In such bands there are formal marriages, betrothals, banquets, and introductions of brides and grooms into their apartments.
These "souteneurs" attach their "jesus" to themselves.
The passive pederasts are "petits jusus," "jesus," or "aunts."
The "petits jesus" are lost, depraved children, whom accident places in the hands of active pederasts, who seduce them, and reveal to them the horrible means of earning a livelihood, either as "entretenus" or as male street-walkers, with or without "souteneurs."
The most suitable and promising "petits jesus" are given into the hands of persons who instruct these children in the art of female dress and manner. Gradually they then seek to emancipate themselves from their teachers and masters, in order to become "femmes entretenues"; and not infrequently by means of anonymous denunciation of their "souteneurs" to the police.
It is the object of the "souteneur" and the "petit jesus" to make the latter appear young, as long as possible, by means of all the arts of the toilet.
The limit of age is about twenty-five years; then they all become "jesus" and "femmes entretenues," and are then sustained by several "souteneurs." The "jesus" fall into three categories: "filles gallanites," i.e., those that have fallen again into the hands of a "souteneur"; "pierreuses" (ordinary street-walkers, like their female colleagues); and "domestics."
The "domestics" hire out to active pederasts, either to gratify their desires or to obtain "petits jesus" for them.
A sub-group of these "domestics" is formed by such of them as enter the service of "petits jesus" as "femmes de chambre." The principal object of these "domestics" is to use their positions to obtain compromising knowledge, with which they later practice blackmail, and thus assure themselves ease in their old age.
The most horrible class of active pederasts is made up of the "aunts,"—i.e., the "souteneurs" of (male) prostitutes——who, though normal sexually, are morally depraved, and practice pederasty (passive) only for gain, or for the purpose of blackmail.
The wealthy "amateurs" have their reunions and places of meeting, where the passive ones appear in female attire, and horrible orgies take place. The waiters, musicians, etc., at such gatherings, are all pederasts. The "filles gallantes" do not venture, except during the carnival, to show themselves on the street in female dress; but they know how to lend to their appearance something indicative of their calling, by means of style of dress, etc. They entice by means of gesture, peculiar movements of the hands, etc., and lead their victims to hotels, baths, or brothels.
What the author says of blackmail is generally known. There are cases where pederasts have allowed their entire fortune to be wrung from them.
