The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women — John Shaqi
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and WomenCarpenter, Edward
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The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Carpenter, Edward
Homosexuality; Sex
If now we come to what may be called the more normal type of the
Uranian man, we find a man who, while possessing thoroughly masculine
powers of mind and body, combines with them the tenderer and more
emotional soul-nature of the woman--and sometimes to a remarkable
degree. Such men, as said, are often muscular and well-built, and not
distinguishable in exterior structure and the carriage of body from
others of their own sex; but emotionally they are extremely complex,
tender, sensitive, pitiful and loving, “full of storm and stress, of
ferment and fluctuation” of the heart; the logical faculty may or may
not, in their case, be well-developed, but intuition is always strong;
like women they read characters at a glance, and know, without knowing
how, what is passing in the minds of others; for nursing and waiting on
the needs of others they have often a peculiar gift; at the bottom lies
the artist-nature, with the artist’s sensibility and perception. Such an
one is often a dreamer, of brooding, reserved habits, often a musician,
or a man of culture, courted in society, which nevertheless does not
understand him--though sometimes a child of the people, without any
culture, but almost always with a peculiar inborn refinement. De Joux,
who speaks on the whole favourably of Uranian men and women, says of the
former: “They are enthusiastic for poetry and music, are often eminently
skilful in the fine arts, and are overcome with emotion and sympathy at
the least sad occurrence. Their sensitiveness, their endless tenderness
for children, their love of flowers, their great pity for beggars and
crippled folk are truly womanly.” And in another passage he indicates the
artist-nature, when he says: “The nerve-system of many an Urning is the
finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the service of the
interior personality that can be imagined.”
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