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Mow is the similisexual act performed? Coitus inter femora, coitus ani, amplexus sine coitu, onanismus mutu., onanismus buccalis, etc. etc.? (Uraniad: sapphism, etc.,)

Does imagination, and the idea of enjoying the act with another person have any part in the intercourse?

Is ejaculation copious? How often usually repeated?

Have bodily odours, especially from the arms, head, legs, pubes, etc., any distinct sexual effect (exciting, etc.) on you? Are they pleasing to you? If so, from which sex? Or of which sorts and sex do they repel you?

When the sexual act is over, do you generally feel exhilarated, strengthened nervously, cheerful, appeased—morally and physically satisfied, etc.? Or rather the contrary?

Do you know how the effects are with persons with whom you have had similisexual intercourse?

In case of ordinary sexual acts with a person of the opposite sex, how does the act generally seem to affect you after it is over? How does it seem to affect your partner in it?

In similisexual life, are you obliged to seek out casual intercourse of the sort, at a risk of exposure, and to take persons not of your station or education, etc.? Or the reverse?

Have you constancy in your sexual life, so far as you can attest it? Or are you changeful, easily consoled for losses, for ill-luck in selection of partners, for shattered "ideals," etc.

How far is the same trait found in your friendships and acquaintances, when they are not decidedly (or not at all) sexual?

In dreams, do you have visions of sexual relations with men or women, the more frequently and ardently?

Have you ever confided your sexual nature to a person not similisexual?

Have you ever seemed to yourself suspected of such a nature, though you have kept it concealed all in life?

Has any one made such a confidence to you as to his or her nature, without your returning your confidence for it?

Are you given to ardent friendships with persons of your own sex, which friendships are not tinged with the wish for sexual

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