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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 ;