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Through the analysis of a patient with strong homosexual tendencies, the author illustrates Freud's thesis that the substitution of the penis for the breast provides the essential basis of male homosexuality. Weaning therefore equals castration and the castrator is the mother rather than the father. The penis then becomes the sexual object in preference to the vagina.