exists defective organization of the highest cerebral centres, which
renders him incapable of leading an independent life, and of obtaining
a position in life. His perverse sexual instinct prevents him from
exercising normal sexual functions; and this is attended by all the
social consequences of such an anomaly, and the danger of satisfaction
of perverse impulses arising out of his abnormal organization, with
consequent social and legal conflicts. Fear of the latter, however,
cannot be great, since the (perverse) sexual impulse of the patient is
weak.