Some years ago he underwent the operation of castration.
He says, and perhaps he believes, that the reason why he underwent the operation was, that he suffered from spermatorrhea.
My belief is, that, feeling as a woman, desiring to be a woman and wishing to seem as much as possible like a woman to his male paramours, he hated above all the testicles, those insignia of manhood, and had them removed to be more alike to that which he wished to be.
I read through his Autobiography of an Androgyne.
I cannot say that I enjoyed it.
I neither liked the style in which it was written, nor the manner in which, to me, unimportant details were given a great deal of space, nor the manner in which vital questions were entirely overlooked.
I did not see any scientific value in the conversations related nor any poetical value in the verses recited.
The subject matter was all well known to me and nauseating.
I was to edit this “Autobiography” and stood aghast at the task that I thought was before me.
I saw the author and told him what I have just stated and that in my opinion the book had neither literary nor scientific value in the way in which he thought it had.