In such cases, Leppmann
believes, the subject may, through his lack of power, be brought
back to the beginning of his sexual life and to the perhaps
unconsciously homosexual attractions of that age.
With the recognition that homosexuality in youth may be due to an as yet
undifferentiated sexual impulse, homosexuality in mature age to a retarded
development on a congenital basis, and homosexuality in sold age to a
return to the attitude of youth, the area of spurious or "pseudo"
homosexuality seems to me to be very much restricted. Most, perhaps all,
authorities still accept the reality of this spurious homosexuality in
heterosexual persons. But they enter into no details concerning it, and
they bring forward no minutely observed cases in which it occurred.
Hirschfeld, in discussing the diagnosis of homosexuality and seeking to
distinguish genuine from spurious inverts,[134] enumerates three classes
of the latter: (1) those who practise homosexuality for purposes of gain,
more especially male prostitutes and blackmailers; (2) persons who, from
motives of pity, good nature, friendship, etc.
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