Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2: Sexual InversionEllis, Havelock
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2: Sexual Inversion
Ellis, Havelock
Sex; Sex (Psychology)
HISTORY XXXI.--Englishman, independent means, aged 52, married.
His ancestry is of a complicated character. Some of his mother's
forefathers in the last and earlier centuries are supposed to
have been inverted. He remembers liking the caresses of his
father's footmen when he was quite a little boy. He dreams
indifferently about men and women, and has strong sexual feeling
for women. Can copulate, but does not insist on this act; there
is a tendency to refined, voluptuous pleasure. He has been
married for many years, and there are several children by the
marriage.
He is not particular about the class or age of the men he loves.
He feels with regard to older men as a women does, and likes to
be caressed by them. He is immensely vain of his physical beauty;
he shuns _pedicatio_ and does not much care for the sexual act,
but likes long hours of voluptuous communion during which his
lover admires him. He feels the beauty of boyhood. At the same
time he is much attracted by young girls.
He is decidedly feminine in his dress, manner of walking, love of
scents, ornaments, and fine things. His body is excessively
smooth and white, the hips and buttocks rounded. Genital organs
normal. His temperament is feminine, especially in vanity,
irritability, and petty preoccupations. He is much preoccupied
with his personal appearance and fond of admiration; on one
occasion he was photographed naked as Bacchus. He is physically
and morally courageous. He has a genius for poetry and
speculation, with a tendency to mysticism.
He feels the discord between his love for men and society, also
between it and his love for his wife. He regards it as, in part,
at least, hereditary and inborn in him.
HISTORY XXXII.--C.R., physician; age 38. Nationality, Irish, with
a Portuguese strain. "My mother came of an old Quaker family. I
was quite unaware of sexual differences until I was about 14, as
I was carefully kept separate from my sisters and, although from
time to time strange longings which I did not understand
possessed me, I was a virgin in thought and deed until that
period of life.
"When I was 14 a cousin some years older than myself came to stay
with us and shared my bed. To my surprise he took hold of my
penis and rubbed it for a time, when a most pleasant feeling
seized me and increased until a discharge came out of my organ;
he then asked me to do the same to him. We frequently repeated
the process during the following month; I was quite unaware of
any harm resulting.
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