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
“In this country [Britain] we have too long, from a sense of mock
modesty, neglected the science relating to sex. In Germany this is not
so. There we find workers who have elaborated for themselves a new
science, and who have given to the world knowledge which is of the very
utmost importance. We now know that there are females with strong male
characteristics, and _vice-versa_. Anatomically and mentally we find all
shades existing from the pure genus man to the pure genus woman. Thus
there has been constituted what is well named by an illustrious exponent
of the science ‘The Third Sex’.”--Dr. JAMES BURNET, _The Medical Times
and Hospital Gazette_, vol. xxxiv., No. 1497, 10th November, 1906. London.
“Every citizen of age to fulfil his duties as a citizen, whether he be
a father or husband, teacher or pupil, master or servant, official or
subordinate, has the right, and owes it as a duty, to know the facts of
sexual inversion, to combat and to prevent debauchery, crime and vice,
to learn and to teach others the place of inversion in Society, and its
morals, the duties of the invert towards himself, and towards other
inverts, towards the normal man, and towards women and children. And
the duties of the normal man towards the invert are no less--no less
difficult, no less indispensable.”--M. A. RAFFALOVICH, “Uranisme et
Unisexualité.” Paris, 1896.
“That sex inversion is not a chance phenomenon … appears from the
fact that it has been observed at all times and in all places, and
among peoples quite separate from each other.”--A. MOLL, “Die Conträre
Sexualempfindung,” 2nd Edition, p. 15. Berlin, 1893.
“Concerning the wide prevalence of sexual inversion, and of homosexual
phenomena generally, there can be no manner of doubt. In Berlin, Moll
states that he has himself seen between six hundred and seven hundred
homosexual persons, and heard of some two hundred and fifty to three
hundred others. I have much evidence as to its frequency both in England
and the United States. In England, concerning which I can naturally speak
with most assurance, its manifestations are well-marked for those whose
eyes have been opened.… Among the professional and most cultured element
of the middle class in England there must be a distinct percentage of
inverts, which may sometimes be as much as five per cent., though such
estimates must always be hazardous. Among women of the same class the
percentage seems to be at least double--though here the phenomena are
less definite and deepseated.”--HAVELOCK ELLIS, “Psychology of Sex,”
vol. _Sexual Inversion_, pp. 29, 30. Philadelphia, 1901.
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