The first are the homosexual, whether or not the attraction
springs from genuine inversion. The second are the bisexual, or, as they
were formerly more often termed, following Krafft-Ebing, psycho-sexual
hermaphrodites.[135] There would thus seem to be a broad and simple
grouping of all sexually functioning persons into three comprehensive
divisions: the heterosexual, the bisexual, and the homosexual.
Even this elementary classification seems however of no great practical
use. The bisexual group is found to introduce uncertainty and doubt. Not
only a large proportion of persons who may fairly be considered normally
heterosexual have at some time in their lives experienced a feeling which
may be termed sexual toward individuals of their own sex, but a very large
proportion of persons who are definitely and markedly homosexual are found
to have experienced sexual attraction toward, and have had relationships
with, persons of the opposite sex. The social pressure, urging all persons
into the normal sexual channel, suffices to develop such slight germs of
heterosexuality as homosexual persons may possess, and so to render them
bisexual.
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