regarded as pathological." He added very truly
that in this early period the sexual emotion has not become centered in
the sexual organs.
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