Transvestism tends to accent the esthetic sensibility. The patient’s experience of an increased comfort and well-being by the gratification of the pronounced impulse of cross-dressing, is more akin to the satisfaction of the artist, experienced by the successful expression of a certain symbolism. Transvestism is more in harmony with the basal esthetic demands. The patient harbors exalted ideas and is striving to secure artistic enjoyment in the appreciation of the beautiful. The attraction is in the mind and has nothing to do with the sex-organs. Hence transvestism seldom celebrates orgies of lascivious and voluptuous practices, as often found in homosexuality. If sensuous caressing does take place, it is with a person of the other sex. For the physical part of the sex activity is perfectly normal. The following five cases of transvestism in men[BF] will illustrate these points: The first patient was very delicate all the time up to four years of age. His father died when he was four years old, and the boy was brought up by his mother. As the youngest living child (Nesthäkchen, nestling) he was rather spoiled by her. He slept with his mother until he was fourteen years old. The patient’s looks were rather girlish. He always wore girl’s shoes, on account of his high instep. Up to twelve years of age the patient played with girls, made dolls’ dresses, cooked in girls’ cooking stoves, etc. The patient’s sister was a dress-maker and often used the patient as a model to drape or to try on dresses. Otherwise the patient was never seduced by anyone to irregular practices. [Illustration: CUT XLIII. A characteristic picture of patient No. 1; posing in imitation of the celebrated painting “Psyche in Bath,” dressed in stockinet.]