2. Acquaintanceship Advertisements, Friendship Advertisements, and Employment Advertisements.—These may be divided into the two classes of heterosexual and homosexual advertisements. Examples of the former are the following:
A young widow, twenty-seven years of age, desires friendly intercourse with a man of position, who will assist her with word and deed.
A young stranger desires acquaintanceship (!) to relieve her of a temporary difficulty.
A merchant, a man of middle age, desires the acquaintanceship of a good-looking lady (a slender figure preferred), for the purpose of friendly intercourse.
The following advertisements have a more or less definite homosexual note:
A well-placed young lady, nearing the age of thirty, desires an honourable, trustworthy lady friend.
A cultured lady of middle age desires a ladies’ club.
A well-placed elderly gentleman desires friendly intercourse with a young man.
A young merchant, between twenty and thirty years of age, desires friendly intercourse with a young man of good family.
A young lady, a stranger to the town, desires a lady friend; apply by letter to “Lesbos” at the office of this paper.[773]