There is abundant evidence to
this effect. Raffalovich (_L'Uranisme et l'Unisexualite_, p. 126)
insists on the importance of body odors as a sexual attraction to
the male invert, and is inclined to think that the increased odor
of the man's own body during sexual excitement may have an
auto-aphrodisiacal effect which is reflected on the body of the
loved person. The odor of peasants, of men who work in the open
air, is specially apt to be found attractive. Moll mentions the
case of an inverted man who found the "forest, mosslike odor" of
a schoolfellow irresistibly attractive.
The following passage from a letter written by an Italian marquis
has been sent to me: "Bonifazio stripped one evening, to give me
pleasure. He has the full, rounded flesh and amber coloring which
painters of the Giorgione school gave to their S. Sebastians.
When he began to dress, I took up an old _fascia_, or girdle of
netted silk, which was lying under his breeches, and which still
preserved the warmth of his body. I buried my face in it, and was
half inebriated by its exquisite aroma of young manhood and fresh
hay.
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