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we suspect) author of ‘ White Stains ’, and the 
nameless Aristophanes who wrote the ‘ Nameless 
Novel ’, nobody in modern times has dared to voice 
openly the supreme sanity, the splendid athletic-
ism, and the unutterable spirituality of the male 
rapture of the passion between man and man. 
In treating of this matter I must first premise 
that by paederasty I mean actual sodomy as de-
fined by British law1 — immissio penis in corpus 
vivum. 
 
“ Arse makes life golden, want of it dull yellow ; 
The rest is only leather and prunella.” 
 
At least, the rest is but preliminaires.  An acute 
observer of my acquaintance remarked to me re-
cently that it was the actual mess caused by emis-
sion, and the necessity of cleaning it up, that, by 
allowing time for passion to cool, prevented a great 
deal of copulation which would otherwise take 
place.  There is a great gulf fixed between the 
‘ short time ’ and the ‘ all night ’, and that great gulf 
is filled with Condy’s Fluid !  This applies equally to 
Sodomy.  If the semen is safely bestowed in mouth 
or anus of the beloved one, the temptation is to 
begin all over again ;  bar the trifle of fatigue, one is 
in the same position as at first ;  its loss between 
the legs or in the hand rouses a sentiment of dis-
gust2 which is fatal to passion.  Even the mouth, 
like the vagina, remains in a somewhat greasy 
condition after it has achieved the holy task, and 
we have no hesitation in plumping the anus as the 
one vase into which the perfumed oil of manhood 
may be poured without exciting a reaction.3 
This point being established, let me further4 
make a distinction between the two great classes of 
sodomites.  Ulrichs has pedantically christened 
them Urning and Uranodioning :  for the former we 
have no colloquial name :  the latter we term Bime-