As the
sexual emotions become stronger, and as the lad leaves school or college
to mix with men and women in the world, the instinct usually turns into
the normal channel, in which channel the instincts of the majority of boys
have been directed from the earliest appearance of puberty, if not
earlier. But a certain proportion remain insensitive to the influence of
women, and these may be regarded as true sexual inverts. Some of them are
probably individuals of somewhat undeveloped sexual instincts. The members
of this group are of some interest psychologically, although from the
comparative quiescence of their sexual emotions they have received little
attention. The following communication which I have received from a
well-accredited source is noteworthy from this point of view:--
"The following facts may possibly be of interest to you, though
my statement of them is necessarily general and vague. I happen
to know intimately three cases of men whose affections have
chiefly been directed exclusively to persons of their own sex.
The first, having practised masturbation as a boy, and then for
some ten years ceased to practise it (to such an extent that he
even inhibited his erotic dreams), has since recurred to it
deliberately (at about fortnightly intervals) as a substitute for
copulation, for which he has never felt the least desire.
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