CASE HISTORIES 73 



of mind that he had his first heterosexual experience. After it he 

 actually hated the prostitute. He gladly went away to war. 



He usually did feel hate for a prostitute after coitus and 

 sometimes said he never enjoyed intercourse with women as much 

 as with men. At other times he claimed he preferred normal 

 coitus, but was much afraid of venereal disease after once having 

 contracted gonorrhea, and that he committed pederasty on both 

 sexes and allowed fellatio merely because they entailed no danger 

 of disease. He indulged in active homosexual acts about once a 

 week. If his companion refused intercourse, he masturbated 

 against him. Once he had trouble in arousing sexual feeling in 

 a boy and to stimulate him started fellatio on him, but had a 

 revulsion of feeling and quit. This attempt at fellatio had 

 bothered his conscience a great deal. With that exception he had 

 never taken the female role in homosexual intercourse. Taking 

 the male role he considered permissible and he felt no remorse. 



He had relations with his wife before they were married, and 

 she became pregnant. She threatened suicide, and he married 

 her out of pity to protect her good name. Another man, a lawyer 

 whom he regarded as a better man than he, had also been paying 

 her attention and he reasoned that since she had ceded readily 

 to him she might have also to this superior man. Three months 

 after the wedding a boy was born. The child resembled Purdy. 



He had only one real "love" coitus with his wife he said, 

 the others were nothing more than relief of passion. Once he 

 committed cunnilingus on her, and she committed much fellatio 

 on him but refused to allow pederasty. When he got to feeling 

 that his employer was giving him all the hardest jobs and he 

 needed all his strength to make a living, he stopped sexual inter- 

 course altogether. Then he began to suspect his wife of getting 

 it elsewhere. He was sure his employer had relations with her 

 and suspected him of sending a young man to board next door 

 just to win his friendship and thus get the freedom of his home 

 and opportunity to seduce his wife. And this young man he had 

 considered his bosom friend. He wanted to murder all three of 

 them, his wife and the two men. Doubts whether he was really 

 the father of the boy haunted him again. 



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