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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

In the majority of adult bisexual persons it would seem that the
homosexual tendency is stronger and more organic than the heterosexual
tendency. Bisexuality would thus in a large number of cases be comparable
to ambidexterity, which Biervliet has found to occur most usually in
people who are organically left-handed.[136] While therefore the division
into heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual is a useful superficial
division, it is scarcely a scientific classification.
In the face of these various considerations, and in view of the fact that,
while I feel justified in regarding the histories of my cases as reliable
so far as they go, I have not been always able to explore them
extensively, it has seemed best to me to attempt no classification at all.
The order in which the following histories appear is not, therefore, to be
regarded as possessing any significance.
It may be proper, at this point, to say a few words as to the
reliability of the statements furnished by homosexual persons.
This has sometimes been called in question. Many years ago we
used to be told that inverts are such lying and deceitful
degenerates that it was impossible to place reliance on anything
they said.


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