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His arms are weak and flabby
(feminine, he thinks), but the legs muscular. As a boy of 14 he
could walk forty miles with ease, and he played football till
near the age of 45. He is considered manly in character and
tastes, but is easily moved to tears under strong excitement.
There is no information as to the type of man to whom he is
attracted. I may observe, however, that the analytical chemist
who first evoked S.W.'s admiration was well known to me some
thirty years later, as he was my own teacher in chemistry. At
that time he was an elderly man of attractive appearance and
character, sympathetic and winning in manner to an almost
feminine extent.
S.W. has never felt the slightest sexual attraction toward the
opposite sex. The first indications of inverted feeling were at
the age of 6 or 7. Watching his father's pupils, boys of 13 or
14, from the windows, he speculated on what their organs of
generation were like. "In connection with a girl," he writes, "I
should no more have thought of such a thing than in the case of a
block of marble.


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