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 of the mercenary class, active or passive. Sexual passivists, offer a considerable proportion of types, with even a degeneracy of the sexual organs, as of some other physical traits. To this topic an Appendix to this study will refer. Passive similisexualism seems to work toward bodily and intellectual degeneracy, far more frequently than does "active" homosexualism. There is some intersexual logic here. The passivist (cinœdus) is more feminine than the activist; and his deficiencies and degeneracies often logically are in key with distinctively womanish deficiencies.

An example of degenerated mentality though not perceptibly linked to degeneracy of the moral nature (and scarcely such as to the, physique) occured [sic] to the notice of Taylor. The physician was called in to determine, by exploration, the sex of a certain Elise Edwards, an actress" by profession. So came the disclosure that the patient had a manly body of normal structure and appearance, in all essentials; which the "actress" had long concealed in womanly attire. Since the fourteenth year of the patient (whose real name was Z—) he had always worn woman's dress. He had been every where received professionally as an actress. He wore his hair long; had cultivated a female pitch of voice, and so on. The facial type was sufficently feminine to support the role with ease; but the body was male, from head to foot. The generative organs were vigorously male: There were indications of passive sodomy; distention of the anus, etc. In this case, the degeneration seemed merely temperamental and mental. The patient was morally, normal, so far as an impressions suggested. In an earlier chapter of this book, a converse of this case was cited.

A striking example was that of the young German, known in certain circles of Munich homosexualism as well as in many other cities, by the title of "The Pompadour". His autobiography