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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

CHAPTER VI.—THE THEORY OF SEXUAL INVERSION.

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What is Sexual Inversion?—Causes of Diverging Views—The Theory of Suggestion Unworkable—Importance of the Congenital Element in Inversion—The Freudian Theory—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—Not Operative in the Absence of Predisposition.

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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion, Project Gutenberg eBook #13611

CHAPTER V.—THE NATURE OF SEXUAL INVERSION. CHAPTER VII.—CONCLUSIONS.