His chief was a homosexual who easily seduced him and brought him into the homosexual circle. Then he became aware of his condition and maintained relations only with adult and well educated men. He had a delicate taste and not every man could please him (here he shows me the photo of the soldier, mentioned above). Unfortunately he had the misfortune to be caught in a park in the act of taking hold of the _membrum virile_ of a driver. His case is now pending in the court. He would be happy if he could return to his former mode of gratification. When asked if he had had no intercourse with women during the whole period from the 22nd to the 35th year he becomes uneasy and confesses that this has happened a few times but when he did so he was always under the influence of drink. While he kept sober it never happened. And every time after intercourse with a woman he had such a terrible after-effect that _his own mother to whom he always confessed everything had advised him to seek intercourse with men, because she noticed that he was always feeling fresh after doing so, while if he went with women he was always depressed for days_. Experienced psychoanalysts need not be reminded that the mother used this means to keep her son from contact with other women because she was jealous of them and therefore she drove him to men. She was never jealous of men. That was something else. This occurrence is far from rare. The mother of a homosexual once told me: “I am never jealous when O. finds a new friend, although he falls romantically in love with them. But the thought of his giving himself up to a woman is something I cannot bear....” D. S. listened to his mother’s advice. He says: “I gave up drink after that and became a fanatic homosexual.” As the subject, a high governmental employee, could easily lose his position, I advised him to have intercourse only with women and in view of his desire to free himself of the trouble through psychoanalysis I was able to wrestle him out of the clutches of the law. He attempted contact with women, always after partaking of small quantities of drink, and he gradually improved so that he finally married, his wife being, in fact, a woman 20 years older than he. That woman was a _locum tenens_ for his mother! Further observations on the psychology of similar cases will be recorded in subsequent pages. Here I propose to draw attention merely to the influence of alcohol. Drink enabled him to adopt the heterosexual path.