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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

One of these
boys was unpopular with the others, and they invented a method of
punishing him for supposed offenses. They sat around the room on
chairs, each with his penis exposed, and the boy to be punished
went around the room on his knees and took each penis into his
mouth in turn. This was supposed to humiliate him. It did not
lead to masturbation. On one occasion the child accidentally
observed a boy who sat next to him in school playing with his
penis and caressing it. This gave him a powerful, uneasy
sensation. With regard to all these points the subject observes
that none of the boys with whom he was connected at this period,
and who were exposed to precisely the same influences, became
homosexual.
He was himself, from the first, indifferent to the opposite sex.
In early childhood, and up to the age of 13, he had frequent
opportunities of closely inspecting the sexual organs of girls,
his playfellows. These roused no sexual excitement. On the
contrary, the smell of the female parts affected him
disagreeably.


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