...later on, positive repulsion. As a boy I was attracted, generally, to boys rather older than myself; now, at the age of 37, my ideal of love is a powerful, strongly built man, preferably of the working class. He need not be especially intellectual, or, if endowed in the latter...

...later on, positive repulsion. As a boy I was attracted, generally, to boys rather older than myself; now, at the age of 37, my ideal of love is a powerful, strongly built man, preferably of the working class. He need not be especially intellectual, or, if endowed in the latter...

...Whitmanesque plea for equality of mankind infused with his ideal of love, which he specified elsewhere as "a powerful, strongly built man, of my own age or...rather younger — preferably of the working class." There is no reason to question Chushichi Tsuzuki's observation that an "element of sexual attraction"...

...Sexual Inversion is significantly more revealing about the specifics of Carpenter's sexual desire: "My ideal of love is a powerful, strongly built man, of my own age or rather younger—preferably of the working class. Though having solid sense and character, he need not be...

...male middle-class subject, after reflecting on some of his earlier, defining experiences states that: Now, - at the age of 37, - my ideal of love is a powerful,...anything of the cheap intellectual style, repels me very decisively.21 It is these links between masculinity and homosexuality which were problematised after...