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266 '''II. What One of America's Foremost Medical Writers Has to Say about Fairies.'''

Dr. Robert W. Shuf eldt, author of, has included at least one fairie among the many human beings the results of his physical examination of whom he has published. The following are excerpts from his valuable and interesting article, Biography of a Passive Pederast, in the October, 1917, issue of the. I use my own spelling of "fairie." My comments are in brackets. Those interested should read the entire original article. Particularly two photographs of the subject are given, one nude and the other in full feminine garb.

"J. W. ....is a fairie from the slums of Brooklyn, N. Y. .... twenty-three years of age. When fourteen .... the lobes of his ears had been pierced .... for earrings, and these ornaments he commonly wears when dressed in female attire He invited my attention to the fine development of his breasts, whereas there was not the slightest evidence of gynecomasty The impression was left upon my mind that he was morphologically male in all particulars. .... I became thoroughly convinced that the man was laboring under .... a most extraordinary delusion He claimed to have his menses regularly every month .... [Evidently bleeding piles.]

"In July he admitted that he had never been pregnant; while in November, when he brought with him one of his numerous 'husbands' or lovers, he claimed