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beardal growth was sparse, always clean-shaven, and for special occasions, eradicated. The amative side of life ("erotic ardor", as he phrased it) was his only-fault. In leisure hours he could talk of little else than modern exemplars of adolescent Adonis or Hercules. In this respect he was one of the two or three extreme hermaphroditoi.

Bowery, in the Nineteenth Century America's Main
Red-Light Street, and Stamping-Ground of
Frank-Eunice, Angelo-Phyllis, and
Ralph Werther-Jennie June