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 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. CHAPTER VII.—CONCLUSIONS. The Prevention of Homosexuality—The Influence of the School—Coeducation—The Treatment of Sexual Inversion—Castration—Hypnotism—Associational Therapy—Psycho-analysis—Mental and Physical Hygiene—Marriage—The Children of Inverts—The Attitude of Society—The Horror Aroused by Homosexuality—Justinian—The Code Napoléon—The State of the Law in Europe Today—Germany—England—What Should be our Attitude Toward Homosexuality? APPENDIX_A.--Homosexuality Among Tramps. APPENDIX B.--The School-friendships of Girls. INDEX OF AUTHORS. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX VOLUME III: Analysis Of The Sexual Impulse; Love And Pain; The Sexual Impulse In Women By Havelock Ellis 1927: Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged CONTENTS PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.