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Flippant, light-minded, unreliable. At the time this book was written "gay" did not carry its present connotation of homosexuality, nor did it always carry the connotation of cheerful and happy that preceded the present connotation. "True enough," said the king, "I prefer the duc de la Vauguyon: he has a good reputation " "And well deserved," said the old marechal, sneering.
Quite recently the tendency to homosexuality has been emphasized as an important factor in the psychological problem of sex. This view was upheld by such authorities as Dr. Constance Long of England, and other prominent women physicians.
These are the common manifestations characteristic of female homosexuality. As has been suggested, the term is loosely applied to such cases as these, but the tendency of recent psychological literature is to consider them as highly sublimated expressions of this tendency.
In view of the previously laid down considerations concerning the endocrine genesis of homosexuality, how are we to explain him, and his natural history? As with the other exemplars of genius examined we need here, too, to gain some insight into his "internal secretion heredity." His father, Sir William Wilde, was a surgeon.
More than about the automatic visceral reactions, these curiosities evoke the repressive imperatives of the associates, the mother and father especially. These repressive influences may be and often are the effects of ignorance, prudishness, vulgarity, or homosexuality, or the sex perversions that are known as sadism and masochism.
He became curious as to the cause of his terror and in time was able to observe "the animal," but the train of feelings which had been set up led to a life-long indifference to women and a tendency to homosexuality. It is noteworthy that he was attracted to men in whom the hair and other secondary sexual characters were well developed.
To the amazement of the lady, he proposed the following riddle: ‘’One can enter from in front, or from behind, only one has to stand up.’ Observing the despair of the lady, he, with a sly, innocent look, said, ‘But well then, what is it? T. had been with few Hungarians, but with these few, homosexuality had been, as it happened, a favorite subject of conversation.
In this connection the term homosexuality is used very loosely to denote any type of emotional fixation upon members of the same sex which is strong enough to prevent a normal love life with some individual of the opposite sex. Among American women, at least, this tendency is seldom expressed by any gross physical manifestations, but often becomes an idealized and lofty sentiment of friendship.
For the difficulties entailed in the attempt to ascertain the proportional number of inverts compare the work of M. Hirschfeld in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, 1904. Cf. also Brill, The Conception of Homosexuality, Journal of the A.M.A., August 2, 1913. Such a striving against the compulsion to inversion favors cures by suggestion of psychoanalysis.
Homosexuality, though not so common as masturbation, is very frequently found among prostitutes in France, it would seem, more frequently than in England and it may indeed be said that it occurs more often among prostitutes than among any other class of women.
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