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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

" Still earlier, in 1676 (as Schouten has pointed out,
_Sexual-Probleme_, January, 1910, p. 66), an Italian priest called
Carretto recognized that homosexual tendencies are innate.
[117] For some account of Ulrichs see _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle
Zwischenstufen_, Bd. i, 1899, p. 36.
[118] Horatio Brown, _John Addington Symonds, a Biography_, vol. ii, p.
344.
[119] Ulrichs scarcely went so far as to assert that both homosexual and
heterosexual love are equally normal and healthy; this has, however, been
argued more recently.
[120] Special mention may be made of _L'Inversion Sexuelle_, a copious and
comprehensive, though sometimes uncritical book by Dr. J. Chevalier,
published in 1893, and the _Perversion et Perversite Sexuelles_ of Dr.
Saint-Paul, writing under the pseudonym of "Dr. Laupts," published in 1896
and republished in an enlarged form, under the title of _L'Homosexualite
et les Types Homosexuels_, in 1910.
[121] Krafft-Ebing set forth his latest views in a paper read before the
International Medical Congress, at Paris, in 1900 (_Comptes-rendus_,
"Section de Psychiatrie," pp.


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