But,
in reality, as we now know, there are all sorts of people, with
all varieties of moral character, to be found among inverts, just
as among normal people. Sadger (_Archiv fuer
Kriminal-Anthropologie_, 1913, p. 199) complains of the "great
insincerity of inverts in not acknowledging their inversion;"
but, as Sadger himself admits, we cannot be surprised at this so
long as inversion is counted a crime. The most normal persons,
under similar conditions, would be similarly insincere. If the
homosexual differ in any respect, under this aspect, from the
heterosexual, it is by exhibiting a more frequent tendency to be
slightly neuropathic, nervously sensitive, and femininely
emotional. These tendencies, while on the one hand they are
liable to induce a very easily detectable vanity, may also lead
to an unusual self-subordination to veracity. On the whole, it
may be said, in my own experience, that the best histories
written by the homosexual compare favorably for frankness,
intelligence, and power of self-analysis with those written by
the heterosexual.
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