[14] No actual physical harm need result from an incestuous union. The only effect which seems to be caused is that the characteristics to be hereditarily transmitted are doubled. Thus with only a small grain of insanity in a family the chances of aggravated insanity appearing in the offspring of a brother and sister would be considerable. [15] Spiritual affinity was a bar, so that not only could not godparents marry each other, but there could be no valid unions between a godparent and the child's father or mother. (Geary's _Marriage and Family Relations_.) [16] Some apology must be made for the use of this hybrid term. The unwarrantable confusion of Greek and Latin terminology must, however, be laid at the door of popular use. [17] _Psychology of Sex_; Vol. _Sexual Inversion_. Dr. Hirschfeld in his _Statistischen Vatersuchunge ueber den Prozentensetz der Homosexuellen_, considers that out of 100,000 inhabitants, 94,600 on the average are sexually normal, 1,500 exclusively homosexual, and 3,900 bisexual. [18] The existence of this danger was admitted in a debate in the House of Lords on August 15, 1921, on The Criminal Law Amendment Bill. The Earl of Malmesbury, speaking on a proposal to apply criminal prosecution to homosexual offences among women, declared that "the opportunity for blackmail will be vastly and enormously increased." Other speakers concurred in this view, and it was partly on this ground that the proposal was thrown out. It is hardly necessary to point out that if blackmail would be encouraged by such legislation, it must equally be encouraged by the present law regarding similar offences between males. [19] _The Intermediate Sex._ [20] I cannot enter here into that further theory which may be described as "expression through a phantasy." End of Project Gutenberg's An Outline of Sexual Morality, by Kenneth Ingram