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 man-to-man sexualism. The larger the city, of course the more the profession is overt. An evening walk in the streets near large hotels, a stroll in frequented arcades, parks, plazas, is prodigal in all familiar aspects. St. Petersburg, Moskow, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Stockholm, Hamburg, Berlin, Breslau, Munich, Madrid, Vienna, Lisbon, Budapest, Belgrad, Sofia, Constantinople, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Milan, Turin, Venice, Geneva, Zurich—are notably such foyers. So are scores of Kurorte; of other summer or winter places of fashionable resort. Dozens of large commercial towns (particularly in Germany and Austria) not national capitals but places of large movement, frequented by foreigners, are in the category. Particularly wherever on the Continent the English and American travellers converge, the prostitute finds it to his account to go. Since the English occupation of Egypt, Cairo and some other tourist-centers have a representation of male prostitutes of all races. In Lisbon, until within a few years, male "houses" were quasi tolerated as a local expedient. In Italy, the German is recognizedly a special patron of boy-prostitutes, at all rendezvous.

The league is eternal between female prostitution and worse criminality; including crimes of personal violence. Just so is it a part of male harlotry, though it has not such wide opportunity. It makes up in quality for what it lacks in quantity. It is always, inevitably, in touch with the thief, pickpocket swindler, bully, blackmailer, and murderer, according to chance and individual. The uranian prostitute is often debilitated in body and timorous, compared with the heterosexual. But frequently he wrangles, hectors, blusters, maltreats, murders, if a fit subject be in his power; in his anger or cupidity. A vast