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If, for instance, an individual be composed thus:

$\mu \left\{{\begin{array}{l}{\frac {3}{4}}M\\{\textrm {and}}\\{\frac {1}{4}}W,\end{array}}\right.$

then the best sexual complement of that individual will be another compound as follows:

$\omega \left\{{\begin{array}{l}{\frac {1}{4}}M\\{\textrm {and}}\\{\frac {3}{4}}W.\end{array}}\right.$

It can be seen at once that this view is wider in its reach than the common statement of the case. That male and female, as sexual types, attract each other is only one instance of my general law, an instance in which an imaginary individual,

$\chi \left\{{\begin{array}{l}1\;M\\0\;W\end{array}}\right.$

finds its complement in an equally imaginary individual,

$\gamma \left\{{\begin{array}{l}0\;M\\1\;W.\end{array}}\right.$

There can be no hesitation in admitting the existence of definite, individual sexual preferences, and such an admission carries with it approval of the necessity of investigating the laws of the preference, and its relation to the rest of the bodily and mental characters of an individual. The law, as I have stated it, can encounter no initial sense of impossibility, and is contrary neither to scientific nor common experience. But it is not self-evident. It might be that the law, which cannot yet be regarded as fully worked out, might run as follows:

$M_{\mu }-M_{\omega }={\textrm {a}}\;{\textrm {constant;}}$

that is to say, it may be the difference between the degrees of masculinity and not the sum of the degrees of masculinity that is a constant quality, so that the most masculine man would stand just as far removed from his complement