A brother
is more definitely inverted. B.O. has never had any definitely
homosexual relationships, although he has always been devoted to
boys; nor has he had any relationships with women. "As regards
women," he says, "I feel I have not the patience to try and
understand them; they are petulant and changeable," etc. He
objects to being called "abnormal," and thinks that people like
himself are "_extremely_ common."
"I have never wanted to kiss boys," he writes, "nor to handle
them in any way except to put my arm around them at their studies
and at other similar times. Of course, with really little boys,
it is different, but boys and girls under 14 seem to me much
alike, and I can love either equally well. As to any sort of
sexual connection between myself and one of my own sex, I cannot
think of it otherwise than with disgust. I can imagine great
pleasure in having connection with a woman, but their natures do
not attract me. Indeed, my liking for my own sex seems to consist
almost entirely in a preference for the masculine character, and
the feeling that as an object to _look at_ the male body is
really more beautiful than the female.
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