Part 20
Liquor vitæ as medicament, 93
Looked upon as girl, 10, 48, 85, 120, 128, 192, 204, 206, 218, 222
Low-class fairieship, 142 ff.
M
Manuscript of autobiography stolen, 241
Manustupration, 38, 41, 97
Medicine, recourse to, 47, 73, 81
Melancholia, 32, 45, 46, 48, 54, 58, 67, 69, 70, 75, 104, 109, 136, 141, 173, 176, 230, 235, 238, 239, 241, 245
Mental acumen, 38, 93, 114, 123, 139, 140
Mental characteristics, 12, 14–17
Method of leading up, 63, 181
Middle life reached, 238
Milites easiest of conquests, 117
Model pupil, 38
Monandry, periods of, 138, 237, 240
Moral paragon outside venery, 44, 121, 131, 136, 189, 242
Morality judged by others, 25, 44, 81, 140
Mujerados among red men, 70, 156
Mulberry Street period, 77 ff. farewell to, 99 night on, 85
Muscle dance, 15, 166
Music, effect of, 116
N
Nature of satisfaction, 91, 97
Nature’s aim in androgynism, 88, 108, 243
No alcohol, no syphilis, 234
Nymphomania, 59, 60, 96, 104, 142, 159, 173, 174, 195
O
Open career ends, 231
Opinion of inversion, prevalent, 25, 75, 110, 140
Outcast period, 141 ff.
P
Pædicatio dangerous, 82, 96, 158 defined, 92, 96
Parentage, 27
Persecution of inverts, 130, 132, 149, 172, 227, 235
Petit-jesus, etymology, 8
Physical traits, 12, 13, 35, 48, 248
Physicians consulted, 47, 73, 81
Pickpocketing, 101, 145, 203, 228
Police, encounters with, 112, 122, 132, 145, 178, 193, 207, 229
Polyandry vs. monandry, 88
Polyglottism and inversion, 17
Popularity and fame achieved, 205
Potassium iodide antidote vs. ill effects, 95
Prayers for feminization, 41 virility, 46, 67, 68
Pregnancy, fear of, 43
Private secretary period, 173 ff.
Professional fairies, 122, 125, 143, 155
Pursued by women, 13
Q
Quarters of the city frequented, 76, 122, 131, 143
R
Race for life, 170
Raison d’étre of inverts, 88, 108, 243
Recognized by Jennie J’s associates, 162 ff.
Recognized by Ralph W’s associates, 162 ff.
Reform, 158
Rejected by Providence from ministry, 76, 161
Relatives, abnormal, 28
Religion unavailing, 49, 56, 58, 68, 159
Religious prodigy, 35, 45, 58, 68, 248 worker, 35, 45, 47, 56, 80, 81, 159, 162, 230
Reveries, youthful, 40
Robbers, 64, 78, 102, 145, 149, 169, 179, 193, 214, 241
Rockies, in, 235
Ruffians’ attitude, 63
S
Sadism, 98, 214
St. Vitus’ dance, 37
School life, 38
Second nocturnal ramble, 71
Semen ingested, effect of, 93
Semi-invalid, author a, 244
Senior year, 122 ff.
Sex is psychical primarily, 22 scale, 9
Sexes not sharply divided, 8
Sexual determinants of author, 10–13 lot compared with normal, 243 precocity, 30 preferences, 87, 127, 142, 149 reveries, youthful, 40 starvation, 104
Sexually abnormal relatives, 28
Singing, fairie, 78, 155, 192
Soldiers deliciae, 111 ff., 138, 147, 189 ff., 236, 240 demigods, 50, 115, 190, 192, 202, 206 European, 187 in camp, 116 ff. in squad-room, 191, 192 persecution by, 193, 225 ff. susceptibility to homosexuality, 117 ff., 191
Songs, 217 ff.
Sophomore and junior years, 69 ff.
Spermatorrhea, 194, 196
Spied on, 225
Spree, preliminaries to, 177
Squad-room, evening in, 192
Squaw-men in red race, 70, 156
Stamping ground as low-class fairie, 144
Steamboat flirtation, 180
Stuyvesant Square, debut in, 131
Suicide contemplated, 32, 37, 46, 58, 69, 106, 109, 113, 141, 173, 235
Syphilis, 126, 127, 150, 231 ff.
T
Taste for learning, 17, 35, 38, 51, 125, 139
Tattooing, 87, 192
Teasing, subject of, 14, 208, 212, 248
Temptations peculiar to inverts, 39, 43, 44, 48–51, 55, 74, 235
Tobacco, never used, 77
Two-sided life, 119
Typical chase, 153
Typical night on side street, 151
U
Undersized, 13, 35
Usual treatment of inverts, 75, 110
V
Venereal disease, 126, 127, 150, 190, 231 ff.
Venery, excessive, harmful, 150
Verdicts of pastor and alienist, 81
Voice, singing, 11, 27, 78, 192 speaking, 11
W
Warts, venereal, 126
Weight, author’s, 198
Whistling, inability, 37
Who cultivate androgynes, 32, 33, 86, 117, 243
Why a double life, 174
Why an autobiography, 1, 3, 7, 35
Why fairie career ended, 231, 235
Wilde, Oscar, 20, 251
Y
Youthful appearance, 16, 189, 244
Year 1874 on, 27 ff. 1883 on, 38 ff. 1889 on, 45 ff. 1891 on, 47 ff. 1893, 77 ff. 1894–5, 99 ff. 1896, 128 ff. 1897, 158 ff. 1898, 180 ff. 1899–01, 189 ff. 1902, 203 ff. 1903–4, 210 ff. 1905–6, 216 ff. 1907–18, 235 ff.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.