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contact, or love of a bodily sort? Or do your warmer Intimacies seem all to tend to loves?—not stopping at the merely intellectual bond?

Does the sight of the nude human body—of others, or even of your own person, especially the sexual organs—excite you sexually?

In making acquaintances, friendships, and so on, are you much affected at first by looks, beauty or plainness of person, charm of manner, and the like? Does this endure?

Does want of physical attractiveness at once or later (little by little) repel you, and even interrupt your intimacy?

Are you (generally estimating) popular in friendly, social life with women, and a recipient of their confidences?

Are you given to loving where you do not respect? Does such feeling last? Has such a person recurrent power over you?

Have you any morbid tendencies in your vita sexualis? i. e. relish for flagellation, sadism, fetichism, and so on?—as described in the preceding work, and in other special studies of such tendencies.

Have you ever been conscious of betraying or guessing by a mere look, a brief exchange of glances (quite instantaneous often) that you or another person are homosexuals? This absolutely apart from any gesture or incident that any third person would understand as hinting at similisexualism.

Have you ever thought that similisexual persons have shown themselves attracted to you without your feeling inclined to them? If so what have been the types—virile or effeminate, etc.? Why did you not reciprocate the interest?


Various Moral, Temperamental, Habitual Traits, etc. etc.



What is your impression of yourself as to your moral strength and nature, setting aside details of your sexual instincts? Do you conclude yourself to be of average, or of more or less than average, general uprightness? Of honesty in disposition, sincerity, responsibility?

What would you say to be your chief moral weakness?

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