Circumcision was perhaps little thought of in those days as a
preventive of juvenile masturbation; at any rate, it was not
resorted to in my case. I remember, indeed, that a nurse
discovered that I was practicing masturbation, and I think she
made a few half-hearted attempts to stop it. It was probably
these attempts which gave me a growing feeling that there was
something wrong about masturbation, and that it must be practiced
secretly. But they were unsuccessful in their main object. The
practice continued.
"I went to school at the age of 10. There I came in contact
almost without warning, with the ordinary lewdness and grossness
of school conversation, and took to it readily. I soon became
conversant with the theory of sexual relations; but never got the
opportunity of sexual intercourse, and probably should have felt
some moral restraint even had such opportunity presented itself,
for coitus, however interesting it might be to talk about, was a
bigger thing to practice than masturbation. I masturbated fairly
frequently, occasionally producing two orgasms in quick
succession. I seldom masturbated with the hand; my method was to
lie face downward.
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