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 the hackmen pressed around us, we called out, "Well—who sets up the champagne for us?"—at which the gentlemen and the commoner guests fairly scuffled over us! We were indeed just in our element! And we often repeated this sort of an adventure, and not only we two but many of the "sisters" …

To find a more predisposed instance of sexualism and effeminacy in a Uranian type would be hard, outside of the regiment of venal homosexual prostitution.

Formal uranian marriage-ceremonies are not Uncommon among Uranian lovers. Nor are many such marriages at all foreign to psychology of homosexual passion. Among Uranians is likely to be sought a serious quality in some of their connections. Fortunate enough to possess bodily, as well as psychically, the man they love, the youth that they desire—so comes the wish to make the tie solemn. Such earnestly-meant ceremonies are offset by others for the sake of mere eccentricity, sensation, caricature, costly homage, and notoriety. Intersexual marriages vary in their felicity as do normal marriages. Sometimes they appear to be merely deep friendships between two men, living together in city or country;'but really represent formal homosexual matrimony, ceremonial union, with or without witnesses. Especially are such relations of interest (and frequently most happy, at least for a time) when some young Dionysian-Uranian is the "wife" of an older Uranian, both being refined natures and constant—the latter trait being rare.

The celebration of Uranian marriages, whether lightly or seriously made, are sometimes luxuriously 'smart,' with a considerable company of guests. In Carlier's work "Les Deux Prostitutions" (a book of value to those interested in the underworld of French homosexualism, though written with no reference to a correct scientific theory of homosexualism) will be found some anecdotes of these homosexual uranian weddings. Here is such a