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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

This excited me and, if we had not been at our
destination, I think I would gladly have permitted further
familiarities. He tried to ask me where I lived, but there was no
time to answer, and the female relative who was with me (on
another seat) would no doubt have prevented this from having any
further sequel.
"On more than one occasion I have experienced the sexual orgasm
as the result of mental anxiety. The first time this occurred was
when I was hurrying to avoid being late for school. Another time
was when I was about 24, and was extremely anxious to fill an
appointment for which I was late. So copious was the emission
that I had to go home and change.
"As a medical student, the first reference bearing definitely on
the subject of sexual inversion was made in the class of Medical
Jurisprudence, where certain sexual crimes were alluded to--very
summarily and inadequately--but nothing was said of the existence
of sexual inversion as the 'normal' condition of certain unhappy
people, nor was any distinction drawn between the various
non-normal acts, which were all classed together as
manifestations of the criminal depravity of ordinary or insane
people.


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