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Inscribed to Nature’s Step-Children—the sexually abnormal by birth—in the hope that their lives may be rendered more tolerable through the author’s efforts to enlighten thinking men on these step-children’s psychology and life experience.
“But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
“Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?”—Isaiah XLII, v. 22, 23.
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
|---|---|---|
| Introduction, by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog | [vii] | |
| Part One: The Third Sex | ||
| I. | How This Book Came to Be Written | [1] |
| II. | The Place of the Androgyne in the Male Sex Scale | [7] |
| III. | Androgynes of Mythology and History | [25] |
| IV. | Man Is a Passional, Rather Than a Rational, Being | [39] |
| Part Two: How the Author Came to Be a Female-Impersonator | ||
| I. | Reveries Suggested by My Infancy | [53] |
| II. | School Days | [63] |
| III. | An Androgyne’s Youth | [70] |
| IV. | I Grow into The Fairie Boy | [82] |
| V. | The Boy Who Never Grew to Be a Man | [89] |
| Part Three: the Fairie Boy | ||
| I. | Female-Impersonation | [97] |
| II. | A Typical Female-Impersonation Spree | [103] |
| III. | The Gambler | [114] |
| IV. | A Stuyvesant Square Pick-up | [130] |
| V. | Evenings at Paresis Hall | [146] |
| VI. | Thoughts Suggested by the “Hermaphroditoi” in General | [164] |
| Part Four: Frank—Eunice | ||
| I. | Debut as Adult Female-Impersonator | [170] |
| II. | The Pug Heaven | [175] |
| III. | A University Friendship | [178] |
| IV. | The Masked Ball | [182] |
| V. | Frank—Eunice’s Indiscretion | [191] |
| Part Five: Angelo—Phyllis | ||
| I. | Angelo Angevine’s Debut as Public Female-Impersonator | [198] |
| II. | Jailed for Wearing Petticoats | [209] |
| III. | George Greenwood | [214] |
| Part Six: Newspaper Accounts of Murders of Androgynes | ||
| I. | Two Murder Mysteries Which, Strangely Alike in Many Ways, Baffled All Efforts to Solve | [223] |
| II. | Z Mystery Baffles Inquiry at Every Angle | [237] |
| III. | College Student’s Death Is Unexplained | [259] |
| Part Seven: Medical Writers on Androgynism | ||
| I. | What a New York Official Physician Has to Say about Fairies | [262] |
| II. | What One of America’s Foremost Medical Writers Has to Say about Fairies | [266] |
| Part Eight: Androgyne Verse | ||
| I. | Emotion | [271] |
| II. | Recollection | [275] |
| III. | Memories | [278] |
| IV. | French Doll-Baby | [280] |
| Announcement of The Riddle of the Underworld | [283] | |
| Index | [286] | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Page | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Author—A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue, “Hermaphroditos” (Photo by Dr. A. W. Herzog) | [Frontispiece] |
| II. | Ancient Greek Statue of an Androgyne, Called “Hermaphroditos,” Now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy | [25] |
| III. | Alexander the Great—An Androgyne of the Mild Type | [31] |
| IV. | Julius Cæsar—An Androgyne of the Mild Type | [31] |
| V. | Raphael—the Most Gifted Ultra-Androgyne the World Has Known | [33] |
| VI. | The “Fairie Boy” Ready to Set Out on Life’s Journey | [53] |
| VII. | My Garden of Gethsemane | [78] |
| VIII. | Front View of Author at Thirty-three (Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt) | [82] |
| IX. | Rear view of Author at Thirty-three (Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt) | [89] |
| X. | Fourteenth Street Rialto, Stamping-Ground of the Hermaphroditoi | [105] |
| XI. | Stuyvesant Square, One of Jennie June’s Stamping Grounds | [105] |
| XII. | Neighborhood Where Harvey Green Thought He “Finished” Jennie June | [140] |
| XIII. | The Author at Thirty-four (Amateur photo) | [164] |
| XIV. | Bowery, in the Nineteenth Century America’s Main Red-Light Street, and Stamping-Ground of Frank—Eunice, Angelo—Phyllis and Ralph Werther—Jennie June | [169] |
| XV. | Michelangelo’s Adam | [216] |
| XVI. | Whitestone Railroad Station (“Holy Ground”) | [271], [272], [273] |
| XVII. | “The Boy of the Piave” (America’s gift to Italy in 1921) | [277] |