A rather dominating mother, during the war years, often took servicemen into her home to spend the night. If there was only one guest, he would be lodged in her son's bedroom. The boy started his homosexual practice when he was twelfe, and so "had a number of homosexual partners supplied by his mother. On one occassion she discovered her son in bed with a guest, but she raised no objection and made no comment." But she warned him repeatedly about women. Whenever the boy showed an interest in a girl, "the mother immediately found fault. She encouraged his relationship with a boy" - the same boy with whom he had had his first homosexual affair.