The Scented Garden

25 tallist.5 Being himself an Urning, he has naturally failed to grasp the vast gap that divides the classes, which is that between an indulgence and a morbid craving : between the insane delusion that one is Jesus Christ or Julius Caesar and the sane and healthy resolve to emulate the exploits of these worthies in mysticism and war respectively. We pity the Urning, as we pity the consumptive or the drunkard ; but we do not pity him in any special sense, any more than a connoisseur of fine wines pities the drunkard above all other pitiable folk. We do not acknowledge any nervous weak- ness as having a peculiar claim on us, just be- cause it lies in the same plane6 as one of our hob- bies. Now this question of Bimetallism leads us to the subject of the reasons for our indulgence, since we are not (as some silly Germans would pretend) equally with the Urning the slaves of an uncontrol- lable paranoia, to use a somewhat discredited but useful term. Why, in short, (quoth Mr. Moses Monometallist) loving women as you do, sir, do you go to boys and men ? Is it only for variety ? If not, in what does the charm consist ? I will enumerate the conditions, and that cheer- fully, since it will incidentally enable me to justify that very remarkable phrase used above, the spiri- tuality of Sodomy. A woman can afford two pleasures to a man, which a boy cannot : namely : (1) the pleasure of the cunnilinge. (2) common copulation. (both these either with or without ‘ Red and white roses ’ i.e., menses and leucorrhoea.) Common to either sex (besides opifex and arti- fex) are obviously all forms of masturbation with the hand, mouth, breast, armpit, etc : active sod- omy : most forms of sadism and masochism ;