Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
One of the best examples of the fourth degree of homosexuality is
that of Murray Hall, who died in New York City in 1901. Her real name
was Mary Anderson. Born in Scotland, she came to America, where she
lived as a man for thirty years. Her features and her behavior were
so entirely masculine in character that through all these years her
real sex was not even suspected by her closest friends. She became
distinguished as a Tammany politician and as a man about town who
knew how to make money. She associated with politicians, drank to
excess, swore a great deal, smoked and chewed tobacco. She was fond of
pretty girls and liked to associate with them. She entered twice into
matrimonial relations with other inverted women. Her first marriage
ended into separation; the second lasted twenty years and was happy
until the so-called “wife” died. The secret that “Mr.” Hall was really
a woman was not discovered till after her death.
A similar case is that of De Raylan, who was assistant to the Russian
consul in Chicago for twelve years. When he died in December, 1906, it
was found that the assistant was a woman. She smoked constantly and
was possessed of a discriminating taste for liquors with ability to
withstand the effects of drink better than most men. She was married
with the present “Mrs. De Raylan” for the last twelve years after
having been married once before and divorced.
_Transvestism._—The psycho-sexual anomaly of transvestism consists in
the desire for cross-dressing. The male patient has the abnormal desire
to dress like a woman, and the female patient longs to dress like a
man. It is in this respect akin to the anomaly of homosexuality. In the
degrees of effemination and viraginity, cross-dressing is a prominent
symptom. The homosexual pathicus has naturally the impulsive desire to
dress like a woman, and vice versa, the Lesbian woman longs to dress
like a man.
Still, cross-dressing is a pathological entity by itself. Homosexuality
is a morbid sex state of gross somatic experiences. It emanates from
the crude, powerful sensation of sex. The individual’s longings extend
to somatic sensations. These desires often rapidly reach an obsessional
state. Transvestism, on the other hand, is a sexo-esthetic inversion of
pure artistic imitation. Hence it occurs mostly in artists and in men
of letters, i. e., in persons endowed with a highly developed artistic
taste. Such persons are, as a rule, disgusted at the sight of the
organs of the sex to which the individual by anatomical configuration
belongs, while such sights offer to the homosexual individual
additional charm and piquancy.
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