9O CASE HISTORIES 



It seems that even this was too much for him to do without 

 surveillance, for after seven months he was arrested and taken to 

 a hospital with body and clothes in filthy condition, and physically 

 much run down. He said he had worked long hours and cooked 

 his own meals in a vacant lot. On admission to St. Elizabeths he 

 showed considerable mental deterioration. 



Sex life: As a child he slept between his parents in the same 

 bed, but had no recollections of having seen them in coitus. At 

 puberty he got an erection on seeing his mother accidentally ex- 

 pose her leg, and he hid and masturbated. She caught him at it 

 and whipped him. The small negro boys of the vicinity per- 

 formed perverse acts and offered themselves to the white boys 

 for five or ten cents. His father had a negro boy working for 

 him whom he had " bought out of jail " in which he had been 

 incarcerated for attempting coitus on his mother (according to 

 patient). The patient tried pederasty on this boy and, failing, 

 had the boy commit fellatio on him. His father found them 

 doing it and whipped them. Never again did he commit a per- 

 version. 



His first coitus was at sixteen with a married second cousin 

 who invited him. This happened several times. At nineteen he 

 began going with prostitutes. At twenty he again saw his mother 

 unwittingly expose herself and got an erection. Not long after, 

 he returned one night unexpectedly and surprised his parents in 

 intercourse. This seemed to have been a trauma. He felt that 

 he didn't belong there any longer and never felt at home again. 

 It was then he joined the army. He claimed not to have mastur- 

 bated more than a dozen times in his life, but he had coitus about 

 once a week when possible. While in the army he married, and 

 enjoyed coitus with his wife until after the birth of their child. 

 She was then apathetic, and he lost interest and left her. He 

 denied ever having been impotent, but his fantasies were full of 

 means to avoid becoming so. During the last few years spent in 

 hospitals and garbage gathering he had had no intercourse, nor had 

 he masturbated. There was no desire. His wet dreams were of 

 heterosexual intercourse. 



He used to be pretty passionate he said, and lust and longing 

 for masturbation made life a misery. Giving in to perversions 



