Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2: Sexual Inversion

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It has been remarked by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald that the problem of homosexuality is a problem left over to us by the Middle Ages, which for five hundred years dealt with inverts as it dealt with heretics and witches.
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Overview

It has been remarked by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald that the problem of homosexuality is a problem left over to us by the Middle Ages, which for five hundred years dealt with inverts as it dealt with heretics and witches.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780898756012
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
  • Publication date: 10/28/2001
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter I. Introduction
Homosexuality Among Animals
Among the Lower Human Races
The Albanians
The Greeks
The Eskimo
The Tribes of the Northwest United States
Homosexuality among Soldiers in Europe
Indifference Frequently Manifested by European Lower Classes
Sexual Inversion at Rome
Homosexuality in Prisons
Among Men of Exceptional Intellect and Moral Leaders
Muret
Michelangelo
Winkelmann
Homosexuality in English History
Walt Whitman
Verlaine
Burton's Climatic Theory of Homosexuality
The Racial Factor
The Prevalence of Homosexuality To-day
Chapter II. The Study of Sexual Inversion
Westphal
Hossli
Casper
Ulrichs
Tarnowsky
Krafft-Ebing
Moll
Schrenck-Notzing
Chevalier
Fere
Kiernan
Lydston
Raffalovich
Chapter III. Sexual Invesion in Men
Relatively Undifferentiated State of the Sexual Impulse in Early Life
Homosexuality in Schools
Latent Inversion
Rarity of Acquired Homosexuality
Classification of the Varieties of Sexual Inversion
Simple Inversion
Cases I to XXX
Psychosexual Hermaphroditism
Cases XXXI to XXXVIII
Chapter IV. Sexual Inversion in Women
Prevalence of Sexual Inversion Among Women
Among the Lower Races
Temporary Homosexuality in Schools, etc.
Cases XXXIX-XLII
Physical and Psychic Characteristics of Inverted Women
The Modern Development of Homosexuality Among Women
Homosexuality Among Prostitutes
Chapter V. The Nature of Sexual Inversion
Analysis of Histories
Race
Heredity
General Health
First Appearance of Homosexual Impulse
Sexual Precocity and Hyperesthesia
Suggestion and Other Exciting Causes of Inversion
Masturbation
Attitude Toward Women
Erotic Dreams
Methods of Sexual Relationship
Pseudo-sexual Attraction
Physical Sexual Abnormalities
Artistic and Other Aptitudes
Moral Attitude of the Invert
Chapter VI. The Theory of Sexual Inversion
What is Sexual Inversion?
Causes of Diverging Views
The Theory of Suggestion Unworkable
Importance of the Congenital Element in Inversion
The Theory of the Female Soul
Embryonic Hermaphroditism as a Key to Inversion
Inversion as a Variation or "Sport"
Comparison with Color-blindness, Color-hearing, and Similar Abnormalities
What is an Abnormality?
Not Necessarily a Disease
Relation of Inversion to Degeneration
Exciting Causes of Inversion
Seldom Operative in the Absence of Predisposition
Chapter VII. Conclusions
The Prevention of Homosexuality
The Influence of the School
Coeducation
The Treatment of Sexual Inversion
Criticism of Schrenck-Notzing's Methods
Mental and Physical Hygiene
The Limits to the Radical Cure of Inversion
The Children of Inverts
The Attitude of Society
Origin of the Horror Aroused by Homosexuality
Connection Between Homosexuality and Infanticide
Justinian
The Code Napoleon
The State of the Law in Europe To-day
Germany
England
What Should be our Attitude toward Homosexuality
Appendix A. Homosexuality Among Tramps
Appendix B. Ulrichs's Views
Appendix C. Letter from Professor X
Appendix D. The School-friendships of Girls
Appendix E. Countess Sarolta V
Index
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