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and to show him the horizons which he can attain by dint of 

 effort and of will. If chastity were a virtue in better favor I 

 should commend it to the physicians as a more effective remedy 

 than to send the invert to a " puella " to prepare him for mar- 

 riage and paternity. It would be better not to increase the 

 number of husbands and fathers who are inverts or perverts. 

 Instead of pointing out to the invert the normal state, which is 

 for him an impossible goal, he should be made to hope to at- 

 tain one day a state far above the normal. But how is this 

 possible without honoring chastity a little more ? As for the 

 invert who wishes to marry in order to have children, his de- 

 sire is almost criminal ; if he marries for social convenience, to 

 reinstate himself or to please his family, he ought to marry a 

 woman older than himself, a woman of the world, who under- 

 stands everything and accepts the situation. Even then the fu- 

 ture is very uncertain. 



The women of today are interesting themselves a great 

 deal in masculine unisexuality. A great deal is said about it at 

 present ; the women are very well informed on this subject, not 

 only the unisexual women (who are all accomplices of the uni- 

 sexual men in all degrees from platonism to abjection), but also 

 honorable women. 



The women have contributed not a little to the unceremo- 

 niousness of the masculine unisexuality of the world. Arrived 

 at a certain age, the women who no longer attract the attention 

 of true men turn to the unisexual men who pay them attention 

 for the sake of effect. Thus it is that inverts and perverts, who 

 ought to be shut up in the insane asylums or penitentiaries, enter 

 society and are there centres of infection. 



I have sometimes asked myself if the serious writers who 

 have treated of sexual inversion should not possibly be a little 

 more reserved and prudish and not quite so innocent. They 

 have all successively described the practices previously described 

 by Martial and Petronius and boasted of by Verlaine and 



