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nearly all forms of coprophilia :  and so on.  (These 
latter forms are so symbolic that sense of sex is a 
minor matter.) 
A man can afford to a man two pleasures which 
a woman cannot give him :  namely : 
(1) passive sodomy.  (pleasure of the pathic) 
(2) irrumation.  (pleasure of the fellator)7 
The latter is a small matter, and we are justified 
in concluding that as far as gross gratifications go, 
the advantage, substantial though slight, rests 
with the woman.  The supreme pleasures are 
common to both, except cunnilingism (especially 
during the monthly courses) on the one side, and 
passive sodomy on the other.  Both are pleasures 
of a somewhat masochistic order, and if we had 
definitely to choose, it would be hard.  Glory to the 
Creator whose bounty has not forced us to this al-
ternative ;  aye !  blessed for ever be His holy name, 
and thanksgiving in the highest for His loving-
kindness towards the Children of Men ! 
Why then do we so dearly cherish the passion of 
man and man, since of the liberty, do we pursue 
the shy kisses of silly English boys, often of the 
lower classes,8 when every type of woman (from the 
moustachioed and muscular belly-dancer from 
Spain, with a constrictor cunni developed till the 
penis issues aching and bruised from her danger-
ous defile, to the soft and rosy maiden of our own 
dear land, with slender limbs and velvet flesh, 
whose pleasance is like a single slim petal of hya-
cinth) is at our disposal for sums ranging from 
half-a-crown to fifty guineas ? 
To ask the question is to acknowledge that one 
is still no better than the brutes ;  and to answer it 
is (consequently) to attempt to teach a dog dog-
Latin ! 
O man !  how can I hold talk with thee, who hast 
not lain upon a bed, expectant, fearful, of thou 
knowst not what ;  tremulous ;  stammering foolish