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The analysis is described of a man whose passive homosexual relations showed marked masochistic features rooted in primal scene phantasies. The overtly aggressive character of the father and the humbly submissive character of the mother contributed to the quality of his sexual life. A further feature of identification with a brother whose death the mother lamented led him to be dull-witted in school and bound him to his sexual 'sickness'. Early events in his relation with his father in which the father threw him over his head and pulled him through his extended legs, and later features in which he was beaten with a leather strap, led to the linking of paternal and fraternal relations in his sexual life. He was equally sexually excited by his brother's corduroy trousers, the leather smell of the latter's bicycle seat, and the strap with which he was beaten. The integrating equation was large penis of the sexual partner = father's penis = crotch = corduroy pants = leather seat = leather strap. These features were repeated in his identification with Christ and his early preoccupation with sacred pictures in which Christ is beaten with a leather thong, bound with ropes, otherwise tortured, and then wept over by the women of Calvary. Christ bleeding and His naked body clothed in a loincloth epitomized His femininity with which the patient identified. The patient was a wholesale food supplier as well as an excellent host to his friends. Various gospel stories in which Christ's miraculous feeding of the multitude and the blessing of the wine led to the elucidation of a further equation: food = bread = Host = Christ's body, and liquor = wine = Christ's blood. His identification with his martyred mother became absorbed into that of the martyred, bleeding, feminine Jesus. This may have contributed to the fact that he felt feminine but did not appear feminine or act in a feminine way. His identification with the dying brother, cherished by his mother, was similarl